Socioeconomic status, anthropometric status, and psychomotor development of Kenyan children from resource-limited settings: A path-analytic study

Early Human Development

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 613-621

  Abubakar, Amina ^a,b   Van de Vijver, Fons ^b,c   Van Baar, Anneloes ^b   Mbonani, Leonard ^a   Kalu, Raphael ^a   Newton, Charles ^a,d   Holding, Penny ^a,e,f  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f African Mental Health Foundation   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR DEVELOPMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; UNDERWEIGHT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 50649111642     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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