Short-term and long-term associations between household wealth and physical growth: A cross-comparative analysis of children from four low- and middle-income countries

Global Health Action

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Krishna, Aditi ^a   Oh, Juhwan ^b   Lee, Jong Koo ^b   Lee, Hwa Young ^b   Perkins, Jessica M ^c   Heo, Jongho ^d   Ro, Young Sun ^b   Subramanian, S V ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Child nutrition; Life course epidemiology; Poverty; Socioeconomic conditions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPLICATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADOLESCENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84930638425     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v8.26523     Document Type: Article

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