The relationship between mothers' biological and psychological characteristics and their babies' levels of low birth weight

Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 848-854

  Bahri, Mohammad Reza Zarbakhsh ^a   Hosseinian, Simin ^b   Afrooz, Gholamali ^c   Hooman, Heidar Ali ^d  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^d ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Biological characteristics; Low birth weight; Psychological characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864442855     PISSN: 19918178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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