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Tackling malnutrition: a systematic review of 15-year research evidence from INDEPTH health and demographic surveillance systems

Samuelina S. ArthurINDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana;Department of Demography and Population StudiesUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South AfricaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Bongiwe NyideINDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana;Library DepartmentSystems and Technical Services, Mangosuthu University of Technology, Umlazi, Durban, South Africa;Africa Centre for Health and Population StudiesUniversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Abdramane Bassiahi SouraINDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana;Ouagadougou HDSSISSP, University of Ouagadougou, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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Kathleen KahnINDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana;MRC Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt)School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Umeå Centre for Global Health Research, Division of Epidemiology and Global Health, Department of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
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Mark WestonIndependent ConsultantMwanza, Tanzania
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Osman SankohINDEPTH NetworkAccra, Ghana;School of Public HealthFaculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;Faculty of Public HealthHanoi Medical University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Article: 28298 | Received 20 Apr 2015, Accepted 24 Sep 2015, Published online: 29 Oct 2015

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