Relationship of homestead food production with night blindness among children below 5 years of age in Bangladesh

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1627-1631

  Campbell, Ashley A ^a,b   Akhter, Nasima ^c   Sun, Kai ^a   De Pee, Saskia ^b   Kraemer, Klaus ^d   Moench Pfanner, Regina ^e   Rah, Jee H ^d   Badham, Jane ^d,f   Bloem, Martin W ^b   Semba, Richard D ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b World Food Programme   (Italy)

^c HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL   (Bangladesh)

^d Sight and Life   (Switzerland)

^e GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR IMPROVED NUTRITION   (Switzerland)

^f JB Consultancy   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Home garden; Night blindness; Vitamin A

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD NUTRITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GARDENING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTHER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINOL DEFICIENCY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BANGLADESH; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; GARDENING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTHERS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGHT BLINDNESS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY;

EID: 82555187436     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011000693     Document Type: Article

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