Estimated prevalence and predictors of undernutrition among children aged 5-17 months in Yerevan, Armenia

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1046-1053

  Hovhannisyan, Lilit ^a   Demirchyan, Anahit ^a   Petrosyan, Varduhi ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Armenia; Child undernutrition; Predictors; Yerevan

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMENIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WASTING SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ARMENIA; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL CLASS; THINNESS; WASTING SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897488880     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013001171     Document Type: Article

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