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| Title |
Burden of childhood diseases and malnutrition in a semi-urban slum in southern India
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-13-87 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Rajiv Sarkar, Prabhu Sivarathinaswamy, Bhuvaneshwari Thangaraj, Kulandaipalayam Natarajan Chella Sindhu, Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur, Jayaprakash Muliyil, Vinohar Balraj, Elena N Naumova, Honorine Ward, Gagandeep Kang |
| Abstract |
India has seen rapid unorganized urbanization in the past few decades. However, the burden of childhood diseases and malnutrition in such populations is difficult to quantify. The morbidity experience of children living in semi-urban slums of a southern Indian city is described. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 1 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 1 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 67% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 170 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Peru | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 162 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 33 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 15% |
| Researcher | 20 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 14 | 8% |
| Other | 25 | 15% |
| Unknown | 35 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 42 | 25% |
| Social Sciences | 25 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 19 | 11% |
| Engineering | 7 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 30 | 18% |
| Unknown | 41 | 24% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 March 2014.
All research outputs
#6,782,242
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,098
of 15,466 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#71,897
of 287,717 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#116
of 271 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,881,329 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 70th percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 15,466 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 287,717 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 271 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 56% of its contemporaries.