Relationship between household wealth inequality and chronic childhood under-nutrition in Bangladesh

International Journal for Equity in Health

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hong, Rathavuth ^a   Banta, James E ^a   Betancourt, Jose A ^b  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army Medical Department Center & School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BREAST FEEDING; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOOD PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 33845621466     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14759276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-5-15     Document Type: Article

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