Malnutrition among children in rural Malawian fish-farming households

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 827-833

  Aiga, Hirotsugu ^a,b,c   Matsuoka, Sadatoshi ^d   Kuroiwa, Chushi ^b   Yamamoto, Sachio ^e  

^a JAPAN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d National Maternal and Child Health Center   (Cambodia)

^e System Science Consultants Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Breastfeeding; Fish farming; Malawi; Malnutrition; Nutritional status; Rural area

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAT INTAKE; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PISCICULTURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FISHERIES; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALAWI; MALNUTRITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 67650084790     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.03.028     Document Type: Article

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