Applying a correction procedure to the prevalence estimates of overweight and obesity in the German part of the HBSC study

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ellert, Ute ^a   Brettschneider, Anna Kristin ^a   Wiegand, Susanna ^b   Kurth, Bärbel Maria ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body image; Corrected prevalence rates; Overweight; Prevalence rates weight status; Self reports

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; THINNESS;

EID: 84899106444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-181     Document Type: Article

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