Public Health Nutrition Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England
Received October 2, 2000; accepted February 5, 2001.
This article is based on a paper presented at the 1st World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., August 9th 2000, for the Symposium “Treatment of severe diarrheal-induced malnutrition.”
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Ann Ashworth, Public Health Nutrition Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, England (e-mail: [email protected]).
This invited review is accompanied by two editorials. Please see Manary M. Protein-energy malnutrition: there is still work to do. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2001;32:519–20, and Briend A. Management of severe malnutrition: efficacious or effective? J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2001;32:521–2.
