Relationships between health behaviors and weight status in American Indian and white rural children

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 349-359

  Holm, Jeffrey E ^a   Lilienthal, Kaitlin R ^a   Poltavski, Dmitri V ^a   Vogeltanz Holm, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Epidemiology; Health disparities; Health promotion; Rural

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; DIET; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEISURE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL; RURAL POPULATION; UNITED STATES;

CHILDREN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITIES; HEALTH PROMOTION; RURAL;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; DIET; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; MALE; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 84884988378     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jrh.12010     Document Type: Article

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