Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of stunting and thinness among Pakistani primary school children

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mushtaq, Muhammad Umair ^a,b   Gull, Sibgha ^a   Khurshid, Usman ^a   Shad, Mushtaq Ahmad ^b   Siddiqui, Arif Mahmood ^a  

^a ALLAMA IQBAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Pakistan)

^b District Health Office Nankana Sahib   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAKISTAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; MALE; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THINNESS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80053172146     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-790     Document Type: Article

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