The YMCA healthy, fit, and strong program: A community-based, family-centered, low-cost obesity prevention/treatment pilot study

Childhood Obesity

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 577-582

  Schwartz, Robert P ^a   Vitolins, Mara Z ^a   Case, L Douglas ^a   Armstrong, Sarah C ^b   Perrin, Eliana M ^c   Cialone, Josephine ^d   Bell, Ronny A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d North Carolina Division of Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONSUMER; COST; DIET; ECONOMICS; ETHNIC GROUP; EXERCISE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; PARENT; PILOT STUDY; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED STATES;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIET; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXERCISE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PARENTS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL WELFARE;

EID: 84870505370     PISSN: 21532168     EISSN: 21532176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/chi.2012.0060     Document Type: Article

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