Income inequality and adult nutritional status: Anthropometric evidence from a pre-industrial society in the Bolivian Amazon

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 907-919

  Godoy, Ricardo ^a   Byron, Elizabeth ^b   Reyes García, Victoria ^a   Vadez, Vincent ^a   Leonard, William R ^c   Apaza, Lilian ^d   Huanca, Tomás ^a   Pérez, Eddy ^e   Wilkie, David ^f  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Protección del Medio Ambiente Tarija PROMETA ^*  (Bolivia)

^e Fundación para El Desarrollo de la Ecología   (Bolivia)

^f WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropometrics; Bolivia; Health inequalities; Nutritional status; Social capital; Tsimane' Amerindians

Indexed keywords

HEALTH STATUS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOLIVIA; CAPITAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INDUSTRY; NUTRITION; SCORING SYSTEM; SKINFOLD; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIETY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BOLIVIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; RURAL POPULATION;

AMAZONIA; BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20444419785     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2005.01.007     Document Type: Article

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