Scaling-up access to family planning may improve linear growth and child development in low and middle income countries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Fink, Günther ^a   Sudfeld, Christopher R ^a   Danaei, Goodarz ^a   Ezzati, Majid ^b   Fawzi, Wafaie W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT PREGNANCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE EAST; NORTH AFRICA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH ASIA; STUNTING; ADOLESCENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROWTH DISORDERS; NEWBORN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH INTERVALS; BIRTH ORDER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVERTY; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84904256394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102391     Document Type: Article

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