Intra-household correlations of nutritional status in rural Ethiopia

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 160-165

  Lindtjørn, Bernt ^a   Alemu, Tadesse ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Families; Famine; Malnutrion

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEASUREMENT; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCREENING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; ETHIOPIA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RURAL POPULATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTHROPOMETRIC DATA; INTRA-HOUSEHOLD INEQUALITY; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 0030620536     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/26.1.160     Document Type: Article

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