Nutrition status, education participation, and school achievement among Kenyan middle-school children

Nutrition

Volumn 19, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 612-616

  Mukudi, Edith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Achievement; Education; Kenya; Nutrition status; School attendance

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KENYA; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

EID: 0038721899     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(03)00037-6     Document Type: Article

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