Anaemia is associated with reduced productivity of women workers even in less-physically-strenuous tasks

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-57

  Scholz, Barbara D ^a   Gross, Rainer ^b,c   Schultink, Werner ^b   Sastroamidjojo, Soemilah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA   (Indonesia)

^b Financial Systems Development Section   (Germany)

^c NONE   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Nutritional status; Physical work capacity

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; WORK CAPACITY;

EID: 0030926734     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0007114500002877     Document Type: Article

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