Weight of communities: A multilevel analysis of body mass index in 32,814 neighborhoods in 57 low- to middle-income countries (LMICs)

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 311-322

  Corsi, Daniel J ^a   Finlay, Jocelyn E ^b   Subramanian, S V ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Communities; Context; Developing countries; Global; Multilevel; Neighborhood

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH SURVEY; HETEROGENEITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOW TO MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; OBESITY; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL STATUS; UNDERWEIGHT; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OVERWEIGHT; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; THINNESS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 84861335014     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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