Factors associated with the health and nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in Afghanistan: family behaviour related to women and past experience of war-related hardships
Open Access
- 29 August 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 8 (1) , 301
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-301
Abstract
The present study was performed to assess, beyond socio-economic factors, independent associations between the health and nutritional status of children under 5 years old and (1) family behavioural factors related to women with regard to child care and (2) war-related experience by the household of hardships in Afghanistan.Keywords
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