Severe malnutrition among children under the age of 5 years admitted to a rural district hospital in southern Mozambique
Public health nutr; 16 (9), 2013
Objective: To describe the burden, clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of severe malnutrition in children under the age of 5 years.
Design: Retrospective study of hospital-based data systematically collected from January 2001 to December 2010.
Setting: Rural Mozambican district hospital.
Subj...
Ambulatory Care Facilities, Breast Feeding, Comorbidity, Diarrhea, Hospital Mortality, Hospitalization, Hospitals, District, Population Surveillance, Prevalence, Retrospective Studies, Rural Population, Severity of Illness Index, Protein-Energy Malnutrition/complications, Protein-Energy Malnutrition/epidemiology, Protein-Energy Malnutrition/mortality, Malnutrition/complications, Malnutrition/epidemiology, Malnutrition/mortality, Malaria/parasitology, Mozambique/epidemiology