Area-based socioeconomic environment, obesity risk behaviours, area facilities and childhood overweight and obesity. Socioeconomic environment and childhood overweight

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 102-107

  Navalpotro, Lourdes ^a   Regidor, Enrique ^a,b   Ortega, Paloma ^a   Martínez, David ^a   Villanueva, Rosa ^a   Astasio, Paloma ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

Author keywords

Area facilities; Childhood obesity; Childhood overweight; Obesity risk behaviours; Socioeconomic environment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPORT;

ADOLESCENT; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POVERTY AREAS; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; PUBLIC FACILITIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECREATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK-TAKING; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL CLASS; SPAIN; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84863780423     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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