Malnutrition: the silent pandemic

Affiliations

¹ International Development Consultant, Nottingham, UK.
² Department of Nutrition and Health, Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil.
³ Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK stefan.unger@ed.ac.uk.

Editorial

Henry E Mark et al. BMJ. 2020.

. 2020 Dec 1:371:m4593.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.m4593.

¹ International Development Consultant, Nottingham, UK.
² Department of Nutrition and Health, Federal University of Vicosa, Vicosa, Brazil.
³ Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
⁴ Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, UK stefan.unger@ed.ac.uk.

Abstract

Healthy diets are a human right and the foundation of just, resilient societies

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