Prevalence and sociodemographic correlates of stunting, underweight, and overweight among Palestinian school adolescents (13-15 years) in two major governorates in the West Bank

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mikki, Nahed ^a,b   Abdul Rahim, Hanan F ^c   Awartani, Faisal ^d   Holmboe Ottesen, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b BIRZEIT UNIVERSITY   (Palestine)

^c QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^d Alpha International for Research Polling and Informatics   (Palestine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARAB; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARABS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; THINNESS;

EID: 75949127904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-485     Document Type: Article

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