Prevalence of double burden of malnutrition among urban school going bodo children aged 5-11 years of Assam, Northeast India

Epidemiology Biostatistics and Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Mondal, Nitish ^a   Basumatary, Bardoi ^a   Kropi, Junali ^a   Bose, Kaushik ^b  

^a ASSAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b VIDYASAGAR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Child health status; Malnutrition; Nutrition assessment; Obesity; Public health; Thinness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84951320251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22820930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2427/11497     Document Type: Article

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