Prevalence and risk factors of anaemia among children aged between 6 months and 14 years in Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Ngesa, Oscar ^a   Mwambi, Henry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MATERNAL ATTITUDE; MOTHER; PREVALENCE; RESPONSE VARIABLE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84912528982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113756     Document Type: Article

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