Factors affecting malnutrition in children and the uptake of interventions to prevent the condition

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tette, Edem M A ^a,b   Sifah, Eric K ^b   Nartey, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b Princess Marie Louis Children's Hospital   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Children; Diarrhoea; Interventions; Malnutrition; Prevention; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ANTIHELMINTHIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIARRHEA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FAMILY INCOME; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORBIDITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; POSTNATAL CARE; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; WEIGHT FOR HEIGHT; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; GHANA; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; MOTHER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GHANA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT NUTRITION DISORDERS; MALE; MOTHERS; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84947318944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12887-015-0496-3     Document Type: Article

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