Overweight and obesity in young Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese migrants of the second generation in the Netherlands

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2037-2044

  Dijkshoorn, Henriëtte ^a   Nicolaou, Mary ^b   Ujcic Voortman, Joanne K ^a   Schouten, Gea M ^c   Bouwman Notenboom, Arianne J ^d   Berns, Mary P H ^e   Verhoeff, Arnoud P ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Rotterdam Rijnmond Public Health Service   (Netherlands)

^d Municipality of Utrecht   (Netherlands)

^e Hague's Public Health Department   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Generational status; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRANT; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; NUTRITION; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREVALENCE; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURINAME; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH TRANSITION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOROCCO; NETHERLANDS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; RISK; SEX FACTORS; SURINAME; TURKEY; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84905252017     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980013002322     Document Type: Article

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