Determinants of obesity. The case of Germany

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2523-2534

  Maennig, Wolfgang ^a   Schicht, Tobias ^a   Sievers, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age; Continuous BMI variable; Gender; Obesity; Socio economic factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349154195     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2007.11.001     Document Type: Article

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