Healthy together Victoria and childhood obesity-a methodology for measuring changes in childhood obesity in response to a community-based, whole of system cluster randomized control trial

Archives of Public Health

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Strugnell, Claudia ^a   Millar, Lynne ^a   Churchill, Andrew ^b   Jacka, Felice ^a,c,d,e   Bell, Colin ^a   Malakellis, Mary ^a   Swinburn, Boyd ^a,f   Allender, Steve ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Population Health and Prevention Strategy   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e BLACK DOG INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Community based interventions; Evaluation; Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964319005     PISSN: 07787367     EISSN: 20493258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13690-016-0127-y     Document Type: Article

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