Childhood obesity: Successes and failures of preventive interventions

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 67, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Heitmann, Berit L ^a   Koplan, Jeffrey ^b   Lissner, Lauren ^c  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Childhood obesity; Intervention; Prevention

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD NUTRITION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; OBESITY; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PRIMARY PREVENTION; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 68849125560     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: 17534887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2009.00167.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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