Change in mean height of thai military recruits from 1972 through 2006

Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 196-201

  Seubsman, Sam ang ^a   Sleigh, Adrian C ^b  

^a SUKHOTHAI THAMMATHIRAT OPEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adult height; Health transition; Military recruits; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLDIER; STATISTICS; THAILAND;

BODY HEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THAILAND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68549135069     PISSN: 09175040     EISSN: 13499092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2188/jea.JE20081018     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Seubsman S, Vilainerun D, Khamann S, Somboonsook B, Prapamontol T. Look back study on the Thai Health-Risk Transition. Nonthaburi: Sukhothai Open University Press; 2007.
2. Wibulpolprasert S. Thailand health profile 2001-2004. Bangkok: Ministry of Public Health; 2005.
3. Cohen PT. Public health in Thailand: Changing medical paradigms and disease patterns in political and economic context. In: Lewis M, MacPherson KL, editors. Public health in Asia and the Pacic: historical and comparative perspectives. London: Routledge; 2008. p. 106-121.
4. Tangcharoensathien V, Harnvoravongchai P, Pitayarangsarit S, Kasemsup V. Health impacts of rapid economic changes in Thailand. Soc Sci Med. 2000;51:789-807.
5. Warr P. The Thai economy in transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1993.
6. Carmichael GA. Demographic disequilibrium in early twentieth century Thailand: falling mortality, rising fertility, or both. Asian Popul Stud. 2008;4:161-76.
7. Sleigh AC, Seubsman SA, Bain C; The Thai Cohort Study Team. Cohort profile: the Thai cohort of 87 134 open university students. Int J Epidemiol. 2008;37:266-72.
8. Floud R, Wachter K, Gregory A. Height, health and history. Nutritional status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1990.
9. Leitch I. Growth and health. Int J Epidemiol. 2001;30:212-6.
10. Bunnag S, Piampiti S. Average weights by height of Thai adults. J Med Assoc Thai. 1979;62:579-88.
11. Smith BJ, Hauck HM. Growth in height and weight of Thai infants and young children, Bang Chan, 1952-1954. J Trop Pediatr. 1961;7:55-65.
12. Hauck HM, Thorangkul D, Rajatasilpin A. Growth in height and weight of elementary school children (with some observations on health and nutritional status in Bang Chan, Thailand 1952-55). J Trop Pediatr. 1960;6:84-91.
13. Warr P. Thailand beyond the crisis. Oxford: Routledge; 2005.
14. Bhunbhu T. Expanded Programme on Immunization in Thailand. Rev Infect Dis. 1989;11 Suppl 3:S514-7.
15. Phonboon K, Ramaboot S, Kunasol P, Preuksaraj S. Thailand Expanded Program on Immunisation: a ten-years review of coverage on impact on EPI target diseases. Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 1989;20:529-40.
16. Bogin B. Pattern of human growth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1988.
17. Komlos J, Baten J. Looking backward and looking forward: Anthropometric research and the development of social science history. Department of Economics, University of Munich 2003, Discussion papers in Economics 2003-15. Available at: http://epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59 (Accessed 4 January 2009).
18. Dasgupta P. An inquiry into well-being and destitution. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1993.
19. United Nations Development Program 2006 Human Development Report. Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and Global Water Crisis. Available at: http://hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2006/ (Accessed 4 January 2009).
20. Gunnell D. Commentary: early insights into height, leg, length, proportionate growth and health. Int J Epidemiol. 2001;30:221-2.