Feasibility and diagnostic accuracy of using armband mid-upper arm circumference as a simple screening tool for maternal wasting in rural India

Rural and Remote Health

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Sethi, Vani ^a   Parhi, Rabi N ^a   Dar, Shivani ^a   Agrawal, Sutapa ^b  

^a UNICEF   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY MASS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; RURAL POPULATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; BODY MASS INDEX; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; MALNUTRITION; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85039960613     PISSN: 14456354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22605/RRH4221     Document Type: Letter

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