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Economic and geographical factors

Influencing child malnutrition in the Southern highlands, Tanzania

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Trondheim, N-7000, Trondheim, Norway

    O. Jakobsen (Lecturer)

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This study is based on data collected during field surveys in 1975 and 1977, and presented in Bralup Research Paper No. 52, University of Dar es Salaam.

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Jakobsen, O. Economic and geographical factors. GeoJournal 2, 355–376 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00219285

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