Ten-year trends in overweight/obesity among Ontario middle and high school students and their use in establishing baseline measures for government reduction targets

OBJECTIVES: Public health concern about increasing levels of child/youth overweight and obesity has resulted in initiatives to address this issue. In 2012, the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC) established a target to reduce childhood obesity by 20% within five years. In this pa...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Can J Public Health
Main Authors: Allison, Kenneth R., Irving, Hyacinth M., Adlaf, Edward M., Faulkner, Guy E. J., Boak, Angela, Manson, Heather E., Hamilton, Hayley A., Ng, Bessie
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer International Publishing 2015
Subjects:
Quantitative Research
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6972192/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26986913
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.17269/CJPH.106.5175
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Similar Items