Childhood obesity among Puerto Rican children: Discrepancies between child's and parent's perception of weight status

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1427-1437

  Rivera Soto, Winna T ^a   Rodríguez Figueroa, Linnette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Puerto Rican childhood obesity; parental perception; children perception

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PARENTAL CARE; PERCEPTION; STUDENT;

ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUERTO RICO; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; UNDERWEIGHT;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84860231962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph9041427     Document Type: Article

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