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Obesity increase among low SES Australian schoolchildren between 2000 and 2006: time for preventive interventions to target children from low income schools?

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  • Jennifer O’Dea
  • Michael Dibley

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Obesity increased significantly among children in low SES schools and preventive efforts should urgently and carefully target preventive efforts to assist schools, families and communities which are socially and economically, disadvantaged using culturally appropriate physical activity and nutrition promotion interventions. Copyright Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel/Switzerland 2010

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  • Jennifer O’Dea & Michael Dibley, 2010. "Obesity increase among low SES Australian schoolchildren between 2000 and 2006: time for preventive interventions to target children from low income schools?," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 55(3), pages 185-192, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijphth:v:55:y:2010:i:3:p:185-192
    DOI: 10.1007/s00038-009-0079-x
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    1. Rafael Mikolajczyk & Matthias Richter, 2008. "Associations of behavioural, psychosocial and socioeconomic factors with over- and underweight among German adolescents," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 53(4), pages 214-220, August.
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    1. Jennifer O’Dea & Michael Dibley, 2014. "Prevalence of obesity, overweight and thinness in Australian children and adolescents by socioeconomic status and ethnic/cultural group in 2006 and 2012," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 59(5), pages 819-828, October.
    2. Kevin R Fontaine & Henry T Robertson & Claus Holst & Renee Desmond & Albert J Stunkard & Thorkild I A Sørensen & David B Allison, 2011. "Is Socioeconomic Status of the Rearing Environment Causally Related to Obesity in the Offspring?," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 6(11), pages 1-8, November.
    3. James White & David Rehkopf & Laust Hvas Mortensen, 2016. "Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Body Mass Index, Underweight and Obesity among English Children, 2007–2008 to 2011–2012," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(1), pages 1-11, January.

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