Nutrition
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 188-193 , February 2011

Effects of a school feeding intervention on school attendance rates among elementary schoolchildren in rural Kenya

  • Edith Mukudi Omwami, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • University of California at Los Angeles, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding Author. Tel.: (310) 825-1791; fax: (310) 206-6293.
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  • Charlotte Neumann, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • University of California at Los Angeles, School of Public Health-CHS, Los Angeles, California, USA
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  • Nimrod O. Bwibo, M.D., M.P.H.

      Affiliations

    • University of Nairobi, School of Medicine, Nairobi, Kenya

Received 23 April 2009 ,Accepted 8 January 2010.

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Nutrition
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 188-193 , February 2011

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