Undernutrition among Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme Children aged 2-6 years of Arambag, Hooghly District, West Bengal, India: A serious public health problem

Italian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 28-33

  Mandal, Gopal Chandra ^a,b   Bose, Kaushik ^b   Bisai, Samiran ^b   Ganguli, Sanjib ^b  

^a BANGABASI COLLEGE   (India)

^b VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Bengalee; Children; India; Stunting; Underweight; Wasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449086257     PISSN: 17237815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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