Household food (in)security and nutritional status of urban poor children aged 6 to 23 months in Kenya.

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Published in BMC Public Health on October 13, 2015

Authors

Maurice Mutisya1,2, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala3,4, Moses Waithanji Ngware5,6, Caroline W Kabiru7,8

Author Affiliations

1: African Population and Health Research Center, P.O Box 10787 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya. mmutisya@aphrc.org.
2: University of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, 27 St Andrews Road, Johannesburg, Parktown 2193, South Africa. mmutisya@aphrc.org.
3: Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health, 1A-B, rue Thomas Edison, L-1445 Strassen, Strassen, Luxembourg. Ngianga-Bakwin.Kandala@lih.lu.
4: Department of Mathematics and Information sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Ngianga-Bakwin.Kandala@lih.lu.
5: African Population and Health Research Center, P.O Box 10787 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya. mngware@aphrc.org.
6: University of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, 27 St Andrews Road, Johannesburg, Parktown 2193, South Africa. mngware@aphrc.org.
7: African Population and Health Research Center, P.O Box 10787 - 00100, Nairobi, Kenya. carolinekabiru@gmail.com.
8: University of the Witwatersrand, School of Public Health, 27 St Andrews Road, Johannesburg, Parktown 2193, South Africa. carolinekabiru@gmail.com.

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