Development of a new body image assessment scale in urban Cameroon: An anthropological approach

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 288-293

  Cohen, Emmanuel ^a,b   Pasquet, Patrick ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CHEIKH ANTA DIOP   (Senegal)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Body image; Body image scales; Central Africa; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; SEX RATIO; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY IMAGE; BODY MASS INDEX; CAMEROON; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 80054867008     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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