Estimating prevalence of overweight and obesity at the neighborhood level: The value of maternal height and weight data available on birth certificate records

Population Health Metrics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Webb, David A ^a,c   Robbins, Jessica M ^a   Bloch, Joan R ^b   Culhane, Jennifer F ^c  

^a PHILADELPHIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; MATERNAL HEALTH; NEIGHBORHOOD; OBESITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BIRTH CERTIFICATE; BODY MASS; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MATERNAL HEIGHT; MATERNAL WEIGHT; MOTHER; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 77952516356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-8-16     Document Type: Article

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