Social, economic, health and environmental determinants of child nutritional status in three Central Asian Republics
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Social, economic, health and environmental determinants of child nutritional status in three Central Asian Republics.
OBJECTIVE To investigate the comparative effect of social, economic, health and environmental characteristics on the nutritional status of children aged <3 years in Central Asia. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis using data from Demographic and Health Surveys. SETTING Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. SUBJECTS Information on demographic health was gathered by Macro International Inc., ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Public Health Nutrition
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1368-9800,1475-2727
DOI: 10.1017/s1368980009004790