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Perceptions of childhood undernutrition among rural households on the Kenyan coast – a qualitative study
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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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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s12889-016-3157-z
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KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme Strategic Award
Bibliographic Details
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- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Public Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Publication date:
- 2016-08-02
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-23
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1471-2458
- Source identifiers:
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624286
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- 2016-05-27
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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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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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