An exploratory spatial analysis of overweight and obesity in Canada

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 362-367

  Pouliou, Theodora ^a   Elliott, Susan J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; GIS; Obesity; Overweight; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANADA; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; AGE; AGED; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 63449091852     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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