Year: 2014
Type: Article
Title: WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: body mass index and level of overweight among 6-9-year-old children from school year 2007/2008 to school year 2009/2010
Author: Wijnhoven, Trudy M A
Author: van Raaij, Joop M A
Author: Spinelli, Angela
Author: Starc, Gregor
Author: Hassapidou, Maria
Author: Spiroski, Igor
Author: Rutter, Harry
Author: Martos, Éva
Author: Rito, Ana I
Author: Hovengen, Ragnhild
Author: Pérez-Farinós, Napoleón
Author: Petrauskiene, Ausra
Author: Eldin, Nazih
Author: Braeckevelt, Lien
Author: Pudule, Iveta
Author: Kunešová, Marie
Author: Breda, João
Abstract: The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe has established the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) to monitor changes in overweight in primary-school children. The aims of this paper are to present the anthropometric results of COSI Round 2 (2009/2010) and to explore changes in body mass index (BMI) and overweight among children within and across nine countries from school years 2007/2008 to 2009/2010.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Relation: BMC public health
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/7470
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/7470Identifier: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-806
Identifier: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1471-2458-14-806.pdfIdentifier: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2458-14-806/fulltext.htmlIdentifier: http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/1471-2458-14-806Identifier: 14
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