Under-nutrition among slum children aged 3-6 years in midnapore town, India

Internet Journal of Biological Anthropology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Bisai, Samiran ^a   Bose, Kaushik ^a   Dikshit, Swapon ^a  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Children; India; Slum; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 75449098707     PISSN: 19394594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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