Double burden of malnutrition: Increasing overweight and obesity and stall underweight trends among Ghanaian women

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Doku, David Teye ^a   Neupane, Subas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE COAST   (Ghana)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ghanaian women; Malnutrition; Obesity; Overweight; Trends; Underweight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BODY MASS INDEX; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; THINNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938842428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2033-6     Document Type: Article

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