TY - JOUR AU - Efevbera, Yvette AU - Bhabha, Jacqueline AU - Farmer, Paul AU - Fink, Günther PY - 2019 DA - 2019/03/08 TI - Girl child marriage, socioeconomic status, and undernutrition: evidence from 35 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa JO - BMC Medicine SP - 55 VL - 17 IS - 1 AB - Girl child marriage, a formal union of a female before age 18, and undernutrition remain common in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aim of this study is to establish the extent to which girl child marriage contributes to socioeconomic status and underweight, a measure of undernutrition, among adult women. SN - 1741-7015 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1279-8 DO - 10.1186/s12916-019-1279-8 ID - Efevbera2019 ER -