Understanding the geographical burden of stunting in India: A regression-decomposition analysis of district-level data from 2015–16

Maternal and Child Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  Menon, Purnima ^a   Headey, Derek ^a   Avula, Rasmi ^a   Nguyen, Phuong Hong ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

child undernutrition; decomposition analysis; determinants; India; spatial analysis; stunting

Indexed keywords

RETINOL;

AGE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COMPLEMENTARY FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DIET; DISEASE BURDEN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STUNTING; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GROWTH DISORDER; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85053781069     PISSN: 17408695     EISSN: 17408709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mcn.12620     Document Type: Article

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