Prevalence of anemia in schoolchildren in the Amazon area of Ecuador;Prevalencia de anemia en escolares de la zona Amazónica de Ecuador

Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 355-361

  Quizhpe, Edy ^a   San Sebastián, Miguel ^a   Hurtig, Anna Karin ^a   Llamas, Ana ^a  

^a Inst Epidemiol/Salud Com M A   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROCYTE PROTOPORPHYRIN; HEMOGLOBIN; ZINC;

ANEMIA; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECUADOR; ENTAMOEBA; FECES ANALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INFESTATION; IRON ABSORPTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON INTAKE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALNUTRITION; PARASITISM; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECUADOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0041989620     PISSN: 10204989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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