Rates of common communicable illnesses in non-anaemic 12-24 month old South Island, New Zealand children

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 1290, 2009, Pages 24-35

  Cross, Andrea J ^a   Heath, Anne Louise M ^b   Ferguson, Elaine L ^c   Gray, Andrew R ^b   Szymlek Gay, Ewa A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; EAR INFECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEW ZEALAND; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; TOOTH ERUPTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; INTERVENTION STUDY; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

IRON DERIVATIVE; ZINC;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDIES; IRON COMPOUNDS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOOTH ERUPTION; ZINC;

EID: 64049099135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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