Healthy Weight Advantage Lost in One Generation Among Immigrant Elementary Schoolchildren in Multi-Ethnic, Disadvantaged, Inner-City Neighborhoods in Montreal, Canada

Annals of Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 238-244

  Maximova, Katerina ^a   O'Loughlin, Jennifer ^b   Gray Donald, Katherine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body Mass Index; Children; Ethnicity; Immigrant; Low Income

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; CHILD; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILD; COHORT EFFECT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POVERTY; QUEBEC; SCHOOLS; SOUTH AMERICA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79952078817     PISSN: 10472797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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