Toward comprehensive interventions to improve the health of women of reproductive age

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2008, Pages

  Friedman, Jennifer F ^a   Acosta, Luz P ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; MEBENDAZOLE;

BIRTH DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FETUS RISK; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HOOKWORM INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LACTATION; MALARIA; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POVERTY; PREGNANT WOMAN; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SOCIAL STATUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; REPRODUCTION; SAFETY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCTION; SAFETY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 56149122291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000295     Document Type: Note

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