Demographic, socioeconomic, and health characteristics of the MAL-ED network study site in rural Pakistan

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 59, Issue , 2014, Pages S304-S309

  Turab, Ali ^a   Soofi, Sajid B ^a   Ahmed, Imran ^a   Bhatti, Zaid ^a   Zaidi, Anita K M ^a   Bhutta, Zulfiqar Ahmad ^b  

^a Department of Paediatrics and Child Health ^*  (India)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

birth cohort; child heath; demographics; MAL ED; Pakistan

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; COOKING; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EDUCATION; ELECTRICITY; FEEDING; FERTILITY; HAND WASHING; HEALTH; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MALNUTRITION; MARRIAGE; MATERNAL AGE; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PAKISTAN; PARITY; PRELACTEAL FEEDING; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SANITATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS; ADULT; CHILD WELFARE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PAKISTAN; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84913546217     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu391     Document Type: Article

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