Poor nutritional health of bedouin preschool children in Jordan: The irony of urbanization

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 301-309

  Khatib, Ibrahim M D ^a   Elmadfa, Ibrahim ^b  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Tocopherol (vitamin E); Bedouins; Ferritin; Hemoglobin; North Badia; Serum retinol concentration; Stunting; Vitamin A; Vitamin A deficiency

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; RETINOL;

ANEMIA; ARAB; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; IRON DEFICIENCY; JORDAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBANIZATION;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARABS; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; INFANT; JORDAN; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; URBANIZATION; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN E DEFICIENCY;

EID: 70349264349     PISSN: 02506807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000239847     Document Type: Article

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