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Drought exposure as a risk factor for child undernutrition in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and assessment of empirical evidence
- Source :
- Environment International, Vol 131, Iss, Pp-(2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier, 2019.
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Abstract
- Background: Droughts affect around 52 million people globally each year, a figure that is likely to increase under climate change. Objectives: To assess the strength of empirical evidence on drought exposure as a risk factor for undernutrition in children
- Subjects :
- 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Scopus
MEDLINE
010501 environmental sciences
Affect (psychology)
01 natural sciences
Child Nutrition Disorders
Thinness
Risk Factors
Environmental health
Global health
Medicine
Humans
Risk factor
Child
Developing Countries
lcsh:Environmental sciences
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
lcsh:GE1-350
business.industry
fungi
food and beverages
medicine.disease
Droughts
Malnutrition
Observational study
Underweight
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01604120 and 18736750
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environment International, Vol 131, Iss, Pp-(2019)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....fb93eb25e0ba73b686e58abbfad543a4