Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
952296 Social Science & Medicine 2013 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage, including poverty and low education, impacts child obesity. ► Children in neighborhoods with a higher proportion of foreign-born residents have a reduced risk of obesity. ► Accounting for neighborhood structural factors does not reduce race/ethnic disparities in child obesity.
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