Association between school-level attributes and weight status of Ghanaian primary school children
Abstract Background Little is known about the impact of the school environmental context on the emerging trend of childhood obesity in Africa. We examined the association of the schools' contextual factors with body mass index (BMI), abdominal obesity and overweight (including obesity) in urban...
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Main Authors: | Theodosia Adom (Author), André Pascal Kengne (Author), Anniza De Villiers (Author), Thandi Puoane (Author) |
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2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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