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Physical environmental correlates of childhood obesity: a systematic review
Obesity Reviews, 07/01/09

Dunton GF et al. - Increasing rates of childhood obesity in the USA and other Western countries are a cause for serious public health concern. Neighborhood and community environments are thought to play a contributing role in the development of obesity among youth, but it is not well understood which types of physical environmental characteristics have the most potential to influence obesity outcomes.

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