Socioeconomic status and biological factors on the nutritional health of an urban community of Cape Verdean children residing in Portugal

Background and aims: Southern European countries have been showing high overweight and obesity (OW/OB) rates especially among the younger generations (Cattaneo et al. 2010). Portugal is one of those countries with 37.9% overweight and 15.3% obesity in 6 to 8 year olds (Rito et al. 2012). However lit...

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Main Author: Ana Lucia Vieira Peixoto Andre
Format: Default Thesis
Published: 2017
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Other health sciences not elsewhere classified
Cape Verde
Socioeconomic status
Portugal
Nutritional status
Medical and Health Sciences not elsewhere classified
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/25994
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