Exploring the paradox: Double burden of malnutrition in rural south africa

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kimani Murage, Elizabeth W ^a,b  

^a AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Double burden of malnutrition; HIV; low and middle income countries; Metabolic disease risk; Nutrition transition; Obesity; Overweight; South Africa; Stunting; Underweight; Wasting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOUBLE BURDEN OF MALNUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES; MALE; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC DISEASE RISK; NUTRITION TRANSITION; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING;

DOUBLE BURDEN OF MALNUTRITION; HIV; LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES; METABOLIC DISEASE RISK; NUTRITION TRANSITION; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SOUTH AFRICA; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; YOUNG ADULT;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880451423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.19249     Document Type: Review

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