Growth status and related medical conditions among refugee children in Massachusetts, 1995-1998

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1800-1805

  Geltman, P L ^a   Radin, M ^a   Zhang, Z ^a   Cochran, J ^a   Meyers, A F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; DENTAL CARIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; OBESITY; PARASITISM; REFUGEE; TUBERCULIN TEST; UNITED STATES; USSR; YUGOSLAVIA (PRE-1992);

EID: 0034760135     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.91.11.1800     Document Type: Article

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