Is economic growth associated with reduction in child undernutrition in India?

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Subramanyam, Malavika A ^a   Kawachi, Ichiro ^b   Berkman, Lisa F ^c   Subramanian, S V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MUSCLE ATROPHY; SAMPLE SIZE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; GROWTH DISORDER; INFANT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; WASTING SYNDROME;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INCOME; INDIA; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 79953700583     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000424     Document Type: Article

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