Teenage birth leads to short stature and anemia: Evidence from a longitudinal study of 10,000 girls in India
Objectives: Home to one in five adolescents globally and a tradition of marrying young, India faces a huge challenge of teenage births. Early birth can be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the teenage mother and her child, but few studies have followed teenage girls over time to understand...
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| Format: | Abstract |
| Language: | Inglés |
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American Society for Nutrition
2021
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142426 |
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