Low awareness of overweight status among parents of preschool-aged children, Minnesota, 2004-2005

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Harnack, Lisa ^a   Lytle, Leslie ^a   Himes, John H ^a   Story, Mary ^a   Taylor, Gretchen ^b   Bishop, Don ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; OBESITY; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MINNESOTA; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 66449110251     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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