Health profile of Bedouin children living at South Sinai

Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1009-1014

  Yamamah, Gamal Abdel Nasser ^a   Salama Hassan, Hassan M ^a   Salama, Emad Eldin Ezzat ^a   Granem, Kadri Zaki ^a   Hassan, Magdy Aly ^b   Hussein, Mohammed Zaki ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b National Center for Sociological and Criminological Research Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bedouin; Malabsorption; Nutrition; Sinai; Stunting; Urine

Indexed keywords

OXALIC ACID; URATE; XYLOSE;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARAB; ARTICLE; ASCARIS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EATING HABIT; ECOLOGY; EGYPT; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HEALTH STATUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; HYMENOLEPIS DIMINUTA; HYMENOLEPIS NANA; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE INFECTION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALABSORPTION; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARASITOSIS; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SKIN DISEASE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STUNTING SYNDROME; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WASTING SYNDROME; XYLOSE TEST;

EID: 37349103843     PISSN: 16824474     EISSN: 18125727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jms.2007.1009.1014     Document Type: Article

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