Seasonal pattern of morbidities in preschool slum children in Lucknow, North India

Indian Pediatrics

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 987-993

  Awasthi, Shally ^a,b   Pande, Vinod Kumar ^a  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Community based; Morbidity; Primary health care; Under fives

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIARRHEA; DISEASES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDIA; INFANT; JUVENILE; MALE; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESEARCH REPORT; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; SKIN DISEASE; SLUMS; SOUTHERN ASIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ASIA; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASES; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; INDIA; INFANT; MORBIDITY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESEARCH REPORT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SLUMS; SOUTHERN ASIA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION; YOUTH;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INDIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY AREAS; SEASONS; SKIN DISEASES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0031267769     PISSN: 00196061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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