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The anthropometric status of schoolchildren in five countries in the Partnership for Child Development*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

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This paper was presented to the Nutrition Society on behalf of The Partnership for Child Development by Dr Andrew Hall, to whom correspondence should be addressed at the Scientific Coordinating Centre.

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