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  1. Nutrition Services, United Nations World Food Programme, Rome, Italy

    Martin W. Bloem & Saskia de Pee

  2. Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Martin W. Bloem

  3. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA

    Martin W. Bloem & Saskia de Pee

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Richard D. Semba

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Bloem, M.W., Pee, S.d., Semba, R.D. (2008). How Much Do Data Influence Programs for Health and Nutrition?. In: Semba, R.D., Bloem, M.W., Piot, P. (eds) Nutrition and Health in Developing Countries. Nutrition and Health Series. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-464-3_31

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