Nutritional status, body composition and health conditions of the Karen hill tribe children aged 1-6 years in Northern Thailand

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 279-285

  Tienboon, Prasong ^a   Wangpakapattanawong, Prasit ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine Chiang Mai University   (Thailand)

^b CHIANG MAI UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Body composition; Children; Health; Hill tribes; Illness; Intestinal parasitosis; Karen; Micronutrient deficiencies; Nutritional status; PEM (Protein Energy Malnutrition); Thailand

Indexed keywords

ESSENTIAL FATTY ACID;

ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; INTESTINE INFECTION; KWASHIORKOR; MALE; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; THAILAND; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

AVITAMINOSIS; BODY COMPOSITION; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FATTY ACIDS, ESSENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; KWASHIORKOR; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PROTEIN-ENERGY MALNUTRITION; RURAL HEALTH; THAILAND;

ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES;

EID: 34248570641     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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