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Predicting the burden of acute malnutrition in drought-prone regions of Kenya: a statistical analysis

2025-03-20

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<h4>Background</h4> In drought-prone regions, timely and granular predictions of the burden of acute malnutrition could support decision-making. We explored whether routinely collected and/or publicly available data could be used to predict the prevalence of global and severe acute malnutrition, as well as the mean weight-for-height Z-score and middle-upper-arm circumference for age Z-score, in arid- and semi-arid...

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Literature Corpus work: 6060e38b-f5b3-5b84-b085-5c561401d571
DOI: 10.1101/2025.03.19.25324283

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