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Background: Nutrition plays an important role in child survival and development. Treatment action in the management of child health and nutrition is influenced by perceptions of illness, and gender plays an important role. However, little is known about if and how moderate malnutrition is recognised among lay populations, or how local social norms and intra-household dynamics affect decisions to seek biomedical assistance for nutritional concerns. In this paper we describe how childhood nutri...
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- KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme Strategic Award
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- BioMed Central Publisher's website
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- BMC Public Health Journal website
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- 16
- Chapter number:
- 693
- Publication date:
- 2016-08-02
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1471-2458
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uuid:a2699fa3-4090-4670-acb5-72ada954c7c2
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624286
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- Copyright holder:
- Muraya et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- © 2016 Muraya et al.licensee BioMed Central. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Perceptions of childhood undernutrition among rural households on the Kenyan coast – a qualitative study
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