Growth and nutritional status of pre-school children in India: Rural-Urban and gender differences

Collegium Antropologicum

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-21

  Bharati, Premananda ^a   Bharati, Susmita ^a   Pal, Manoranjan ^a   Chakrabarty, Suman ^a   Som, Suparna ^a   Gupta, Ranjan ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Growth; India; Nutritional status; Pre school children; Rural Urban and gender differences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGY PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 65649109330     PISSN: 03506134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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