The landscape of childhood health and disease has changed over the past century, and school nurses are now in a unique position to address the conditions that lead to chronic disease, such as obesity. Measuring body mass index (BMI) during childhood and adolescence is the recommended method for screening and/or monitoring obesity in school communities. Yet changes in the size, proportion, and distribution of fat mass and fat-free mass during growth and development introduce challenges to interpreting BMI measurements. Understanding these challenges and ensuring accurate measurement techniques are the foundation for implementing school-based BMI measurement programs. This article will provide an overview of body composition during childhood ...
This paper aims to guide readers embarking on the complex literature in respect of childhood and ado...
Population-level surveillance of student weight status (particularly monitoring students with a body...
Obesity results from an energy imbalance, when more energy is consumed as food than is used by both ...
The landscape of childhood health and disease has changed over the past century, and school nurses a...
BACKGROUND: School-based body mass index (BMI) measurement has attracted much attention across the n...
Child obesity among school age children is epidemic in the United States (U.S.). A critical review o...
The Office of School Health, a joint program of the Departments of Health and Education, administers...
Background: The prevalence of obesity increased worldwide in children and adolescents from 1975 to 2...
© 2007 Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. All rights reserved. Body mass index (BMI; weight/height2), i...
In the United States, childhood and adolescent obesity is a problem of growing concern. With nearly ...
The continuing high prevalence of child overweight and obesity globally means that it remains the mo...
Childhood obesity has become a major health and social problem throughout America. In an effort to m...
More than 14 million children and adolescents inthe United States are overweight, and an addi-tional...
Throughout the developed world there is an increasing prevalence of childhood obesity. Because of th...
Abstract This paper aims to guide readers embarking on the complex literature in respect of childhoo...
This paper aims to guide readers embarking on the complex literature in respect of childhood and ado...
Population-level surveillance of student weight status (particularly monitoring students with a body...
Obesity results from an energy imbalance, when more energy is consumed as food than is used by both ...
The landscape of childhood health and disease has changed over the past century, and school nurses a...
BACKGROUND: School-based body mass index (BMI) measurement has attracted much attention across the n...
Child obesity among school age children is epidemic in the United States (U.S.). A critical review o...
The Office of School Health, a joint program of the Departments of Health and Education, administers...
Background: The prevalence of obesity increased worldwide in children and adolescents from 1975 to 2...
© 2007 Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd. All rights reserved. Body mass index (BMI; weight/height2), i...
In the United States, childhood and adolescent obesity is a problem of growing concern. With nearly ...
The continuing high prevalence of child overweight and obesity globally means that it remains the mo...
Childhood obesity has become a major health and social problem throughout America. In an effort to m...
More than 14 million children and adolescents inthe United States are overweight, and an addi-tional...
Throughout the developed world there is an increasing prevalence of childhood obesity. Because of th...
Abstract This paper aims to guide readers embarking on the complex literature in respect of childhoo...
This paper aims to guide readers embarking on the complex literature in respect of childhood and ado...
Population-level surveillance of student weight status (particularly monitoring students with a body...
Obesity results from an energy imbalance, when more energy is consumed as food than is used by both ...