Risk factors for chronic undernutrition among children in India: Estimating relative importance, population attributable risk and fractions

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue , 2016, Pages 165-185

  Corsi, Daniel J ^a   Mejía Guevara, Iván ^b   Subramanian, S V ^b,c  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Growth and development; India; Risk factors; Socioeconomic status; Stunting; Undernutrition; Underweight

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; RETINOL;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD HEALTH; DIET; GROWTH RATE; MALNUTRITION; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOME SAFETY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SALT INTAKE; SANITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; VACCINATION; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROWTH DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; ODDS RATIO; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNDERWEIGHT;

INDIA;

CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; THINNESS;

EID: 84949488239     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.014     Document Type: Article

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