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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 undernutrition 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 c...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Public Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Pages:
- 693
- Publication date:
- 2016-08-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-05-26
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- ISSN:
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1471-2458
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pubs:624286
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- pubs:624286
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637377
- Deposit date:
- 2016-08-04
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- Muraya et al
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Notes:
- © 2016 Muraya et al.Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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