The multidimensional background of malnutrition among rural older individuals in Bangladesh a challenge for the Millennium Development Goal

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2270-2278

  Ferdous, Tamanna ^a   Kabir, Zarina Nahar ^b,c   Wahlin, Åke ^d   Streatfield, Kim ^e   Cederholm, Tommy ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c RESEARCH AND EVALUATION DIVISION   (Bangladesh)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladeshi elderly; Burden of disease; Malnutrition; Mini Nutritional Assessment; Poverty

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGING; BANGLADESH; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 74949115309     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009005096     Document Type: Article

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