Nutrition and physical activity randomized control trial in child care centers improves knowledge, policies, and children's body mass index

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Alkon, Abbey ^a   Crowley, Angela A ^b   Neelon, Sara E Benjamin ^c   Hill, Sherika ^d   Pan, Yi ^e   Nguyen, Viet ^f   Rose, Roberta ^a   Savage, Eric ^e   Forestieri, Nina ^e   Shipman, Linda ^f   Kotch, Jonathan B ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Child care; Child care health consultants; Nutrition; Obesity; Overweight; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897598072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-215     Document Type: Article

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