Nutritional status of 2-6 year old children of Kankabati Grampanchayat, Paschim Medinipur District, West Bengal, India

Sri Lanka Journalof Child Health

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 60-64

  Sinha, Nirmalya Kumar ^a   Maiti, Kartik ^a   Samanta, Pradip ^a   Das, Dulal Chandra ^a   Banerjee, Priyanka ^a  

^a Raja Narendra Lal Khan Women's College   (India)

Author keywords

Community health; Preschool children; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865093417     PISSN: 13915452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4038/sljch.v41i2.4392     Document Type: Article

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