A systematic assessment of the current capacity to act in nutrition in West Africa: cross-country similarities and differences
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Summary
Nigeria and Ghana emerged as the countries with the greatest capacities to support the expansion of a nutrition workforce, although a significant proportion of their trained nutritionists were not employed in the nutrition sector.
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- article
- Published
- 2014-07-16
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- 36
- References
- 26
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- Open access
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Keywords
Political science
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