ARM CIRCUMFERENCE AND OTHER FACTORS IN CHILDREN AT HIGH RISK OF DEATH IN RURAL BANGLADESH

The Lancet

Volumn 330, Issue 8561, 1987, Pages 725-728

  Briend, André ^a   Wojtyniak, Bogdan ^a   Rowland, MichaelG M ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MEASUREMENT; MORTALITY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIA; BANGLADESH; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD NUTRITION; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEALTH; HEALTH SERVICES; MALNUTRITION; MEASUREMENT; MEDICINE; MORTALITY; NUTRITION; NUTRITION DISORDERS; POPULATION; POPULATION AT RISK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOUTHERN ASIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARM; BANGLADESH; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.;

EID: 0023198498     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(87)91084-1     Document Type: Article

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