Open AccessNutritional status among elderly: A community-based cross-sectional study
Author(s) -
Kriti Vaish,
Somdatta Patra,
Puneet Chhabra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of public health/indian journal of public health
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.381
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2229-7693
pISSN - 0019-557X
DOI - 10.4103/ijph.ijph_150_19
Subject(s) - malnutrition , medicine , environmental health , cross sectional study , marital status , logistic regression , psychological intervention , gerontology , wasting , descriptive statistics , public health , population , statistics , mathematics , nursing , pathology , psychiatry , endocrinology
Malnutrition in the elderly is a significant public health problem and has serious implications on the overall health of the elderly. There are very few community-based studies on malnutrition among the elderly, especially in India.