Changes in school environment, awareness and actions regarding overweight prevention among Dutch secondary schools between 2006-2007 and 2010-2011

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Van Den Berg, Saskia W ^a   Mikolajczak, Jochen ^a   Bemelmans, Wanda J E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Awareness; Longitudinal; Obesogenic environment; Overweight prevention; Policy; Secondary schools

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AWARENESS; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; FOOD HANDLING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; POLICY; SCHOOL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AWARENESS; CHILD; FOOD DISPENSERS, AUTOMATIC; FOOD SERVICES; FOOD SUPPLY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; OVERWEIGHT; SCHOOLS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84880335303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-672     Document Type: Article

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