Environmental conditions, health behavior, and mortality in siblings as risk indicators of night blindness

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-312

  Hussain, Akhtar ^a   Kvale, Gunnar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINATION; NEWBORN; NIGHT BLINDNESS; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; SIBLING;

EID: 0029876416     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.1996.54.309     Document Type: Article

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