Health and disease: Exploring the relation between parasitic infections, child nutrition status, and markets

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 221-228

  Tanner, Susan ^a   Leonard, Bill ^b   Godoy, Ricardo ^b   Reyes García, Victoria ^b   Huanca, Tomás ^b   Conde , Ester ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study TAPS   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Amazonia; Bolivia; Hookworm; Market integration

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD NUTRITION; COMMUNITY LIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEMALE; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MALE; MARKET; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PARASITOSIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADOLESCENT; AMERICAN INDIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; HEALTH; HOOKWORM INFECTION; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARCHAEOLOGY; BOLIVIA; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIANS, SOUTH AMERICAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84927913094     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22573     Document Type: Article

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