Effect of Dezful’s Day Care Center interventional program to fight malnutrition and improvement of anthropometric indices among preschool children

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Pegah  Rahbarinejad ¹ (Department of Nutrition, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Maryam  Mohamdpour ² (Department of Nutrition, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Mina  Minaie ³ (Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition & Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran | Community Nutrition Improvement Office of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran)
Farideh  Nazari ⁴ (Department of Nutrition, Health Deputy, Bushehr University of Medical Sciences, Bushehr, Iran)
Zahra  Abdollahi ⁵ (Community Nutrition Improvement Office of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran)
Ahmadreza  Dorosty Motlagh ⁶ (Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition & Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2018-06-20 Accepted : 2018-08-26 Published : 2018-09-01

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