Neighborhood-Level Predictors and Obesity Among African-American Children
The steady raise in childhood obesity is a major public health problem nationally and globally. Childhood obesity is primarily caused by an imbalance between caloric intake and caloric expenditure. The increase in childhood obesity rates over the past 3 decades suggested involvement of environmental...
Main Author: | Onyeka, Uche |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | en |
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ScholarWorks
2018
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4881 https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6160&context=dissertations |
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