Burden of childhood diseases and malnutrition in a semi-urban slum in southern India

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Sarkar, Rajiv ^a   Sivarathinaswamy, Prabhu ^a   Thangaraj, Bhuvaneshwari ^a   Sindhu, Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Chella ^a   Ajjampur, Sitara Swarna Rao ^a   Muliyil, Jayaprakash ^a   Balraj, Vinohar ^a   Naumova, Elena N ^a,b   Ward, Honorine ^a,c   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b Tufts University   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Incidence; India; Longitudinal study; Morbidity; Slum

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; WATER SUPPLY;

CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; MORBIDITY; POVERTY AREAS; URBAN HEALTH; WATER SUPPLY;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873053028     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-87     Document Type: Article

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