Recent illness, feeding practices and father's education as determinants of nutritional status among preschool children in a rural Nigerian community

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 92-99

  Balogun, Titilola B ^a   Yakubu, Alhassan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Malnutrition; Preschool children

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; MEASLES VACCINE; ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CHILD; DIARRHEA; EDUCATION; FATHER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASLES; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NIGERIAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; POLIOMYELITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL STATUS; STUNTING; UNDERWEIGHT; WASTING SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY WEIGHT; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFANT; MOTHER; NIGERIA; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FATHERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; MALE; MOTHERS; NIGERIA; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THINNESS;

EID: 84926432254     PISSN: 01426338     EISSN: 14653664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmu070     Document Type: Article

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