Overweight, stunting, and anemia are public health problems among low socioeconomic groups in school adolescents (12-15 years) in the North Gaza Strip

Nutrition Research

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 762-771

  Abudayya, Abdallah ^a   Thoresen, Magne ^a   Abed, Yehia ^b   Holmboe Ottesen, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b AL QUDS UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anemia; Gaza Strip; Humans; Nutritional status; Overweight; Palestine; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNDERWEIGHT;

EID: 36448987942     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2007.09.017     Document Type: Article

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