Socio-Economic Inequality of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in Bangladesh

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Biswas, Tuhin ^a   Islam, Md Saimul ^a   Linton, Natalie ^b   Rawal, Lal B ^a,c  

^a Health Systems and Populations Studies Division   (Bangladesh)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BODY MASS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREHYPERTENSION; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNDERWEIGHT; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; ECONOMICS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PREDIABETIC STATE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

BANGLADESH; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDIABETIC STATE; PREHYPERTENSION; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85002251279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0167140     Document Type: Article

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