Obesity and undernutrition in sub-Saharan African immigrant and refugee children in Victoria, Australia

Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 482-490

  Renzaho, André M N ^a   Gibbons, Carl ^a   Swinburn, Boyd ^a   Jolley, Damien ^a   Burns, Cate ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Migration; Obesity; Refugees; Sub Saharan Africa; Undernutrition

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIGRATION; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REFUGEE; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PREVALENCE; REFUGEES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 33845427673     PISSN: 09647058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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