Health and adult productivity: The relation between adult nutrition, helminths, and agricultural, hunting, and fishing yields in the Bolivian Amazon

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 123-130

  Tanner, S ^a   Rosinger, A ^a   Leonard, W R ^b   Reyes Garcia V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BOLIVIA; FECES; FEMALE; FISH; HEALTH STATUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; MALE; MANIHOT; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITOLOGY; PLANTAGO; PRODUCTIVITY; RURAL POPULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WORK;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BODY MASS INDEX; BOLIVIA; EFFICIENCY; FECES; FEMALE; FISHES; HEALTH STATUS; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; MANIHOT; MEAT; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PLANTAGO; RURAL POPULATION; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; WORK; YOUNG ADULT;

VERMES;

EID: 84871287045     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.22350     Document Type: Article

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