School programs and characteristics and their influence on student BMI: findings from healthy passages.

School programs and characteristics and their influence on student BMI: findings from healthy passages.

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-level differ...

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Main Authors: Tracy K Richmond, Marc N Elliott, Luisa Franzini, Ichiro Kawachi, Margaret O Caughy, M Janice Gilliland, Courtney E Walls, Frank A Franklin, Richard Lowry, Stephen W Banspach, Mark A Schuster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3890265?pdf=render

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