Management of severe malnutrition in Africa
Author: Yvonne Grellety
Year: 2000
Resource type: Research
A PhD thesis and a major piece of work that contributed to the amendments in the WHO (1999) protocol on SAM to pay attention to the critical points that caused mortality and simplify the rest of the treatment.
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Yvonne Grellety (2000). Management of severe malnutrition in Africa. www.ennonline.net/managementsamafrica