Association of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, acculturation, and environmental factors with risk of overweight among adolescents in California, 2003

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Ahn, Min Kyung ^a   Juon, Hee Soon ^a   Gittelsohn, Joel ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84978437289     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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