Income adequacy and education associated with the prevalence of obesity in rural Saskatchewan, Canada

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Chen, Yue ^a   Rennie, Donna C ^b,c   Karunanayake, Chandima P ^b   Janzen, Bonnie ^d   Hagel, Louise ^b   Pickett, William ^e   Dyck, Roland ^d   Lawson, Joshua ^b   Dosman, James A ^b   Pahwa, Punam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Education; Farm; Income adequacy; Obesity; Rural

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; SASKATCHEWAN; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; RURAL POPULATION; SASKATCHEWAN; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84937940064     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2006-9     Document Type: Article

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