La Vida Buena (The Good Life) evaluation: a quasi experimental intervention of a community health worker-led family-based childhood obesity program for Latino children 5–8 years of age on the US-Mexico border
Abstract Background Due to multiple and interacting factors, Latino children are disproportionately at risk for overweight and obesity in the United States. Childhood obesity increases the risk for adverse physical and psychosocial outcomes throughout the lifespan. Intensive behavioral interventions...
Main Authors: | Kathryn M. Tucker, Maia Ingram, Kevin Doubleday, Rosie Piper, Scott C. Carvajal |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-06-01
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Series: | BMC Public Health |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12889-019-7081-x |
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