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‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa

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  • Wanga Zembe-Mkabile Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa Southern African Social Policy Research Institute, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rebecca Surender Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • David Sanders School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rina Swart Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vundli Ramokolo Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gemma Wright Southern African Social Policy Research Institute, Cape Town, South Africa Archie Mafeje Research Institute, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Tanya Doherty Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Wanga Zembe-Mkabile; Wanga.Zembe{at}mrc.ac.za
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Zembe-Mkabile W, Surender R, Sanders D, et al
‘To be a woman is to make a plan’: a qualitative study exploring mothers’ experiences of the Child Support Grant in supporting children’s diets and nutrition in South Africa
BMJ Open 2018;8:e019376. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019376

Publication history

  • Received October 10, 2017
  • Revised March 11, 2018
  • Accepted March 16, 2018
  • First published April 24, 2018.
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April 24, 2018
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