Women's work in farming, child feeding practices and nutritional status among under-five children in rural Rukwa, Tanzania

British Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 114, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1594-1603

  Nordang, Sunniva ^a   Shoo, Tiransia ^a   Holmboe Ottesen, Gerd ^a   Kinabo, Joyce ^b   Wandel, Margareta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Child feeding practices; Malnutrition; Tanzania; Undernutrition; Women working in farms

Indexed keywords

SUGAR; WATER;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASES; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; STUNTING; TANZANIA; TILLAGE; UNDERWEIGHT; AGRICULTURE; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; DIET; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFANT NUTRITION; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEEDING METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TANZANIA; THINNESS; WOMEN, WORKING; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84945483005     PISSN: 00071145     EISSN: 14752662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007114515003116     Document Type: Article

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