An accelerated nutrition transition in Iran

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 1 A, 2002, Pages 149-155

  Ghassemi, Hossein ^a   Harrison, Gail ^b   Mohammad, Kazem ^c  

^a National Study on Food and Nutrition Security in Iran   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Food consumption; Iran; Nutrition transition; Obesity; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; IRAN; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATERING SERVICE; ENDEMIC GOITER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; GOITER, ENDEMIC; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; NUTRITION POLICY; OBESITY; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 0036463893     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2001287     Document Type: Review

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