Obesity and Health Risk of Children in the Mississippi Delta

Journal of School Health

Volumn 82, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 478-483

  Gamble, Abigail ^a   Waddell, Dwight ^b   Allison Ford, M ^b   Bentley, John P ^b   Woodyard, Catherine D ^b   Hallam, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood obesity; School health policy; Waist to height ratio

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIETARY SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MISSISSIPPI; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL CLASS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84865961904     PISSN: 00224391     EISSN: 17461561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2012.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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