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Data References SUDAN Data references : 00253 Eltom AR, Elbushra HE. Results of the baseline survey, Part 3. Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, Sudan; 1984. 00268 Ministry of Health. Sudan Emergency and Recovery Information and Surveillance System Reports of 1986 and 1987. Khartoum, Sudan; 1987. 00445 Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition survey in Red Sea province, Eastern region. Khartoum, Sudan; 1990. 00446 Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition survey North Kordofan. Khartoum, Sudan; 1990. 00447 Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition survey in North Kordofan province, Kordofan region. Khartoum, Sudan; 1990. 00448 Ministry of Health. Reports on the nutrition monitoring programme in the displaced settlements of Greater Khartoum. Khartoum, Sudan; 1991. 00632 Herrera MG, Nestel P, El Amin A, Fawzi WW, Mohamed KA, Weld L. Vitamin A supplementation and child survival. Lancet 1992;340:267-71. 00633 Ministry of Health. 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Khartoum, Sudan; 1993. 01349 Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition survey in Kordofan State. El Obeid, Sudan; 1994. SUDAN Page 1 of 3 WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition 2004-07-15 SUDAN Data references : 01350 Federal Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition monitoring survey in Algezera State. Sudan; 1994. 01351 Federal Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition survey in all Kordofan States. North Kordofan State, Sudan; 1994. 01631 Ministry of Health. Results of health and nutrition survey: Malakal town. Upper Nile State, Sudan, September 1995. 01632 Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition survey in Kassala State. Kassala, Sudan, 1994. 01633 Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition survey in Gedaref State. Gedaref, Sudan, 1995. 01634 Ministry of Health. Report on the nutrition survey in White Nile State. White Nile, Sudan, 1995. 01654 Sudan multiple indicator cluster survey 1995 (MICS). Khartoum, Sudan, 1995. 01694 Ministry of Health. Nutrition assessment survey in camps of displaced people. Adventist Development Relief Agency. Khartoum, Sudan. 01729 Tayeh A, Cairncross S. The impact of dracunculiasis on the nutritional status of children in South Kordofan, Sudan. Annals of Tropical Paediatrics 1996;16;221-226. 01780 Report on nutrition monitoring survey in Al Gadarif State, February 1996. Federal Ministry of Health, National Nutrition Department and Ministry of Health, Nutrition Department. Al Gadarif State, Sudan, 1997. 01933 Creusvaux H, Brown V, Lewis R, Coudert K, Baquet S. Famine in southern Sudan [research letter]. Lancet 1999;354:832. 01977 Federal Ministry of Health, WHO, Ministries of Health/Nutrition Departments of 6 states. Comprehensive nutrition survey. National Nutrition Department. Khartoum, Sudan, 1997 (and additional analysis). 02369 Federal Ministry of Health and Central Bureau of Statistics [Sudan], United Nations Childen's Fund. Multiple indicator cluster survey, 2000: Sudan - final report (MICS 2). Accessed at www.childinfo.org/MICS2/newreports/sudan1/final-MICS%20Sudan.pdf , 30 January 2002 (and additional analysis). Additional references : 00239 Omer HO, Omer MIA, Khalifa OO. Pattern of protein-energy malnutrition in Sudanese children and comparison with some other Middle East countries. Environmental Child Health 1975;Dec:329-333. 00264 Coulter JBS, Suliman GI, Omer MIA, Macfarlane SBJ, Moody JB, Hendrickse RG. Protein-energy malnutrition in northern Sudan: clinical studies. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1988;42:787-796. 00449 Woodruff AW, El Suni A, Kaku M, Adamson EA, Maughan TS, Bundru N. Infants in Juba, Southern Sudan: the first six months of life. Lancet 1983;8344:262-264. 00450 El Samani EFZ, Willett WC, Ware JH. Association of malnutrition and diarrhea in children aged under five years, a prospective follow-up study in a rural Sudanese community. American Journal of Epidemiology 1988;128:93-105. 00451 Abdelwahab MM, Wallace HM. Protein-calorie malnutrition in children in Equatorial region, Sudan. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1990;36:196-198. 00452 Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Second nutrition survey of children under five years of age in Juba town. Equatoria State, Sudan; 1991. 00461 Ross DA, Taylor N, Hayes R, McLean M. Measuring malnutrition in famines: are weight-for-height and arm circumference interchangeable? International Journal of Epidemiology 1990;19:636-645. SUDAN Page 2 of 3 WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition 2004-07-15 SUDAN Additional references : 00581 Dundas ML, Futrell MF. Socio-economic influence on the use of sorghum products and nutritional status of children in Sudan. Nutrition Reports International 1986;33:793-802. 00629 Sukkar MY, Kemm JR, Kardesh M. Age-independent anthropometry: an examination of data from rural Khartoum, Sudan. Annals of Human Biology 1982;9:265-275. 00630 Herwaldt BL, Bassett DC, Yip R, Alonso C, Toole MJ. Crisis in southern Sudan: where is the world [letter]? Lancet 1993;342:119-120. 00690 Zumrawi FY, Dimond H, Waterlow JC. Effects of infection on growth in Sudanese children. Human Nutrition: Clinical Nutrition 1987;41C:453-461. 00917 Ostrowski ZL, Heidrecheid N. Some aspects of nutritional status in the south of the Sudan (preliminary study). Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1982;28:153-158. 00969 Nestel PS, Mascie-Taylor CGN, Mohamed KA, El Amin A. Nutritional status of under-five year olds in north Sudan: 1. differences due to geographical location, age, twin status and feeding practices. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 1992;28:87-103. 00970 Zumrawi FY, Dimond H, Waterlow JC. Faltering in infant growth in Khartoum province, Sudan. Human Nutrition: Clinical Nutrition 1987;41C:383-395. 00972 Harrison GA, Brush G, Zumrawi FY. Interrelations between growth, weaning and disease experience in Khartoum infants. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1992;46:273-278. 01314 Ross DA, Berry AM, Taylor N. Measuring malnutrition in famines (Sudan) [letter]. Lancet 1986;1:151-2. 01763 Fawzi WW, Herrera MG, Willett WC, Nestel P, el-Amin A, Mohamed KA. Dietary vitamin A intake in relation to child growth. Epidemiology 1997;8:402-407. 01772 Fawzi WW, Herrera MG, Willett WC, Nestel P, el-Amin A, Mohamed KA. The effect of vitamin A supplementation on the growth of preschool children in the Sudan. American Journal of Public Health 1997;87:1359-62. 02172 Kossman J, Nestel P, Herrera MG, El Amin A, Fawzi WW. Undernutrition in relation to child infections: a prospective study in the Sudan. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2000;54:463-472. 02194 Fawzi WW, Herrera MG, Spiegelmann DL, el-Amin A, Nestel P, Mohamed KA. A prospective study of malnutrition in relation to child mortality in the Sudan. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1997;65:1062-9. 02214 Kossman J, Nestel P, Herrera MG, El Amin A, Fawzi WW. Undernutrition and childhood infections: a prospective study of childhood infections in relation to growth in the Sudan. Acta Paediatrica 2000;89:1122-8. SUDAN Page 3 of 3 WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition 2004-07-15.
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