Overall burden of under-nutrition measured by a Composite Index in rural pre-school children in Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India

Anthropological Review

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 109-116

  Acharya, Atanu ^a   Mandal, Gopal Chandra ^b   Bose, Kaushik ^a  

^a VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b BANGABASI COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure; India; Rural pre school children; Under nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897544717     PISSN: 18986773     EISSN: 20834594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/anre-2013-0005     Document Type: Article

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