Household and community socioeconomic and environmental determinants of child nutritional status in Cameroon

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pongou, Roland ^a,b   Ezzati, Majid ^a   Salomon, Joshua A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAMEROON; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; INCOME; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAMEROON; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 33746472988     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-98     Document Type: Article

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