Overweight children and adolescents – is there a subjective need for treatment?

Emily Finne (), Thomas Reinehr, Anke Schaefer, Katrin Winkel and Petra Kolip

International Journal of Public Health, 2009, vol. 54, issue 2, 112-116

Abstract: Reaching overweight, but not obese, children and adolescents for intervention is difficult, where a low recognition of the condition in its less extreme form might be a particular problem. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2009

Keywords: Recruitment; Children; Adolescents; Overweight; Prevention; Clinical trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-009-8004-x

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