Nutritional and socio-economic determinants of cognitive function and educational achievement of Aboriginal schoolchildren in rural Malaysia

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1100-1106

  Al Mekhlafi, Hesham M ^a,b   Mahdy, Mohammed A ^a,b   Sallam, Atiya A ^a   Ariffin, W A ^a   Al Mekhlafi, Abdulsalam M ^a   Amran, Adel A ^c   Surin, Johari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal schoolchildren; Cognitive function; Educational achievement; Nutrition; Socio economic status

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ABORIGINE; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALAYSIA; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREDICTION; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SOCIOECONOMICS; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; FECES; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PARASITOLOGY; PARASITOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RURAL POPULATION;

VERMES;

CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING; MALAYSIA; MALE; NUTRITION DISORDERS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITIC DISEASES; POPULATION GROUPS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84856388604     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114511001449     Document Type: Article

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