creators_name: Whitehead, Tanya D
creators_id: whiteheadt@umkc.edu
editors_name: Kakkilaya, Srinivas
editors_id: Kakkilaya BS
type: journale
datestamp: 2008-02-25 22:43:35
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:04
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title: Combating The Obesogenic Environment: Helping Children Hold Onto Health
ispublished: pub
subjects: OJHAS
full_text_status: public
keywords: Childhood obesity, Obesogenic environment, Control
abstract: Given the unprecedented global incidence of overweight in children, the issues that potentially create and sustain a circumstance of epidemic childhood overweight, and the efforts that are underway to prevent and remediate childhood overweight need to be examined. The article explores potentially interrelated causes of obesity/overweight in children and their families, and describe efforts underway to remediate environmental correlates through direct intervention, legislation and a shift in public policy.
date: 2008-01-24
date_type: published
publication: Online Journal Of Health And Allied Sciences
volume: 6
number: 4
publisher: Dr. B.S. Kakkilaya
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Whitehead, Tanya D  (2008) Combating The Obesogenic Environment: Helping Children Hold Onto Health.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5931/1/2007-4-1.pdf