Is overweight and obesity in 9-10-year-old children in Liverpool related to deprivation and/or electoral ward when based on school attended?

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 636-641

  Dummer, Trevor J B ^a   Gibbon, Mark A ^a   Hackett, Allan F ^a   Stratton, Gareth ^a   Taylor, Sue R ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Deprivation; Map; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HUMAN; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 27644567195     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/PHN2005719     Document Type: Article

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