Measuring socioeconomic status in multicountry studies: Results from the eight-country MAL-ED study

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Psaki, Stephanie R ^a,b   Seidman, Jessica C ^a,b   Miller, Mark ^a   Gottlieb, Michael ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar A ^c   Ahmed, Tahmeed ^d   Ahmed, AM S ^d   Bessong, Pascal ^e   John, Sushil M ^f   Kang, Gagandeep ^f   Kosek, Margaret ^b   Lima, Aldo ^g   Shrestha, Prakash ^h   Svensen, Erling ^i,j   Checkley, William ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d International Centers for Diarrheal Disease Research   (Bangladesh)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

^f CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^h TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^j HAYDOM LUTHERAN HOSPITAL   (Tanzania)

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Author keywords

Child growth; Classification; Measurement; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CHILD HEALTH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; POVERTY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SANITATION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BODY HEIGHT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INSECURITY; HEIGHT FOR AGE Z SCORE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; MALE; MOTHER; MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY INDEX; NEPAL; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAKISTAN; PERU; POVERTY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM FOREST; SANITATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; SOUTH AFRICA; STUNTING; TANZANIA; VALIDATION PROCESS; WAMI INDEX; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84897986964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-12-8     Document Type: Article

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