WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: Body mass index and level of overweight among 6-9-year-old children from school year 2007/2008 to school year 2009/2010

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Wijnhoven, Trudy Ma ^a   Van Raaij, Joop Ma ^b,c   Spinelli, Angela ^d   Starc, Gregor ^e   Hassapidou, Maria ^f   Spiroski, Igor ^g   Rutter, Harry ^h   Martos, Éva ⁱ   Rito, Ana I ^j   Hovengen, Ragnhild ^k   Pérez Farinós, Napoleón ^l   Petrauskiene, Ausra ^m   Eldin, Nazih ^n,o   Braeckevelt, Lien ^p   Pudule, Iveta ^q   Kunešová, Marie ^r   Breda, João ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^f ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^g Institute for Public Health of R Macedonia   (Macedonia)

^h LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ National Institute of Food Hygiene and Nutrition Budapest   (Hungary)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^k NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^l Food Safety and Nutrition   (Spain)

^m LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

ⁿ HEALTH SERVICE EXECUTIVE   (Ireland)

^o UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^p Environmental Policy Division   (Belgium)

^q Centre for Disease Prevention and Control   (Latvia)

^r INSTITUTE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICES; SCHOOLS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84908090505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-806     Document Type: Article

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