Green neighborhoods, food retail and childhood overweight: Differences by population density

American Journal of Health Promotion

Volumn 21, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2007, Pages 317-325

  Liu, Gilbert C ^a   Wilson, Jeffrey S ^b   Qi, Rong ^a   Ying, Jun ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Manuscript format: research; Obesity, Environment Design, Ecosystem, Food Industry, Prevention Research; Outcome measure: biometric: body mass index percentile; Research purpose: modeling relationship testing; Study design: cross sectional

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALCULATION; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY LIVING; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MARKET; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

EID: 33947113750     PISSN: 08901171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4278/0890-1171-21.4s.317     Document Type: Article

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