Time trend and demographic and geographic disparities in childhood obesity prevalence in China—evidence from twenty years of longitudinal data

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Jia, Peng ^a   Xue, Hong ^b   Zhang, Ji ^c   Wang, Youfa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Child; China; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HEALTH SURVEY; OBESITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN SOCIETY;

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; REFERENCE VALUE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY;

CHINA;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHINA; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PREVALENCE;

EID: 85016967731     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph14040369     Document Type: Article

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