Reproductive health issues in rural Western Kenya

Reproductive Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Van Eijk, Anna M ^a,d   Lindblade, Kim A ^b   Odhiambo, Frank ^c   Peterson, Elizabeth ^d   Sikuku, Evallyne ^c   Ayisi, John G ^c   Ouma, Peter ^c   Rosen, Daniel H ^b   Slutsker, Laurence ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; INSECTICIDE;

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTRACEPTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HELMINTH; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; OBSTETRICS; PARASITEMIA; PLASMODIUM; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; RURAL AREA; UNDERWEIGHT;

EID: 42049108685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17424755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4755-5-1     Document Type: Article

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