Source of parental reports of child height and weight during phone interviews and influence on obesity prevalence estimates among children aged 3-17 years

Public Health Reports

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-

  Skinner, Asheley Cockrell ^a   Miles, Donna ^b,c   Perrin, Eliana M ^a   Coyne Beasley, Tamera ^a   Ford, Carol ^d  

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

^b NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENTAL ATTITUDE; POPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TELECONSULTATION;

EID: 84871693666     PISSN: 00333549     EISSN: 14682877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003335491312800107     Document Type: Article

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