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Can We Predict the Burden of Wasting in Crisis-Affected Countries? Findings from Somalia and South Sudan

2022-01-20

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<h4>Background: </h4> Sample surveys are the mainstay of surveillance for wasting in settings affected by crises, but are burdensome and have limited geographical coverage due to insecurity and other access issues. As a possible complement to surveys, we explored a statistical approach to predict the prevalent burden of wasting malnutrition for small population strata in two crisis-affected countries, Somalia (201...

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Literature Corpus work: 7f9f1d09-8a84-575c-a42f-89e9147b9c6f
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1250806/v1

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