Health at the borders: Bayesian multilevel analysis of women's malnutrition determinants in Ethiopia

Global Health Action

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Delbiso, Tefera Darge ^a   Rodriguez Llanes, Jose Manuel ^a   Altare, Chiara ^a,b   Masquelier, Bruno ^a   Guha Sapir, Debarati ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b Action Internationale Contre Faim   (France)

Author keywords

conflict; natural disaster; overweight; refugee; underweight

Indexed keywords

EID: 85081555285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v9.30204     Document Type: Article

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