Role of the employment status and education of mothers in the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infections in Mexican rural schoolchildren

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Quihui, Luis ^a   Valencia, Mauro E ^a   Crompton, David W T ^b   Phillips, Stephen ^b   Hagan, Paul ^b   Morales, Gloria ^a   Díaz Camacho, Silvia P ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN ALIMENTACIÓN Y DESARROLLO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SINALOA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE;

AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; CESTODIASIS; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FAMILY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS; INFECTION RISK; INTESTINE INFECTION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MEXICO; PARASITOSIS; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHURIASIS; TRICHURIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION; ECONOMICS; HEALTH; HYGIENE; HYMENOLEPIASIS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MOTHER; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; GIARDIASIS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYMENOLEPIASIS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MEXICO; MOTHERS; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SCHOOLS;

EID: 33748967924     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-225     Document Type: Article

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