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- Title
A review of methods to detect cases of severely malnourished children in the community for their admission into community-based therapeutic care programs.
- Authors
Myatt, Mark; Khara, Tanya; Collins, Steve
- Abstract
The complexity and cost of measuring weight-for-height make it unsuitable for use by community-based volunteers. This has led community therapeutic care programs to adopt a two-stage screening and admission procedure in which mid-upper-arm circumference (MUAC) is used for referral and weight-for-height is used for admission. Such a procedure results in many individuals being referred for care on the basis of MUAC but subsequently being refused treatment because they do not meet the weight-for-height admission criterion. This "problem of rejected referrals" has proved to be a major barrier to program uptake.
- Publication
Food and nutrition bulletin, 2006, Vol 27, Issue 3 Suppl, pS7
- ISSN
0379-5721
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/15648265060273S302