Nutritional status and poverty assessment of vulnerable population groups in Armenia

Sozial- und Praventivmedizin

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 166-176

  Rossi, Laura ^a   Mangasaryan, Nune ^b   Branca, Francesco ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

Armenia; Children; Mothers; Nutritional status; Vulnerability profile

Indexed keywords

TRACE ELEMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ARMENIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL NUTRITION; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNDERWEIGHT; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASTING SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARMENIA; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY SIZE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINOMETRY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOTHERS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POVERTY; REFUGEES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 22844432882     PISSN: 03038408     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-005-3158-7     Document Type: Article

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