Underweight and overweight in primary school children in eThekwini district in kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

African Journal of Primary Health Care and Family Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Puckree, Threethambal ^a,b   Naidoo, Pooveshni ^a   Pillay, Prabashni ^a   Naidoo, Therona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

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EID: 84861862905     PISSN: 20712928     EISSN: 20712936     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4102/phcfm.v3i1.203     Document Type: Article

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