Social rank and adult male nutritional status: Evidence of the social gradient in health from a foraging-farming society

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2107-2115

  Reyes García, Victoria ^a,b   McDade, Thomas W ^c   Molina, Jose Luis ^d   Leonard, William R ^c   Tanner, Susan N ^e   Huanca, Tomas ^f   Godoy, Ricardo ^g  

^a INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^f CBIDSI Centro Boliviano de Investigacion y de Desarrollo Socio Integral   (Bolivia)

^g BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BMI; Bolivia; Nutrition; Social gradient; Social rank; Tsimane' Amerindians

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH STATUS; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS;

ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BOLIVIA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; YOUNG ADULT;

BOLIVIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

PRIMATES;

EID: 56649091204     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.029     Document Type: Article

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