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Ethnic variations in overweight and obesity among children over time: findings from analyses of the Health Surveys for England 1998-2009.

Karlsen, S; Morris, S; Kinra, S; Vallejo-Torres, L; Viner, RM; (2014) Ethnic variations in overweight and obesity among children over time: findings from analyses of the Health Surveys for England 1998-2009. Pediatr Obes , 9 (3) 186 - 196. 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2013.00159.x. Green open access

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Abstract

The increase in the prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents in England since the mid-1990s has been dramatic. Cross-sectional evidence suggests ethnic variations in childhood obesity prevalence.

Type: Article
Title: Ethnic variations in overweight and obesity among children over time: findings from analyses of the Health Surveys for England 1998-2009.
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/j.2047-6310.2013.00159.x
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2047-6310.2013.00159.x
Language: English
Additional information: © 2013 The Authors. Pediatric Obesity published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of International Association for the Study of Obesity. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Child health, ethnicity, obesity, overweight
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Applied Health Research
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1389471
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