Maternal determinants of birth weight in Northern Ghana

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Abubakari, Abdulai ^a,b   Kynast Wolf, Gisela ^a   Jahn, Albrecht ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (Ghana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MATERNAL DETERMINANT; PREGNANCY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN AREA; WEIGHT GAIN; ADOLESCENT; INFANT; MALE; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; OVERWEIGHT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SOCIAL CLASS; THINNESS; WEIGHT GAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84943172904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135641     Document Type: Article

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