School Programs and Characteristics and Their Influence on Student BMI: Findings from Healthy Passages

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the contribution of school contextual factors to individual student body mass index (BMI). We set out to determine if school characteristics/resources: (1) are associated with student BMI; (2) explain racial/ethnic disparities in student BMI; and (3) explain school-...

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Autores principales: Richmond, Tracy K., Elliott, Marc N., Franzini, Luisa, Kawachi, Ichiro, Caughy, Margaret O., Gilliland, M. Janice, Walls, Courtney E., Franklin, Frank A., Lowry, Richard, Banspach, Stephen W., Schuster, Mark A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3890265/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24454697
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083254

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