Early childhood growth and development in rural Guatemala

Early Human Development

Volumn 82, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 425-433

  Kuklina, Elena V ^a   Ramakrishnan, Usha ^b   Stein, Aryeh D ^b   Barnhart, Huiman H ^c   Martorell, Reynaldo ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Early childhood; Growth

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GROWTH; GUATEMALA; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; RATING SCALE; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; GUATEMALA; HEAD; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, SMALL FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 33745493137     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2005.10.018     Document Type: Article

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