Trends in stunting and overweight in Peruvian pre-schoolers from 1991 to 2011: Findings from the Demographic and Health Surveys

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2407-2418

  Urke, Helga Bjornoy ^a   Mittelmark, Maurice B ^a   Valdivia, Martín ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Group for the Analysis of Development Lima   (Peru)

Author keywords

Child overweight; Child stunting; Peru; Trends

Indexed keywords

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; OVERWEIGHT; PERU; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GROWTH CHARTS; GROWTH DISORDERS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PERU; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84910616181     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980014000275     Document Type: Article

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