Neighborhood playgrounds, fast food restaurants, and crime: Relationships to overweight in low-income preschool children

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-63

  Burdette, Hillary L ^a,c   Whitaker, Robert C ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Child; Environment and public health; Food; Obesity; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATERING SERVICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRIME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SAFETY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347481286     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2003.09.029     Document Type: Article

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