A comparative study on nutritional status of urban and rural early adolescent school girls of West Bengal, India

Journal of Nepal Paediatric Society

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 169-174

  Maiti, Soumyajit ^a,b   Ali, Kazi Monjur ^a   De, Debasis ^a   Bera, Tushar Kanti ^a   Ghosh, Debidas ^a,b   Paul, Shyamapada ^a,b  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b Rural Research Institute of Physiology and Applied Nutrition RRIPAN   (India)

Author keywords

Early adolescent girls; Nutritional status; Rural; Urban

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INDIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 80053366930     PISSN: 19907974     EISSN: 19907982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3126/jnps.v31i3.5352     Document Type: Article

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