The double burden household in sub-Saharan Africa: Maternal overweight and obesity and childhood undernutrition from the year 2000: Results from World Health Organization Data (WHO) and Demographic Health Surveys (DHS)

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wojcicki, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MOTHER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; DEMOGRAPHY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MOTHERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84920855050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1124     Document Type: Review

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