Desire for the body normal: Body image and discrepancies between self reported and measured height and weight in a British population

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 105-106

  Ziebland, Sue ^a   Thorogood, Margaret ^b   Fuller, Alice ^a   Muir, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SELF REPORT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030064038     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.50.1.105     Document Type: Article

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