Socio‐economic inequalities in childhood obesity: Can community level interventions help to reduce the gap?
A link between higher rates of childhood obesity and deprivation has been noted in the UK, as well as several other European countries and the US. The drivers of obesity are complex and multi‐factorial, but socially and economically disadvantaged groups may be more vulnerable to many of these. Evide...
| Publicado en: | Nutrition Bulletin Vol. 44; no. 4; pp. 381 - 394 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2019
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