Heights and weights of primary school children of different social background in Ankara, Turkey

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 297-300

  Nebigil, I ^a   Hizel, S ^b,d   Tanyer, G ^a   Dallar, Y ^a   Coskun, T ^c  

^a Ankara State Hospital   (Turkey)

^b Cankaya Mother Child Hlth Fam P   (Turkey)

^c HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATISTICS; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SCHOOL; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURKEY (BIRD); TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0030657869     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/43.5.297     Document Type: Article

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