Child malnutrition in Haiti: progress despite disasters
Open Access
- 20 November 2013
- journal article
- Published by Johns Hopkins School Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs in Global Health: Science and Practice
- Vol. 1 (3), 389-396
- https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-13-00069
Abstract
Despite a devastating earthquake and a major cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010, surveys in 2006 and 2012 document marked reductions in child undernutrition. Intensive relief efforts in nutrition as well as synergies and improvements in various sectors before and after the earthquake were likely contributing factors.Keywords
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