Nutritional status of urban adolescents: individual, household and neighborhood factors based on data from The BH Health Study

• Main Authors: Stephanie Bispo (Author), Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia (Author), Fernando Augusto Proietti (Author), César Coelho Xavier (Author), Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 2015-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract The increasing prevalence of overweight in young people suggests that adolescent nutritional status is influenced by environmental factors. Using hierarchical modelling, this study aimed to analyse the association between individual, household and neighborhood factors and adolescent nutriti...