Relationships between undernutrition prevalence among children and adult women at national and subnational level

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1112-1120

  Nube M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adults; Body mass index; Children; Developing countries; Poverty; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASIA; BODY MASS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALNUTRITION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ANTHROPOMETRY; ASIA; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LATIN AMERICA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION DISORDERS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 27144520928     PISSN: 09543007     EISSN: 14765640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602220     Document Type: Article

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