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Effective public health policy and practice responses to nutrition depend on an accurate understanding of malnutrition and its implications.
Public health initiatives should focus on educating stakeholders about malnutrition and its effects.
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Effective public health policy and practice responses to nutrition depend on an accurate understanding of the problem of ‘malnutrition’, its implications for human health, and its underlying causes.
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Food and nutrition
Roger Shrimpton et al. · 2021
DOI 10.1093/med/9780198816805.003.0013
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