Household food insecurity access: A predictor of overweight and underweight among Kenyan women

Agriculture and Food Security

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Keino, Susan ^a,b   Plasqui, Guy ^c   van den Borne, Bart ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dietary diversity and women; Food insecurity access; Overweight; Underweight

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006041102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20487010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2048-7010-3-2     Document Type: Article

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