Identifying predictors of childhood anaemia in North-East India

Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 462-470

  Dey, Sanku ^a   Goswami, Sankar ^b   Dey, Tanujit ^c  

^a St Anthony's College   (India)

^b GC College   (India)

^c Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaemia; India; Multiple logistic regression; Odds ratio; Wald Test statistic

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; RISK; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RELIGION; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84891823236     PISSN: 16060997     EISSN: 20721315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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