The burden of underweight and overweight among women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Tebekaw, Yibeltal ^a,c   Teller, Charles ^b   Colón Ramos, Uriyoán ^b  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Obesity; Overweight; Underweight; Women

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; COST OF ILLNESS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THINNESS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84920862268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1126     Document Type: Article

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