Higher maternal education is associated with favourable growth of young children in different countries

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 67, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 595-602

  Lakshman, Rajalakshmi ^a,b   Zhang, Jing ^c   Zhang, Jianduan ^c   Koch, Felix S ^d   Marcus, Claude ^e   Ludvigsson, Johnny ^d   Ong, Ken K ^a,f   Sobko, Tanja ^e,g  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^g Chinese University of Hong Kong   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; GROWTH RATE; MATERNAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL POLICY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHINA; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GROWTH; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INEQUALITIES; MALE; MOTHER; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

GROWTH; INEQUALITIES; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; GROWTH CHARTS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; RURAL POPULATION; SWEDEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884975318     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-202021     Document Type: Article

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