Clinic-based data on malnutrition are the most readily available for following malnutrition levels and trends in most countries, but there is a bias inherent in clinic-based estimates of malnutrition rates. The authors compare annual clinic-based malnutrition data and those from four household surveys in Jamaica. The clinic data give lower estimates of malnutrition than the survey data in all four cases - significantly so in three. The size of the...
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1991/04/30
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Documento de trabalho sobre pesquisa de políticas
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WPS649
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2010/07/01
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An observation on the bias in clinic-based estimates of malnutrition rates
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estimate of malnutrition
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