Child overweight and undernutrition in Thailand: Is there an urban effect?

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1420-1428

  Firestone, Rebecca ^a,b   Punpuing, Sureeporn ^c   Peterson, Karen E ^a,d   Acevedo Garcia, Dolores ^a,e   Gortmaker, Steven L ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affluence; Children; Obesity; Poverty; Thailand; Undernutrition; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; DISEASE PREVALENCE; NUTRIENT LOSS; OBESITY; POVERTY DETERMINANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OBESITY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL STATUS; THAILAND; UNDERWEIGHT; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALNUTRITION; OVERWEIGHT; SOCIAL CLASS; THAILAND; URBANIZATION;

CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; KANCHANABURI; THAILAND;

EID: 79955524201     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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