Maternal undernutrition as proxy indicators of their offspring's undernutrition: Evidence from 2011 Ethiopia demographic and health survey

BMC Nutrition

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Farah, Alinoor Mohamed ^a   Endris, Bilal Shikur ^b   Gebreyesus, Seifu Hagos ^b  

^a JIGJIGA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

BMI; Child; DHS; Ethiopia; Height; Maternal; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85089097842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20550928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40795-019-0281-z     Document Type: Article

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