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Nutrition and health in the developing world: the Caribbean experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Knox E. Hagley
Affiliation:
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica
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Abstract

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Type
Symposium on ‘Chronic undernutrition: how can nutritionists help?’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1993

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