Severity of Anemia among Children under 36 Months Old in Rural Western China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gao, Wenlong ^a   Yan, Hong ^a   DuolaoWang, ^b   Dang, Shaonong ^a   Pei, Leilei ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNICITY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; NEWBORN; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGE FACTORS; ANEMIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84876519037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0062883     Document Type: Article

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