Fat, rich and beautiful: Changing socio-cultural paradigms associated with obesity risk, nutritional status and refugee children from sub-Saharan Africa

Health and Place

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 105-113

  Renzaho, André M N ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural attitudes; Dietary acculturation; Obesity; Sub Saharan Africans

Indexed keywords

ACCULTURATION; AFRICAN IMMIGRANT; CHILD HEALTH; ETHNIC MINORITY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; REFUGEE;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIETITIAN; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ESTHETICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REFUGEE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0344862066     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1353-8292(03)00051-0     Document Type: Article

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