Nutritional status of rural children in the Lesotho Highlands

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 680-689

  Jooste, P L ^a   Langenhoven, M L ^a   Kriek, J A ^a   Kunneke, E ^a   Nyaphisi, M ^b   Sharp, B ^a  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b Lesotho Highlands Water Authority   (Lesotho)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RURAL HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONSTRUCTION WORK; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GOITER; HUMAN; IODINATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; KWASHIORKOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MARASMUS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; BIOLOGY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CROSS SECTIONAL ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; DISEASES; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; HEALTH; INFANT NUTRITION; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITION; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITION INDEXES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; RURAL POPULATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING; YOUTH;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GOITER; HUMANS; LESOTHO; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RURAL HEALTH;

LESOTHO;

EID: 0031428640     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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