Associations between macrolevel economic factors and weight distributions in low- and middle-income countries: A multilevel analysis of 200 000 adults in 40 countries

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Nandi, Arijit ^a   Sweet, Elizabeth ^b   Kawachi, Ichiro ^c   Heymann, Jody ^a   Galea, Sandro ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84893406877     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301392     Document Type: Article

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