The growth chart – a road to health chart? Maternal comprehension of the growth chart in two Somali villages

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 340-350

  Aden, Abdulaziz Sharif ^a   Brännstrom, Inger ^b   Mohamud, Kadigia Ali ^a   Persson, Lars Ake ^b   Wall, Stig ^b  

^a SOMALI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Somalia)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; SOMALIA;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; GROWTH; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MOTHERS; SOMALIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0025073470     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1990.tb00656.x     Document Type: Article

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