Food and Park Environments: Neighborhood-level Risks for Childhood Obesity in East Los Angeles

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 325-333

  Kipke, Michele D ^a   Iverson, Ellen ^a   Moore, Deborah ^b   Booker, Cara ^a   Ruelas, Valerie ^a   Peters, Anne L ^b   Kaufman, Francine ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Ethnography; Fast food restaurants; Obesity; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMMUNITY LIVING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOOD ANALYSIS; FRUIT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERVIEW; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FRUIT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOS ANGELES; MALE; OBESITY; PUBLIC SECTOR; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RESTAURANTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETABLES;

EID: 33947183047     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2006.10.021     Document Type: Article

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