Predictors of anemia among pregnant women in Westmoreland, Jamaica

Health Care for Women International

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 585-598

  Charles, Alyson M ^a   Campbell Stennett, Dianne ^b   Yatich, Nelly ^a   Jolly, Pauline E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; JAMAICA; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ARM; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAMAICA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953418022     PISSN: 07399332     EISSN: 10964665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07399331003710541     Document Type: Article

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