Neighbourhood economic deprivation explains racial/ethnic disparities in overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in the USA

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 123-129

  Rossen, Lauren M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; INEQUALITIES; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICAN; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; OBESITY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CHILD HEALTH; INEQUALITIES; MULTILEVEL MODELLING; OBESITY; POVERTY;

ADOLESCENT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; POVERTY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DEPRIVATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84894095897     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2012-202245     Document Type: Article

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