Obesity in the Caribbean: The Jamaican experience

Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-27

  Ragoobirsingh, D ^a   St A Morrison, E Y ^a   Johnson, P ^a   Lewis Fuller, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Caribbean; Epidemiological study; Jamaica; Obesity; Point prevalence; Systematic island wide survey

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAMAICA; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING;

EID: 0742289446     PISSN: 14628902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-1326.2004.00303.x     Document Type: Article

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