Prevalence Estimates of Overweight in Head Start Preschoolers

Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 350-359

  Harbaugh, Bonnie L ^a,b   Bounds, Wendy ^a,b   Kolbo, Jerome ^a,b   Molaison, Elaine ^a,b   Zhang, Lei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Head Start; Health promotion; Obesity; Overweight; Preschool child; Prevalence study

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; OBESITY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD NUTRITION DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MISSISSIPPI; NURSE'S ROLE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OVERWEIGHT; POVERTY; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 70349266719     PISSN: 08825963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pedn.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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