Environmental predictors of stunting among children under-five in Somalia: cross-sectional studies from 2007 to 2010.

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Published in BMC Public Health on July 28, 2016

Authors

Damaris K Kinyoki1, James A Berkley2,3, Grainne M Moloney4, Elijah O Odundo5, Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala6,7,8, Abdisalan M Noor9,3

Author Affiliations

1: INFORM Project, Spatial Health Metrics Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. DKinyoki@kemri-wellcome.org.
2: Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre for Geographic Medicine Research (coast), Kilifi, Kenya.
3: Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, CCVTM, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK.
4: Nutrition Section, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Kenya Country Office, UN Complex Gigiri, Nairobi, Kenya.
5: Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) - Somalia, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Ngecha Road Campus, Nairobi, Kenya.
6: Warwick Medical School, Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Warwick, Warwick Evidence, Gibbet Hill, CV4 7AL, Coventry, UK.
7: Department of Mathematics and Information sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Environment, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK.
8: Department of Population Health, Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH), 1A-B, rue Thomas Edison, L-1445, Strassen, Luxembourg.
9: INFORM Project, Spatial Health Metrics Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.

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