Impact of Maternal Depression on Infant Nutritional Status and Illness
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- 1 September 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 61 (9) , 946-952
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.61.9.946
Abstract
More than 150 million children under the age of five years in the developingworld are malnourished. Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of allchild deaths worldwide,1 and nutritional deficienciesat all stages of growth have long-term damaging effects on the intellectualand psychological development of children.2,3 Malnutritionthus represents an enormous waste in potential of millions of children.Keywords
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