The shape of things to come? Household dependency ratio and adolescent nutritional status in rural and urban Ethiopia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 643-652

  Hadley, Craig ^a   Belachew, Tefera ^b   Lindstrom, David ^c   Tessema, Fasil ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Africa; Demographic transition; Dependency ratio; Human capital; Nutritional status

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENDER; HOUSEHOLD DEPENDENCY RATIO; HUMAN; INCOME; INFANT; INVESTMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ETHIOPIA; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; WORK;

EID: 79952762694     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21463     Document Type: Article

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