Household food (in)security and nutritional status of urban poor children aged 6 to 23 months in Kenya Global health

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mutisya, Maurice ^a,b   Kandala, Ngianga Bakwin ^c,d   Ngware, Moses Waithanji ^a,b   Kabiru, Caroline W ^a,b  

^a AFRICAN POPULATION AND HEALTH RESEARCH CENTER   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^d NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child health; Food (in)security; Kenya; Malnutrition; Nairobi; Stunting; Urban poor; Wealth status

Indexed keywords

CATERING SERVICE; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMAN; HUNGER; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; MOTHER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD SUPPLY; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; HUNGER; INFANT; KENYA; MALE; MOTHERS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84944072167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2403-0     Document Type: Article

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