Rural-urban disparities in child nutrition in Bangladesh and Nepal

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Srinivasan, Chittur S ^a   Zanello, Giacomo ^b   Shankar, Bhavani ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Child nutrition; Counterfactual decompositions; Developing countries; Nepal; Quantile regression; Rural Urban disparities; Socio economic characteristics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; CHILD NUTRITION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION; MALE; NEPAL; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBANIZATION;

BANGLADESH; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MALE; NEPAL; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84878893661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-581     Document Type: Article

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