Malnutrition and high childhood mortality among the Onge tribe of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-25

  Rao, V G ^a   Sugunan, A P ^a   Murhekar, M V ^a   Sehgal, S C ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman and Nicobar; Childhood mortality; Malnutrition; Onges; Tribe

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INTESTINE PARASITE; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SURVIVAL RATE; WATER SUPPLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MICRONUTRIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33645236932     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2005761     Document Type: Article

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