Social determinants of malnutrition among Serbian children aged <5 years: ethnic and regional disparities

International Journal of Public Health

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 697-706

  Brcanski, Jelena ^a   Jović Vraneš, Aleksandra ^b   Marinković, Jelena ^b   Favre, Dragana ^c  

^a National Health Insurance Fund   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Malnutrition; Poverty; Regional disparities; Roma

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; ROMANI (PEOPLE); RURAL POPULATION; SERBIA; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GYPSIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SERBIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84919869314     PISSN: 16618556     EISSN: 1420911X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-014-0591-5     Document Type: Article

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