Predictors of low birthweight at the community level

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 296-299

  Ngare, D K ^a   Neumann, C ^b  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

FORECASTING METHOD; MALNUTRITION; RURAL AREA; WEIGHT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; COMMUNITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; KENYA; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL WELFARE; NEWBORN SCREENING; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL STATUS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

KENYA;

EID: 0031771207     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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