Prevalence of obesity, overweight and thinness in Australian children and adolescents by socioeconomic status and ethnic/cultural group in 2006 and 2012

Jennifer O’Dea () and Michael Dibley

International Journal of Public Health, 2014, vol. 59, issue 5, 819-828

Abstract: The predictors of obesity and thinness were ethnically based, suggesting culturally appropriate interventions in socially and economically disadvantaged communities. Copyright Swiss School of Public Health 2014

Keywords: Adolescents; Children; Obesity; Overweight; Prevalence; SES; Ethnicity; Culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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