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childhood obesity, overweight children, obesity,  jamaica, jamaican children

You can search the Library’s OPAC, Databases as well as Google Scholar.

Searching the websites of organisations such as PAHO and WHO for additional information may prove to be helpful as well.  The following are examples of articles on this topic.

Comparison of self-perceived weight and desired weight versus actual body mass index among adolescents in Jamaica

Household food insecurity and childhood overweight in Jamaica and Québec: a gender-based analysis

Jamaican Youth Risk and Resiliency Behaviour Survey 2005 (USAID)

format “case study” site:.edu

OR

format “case study” site:.ac.uk

The changing faces of diabetes, hypertension and arthritis in a Caribbean population

Risk factors of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases among Jamaican adolescents (Access fulltext through ProQuest Database from http://www.mona.uwi.edu/library/index.html)

Multigenerational inheritance and clinical characteristics of three large pedigrees with early-onset type 2 diabetes in Jamaica

Search terms in PubMed

(diabetes) AND jamaican children

(tulloch-reid m[Author]) AND diabetes

Search terms in Google Scholar

jamaica childhood diabetes

The educational goals and objectives for this tutorial are based on the ACRL Literacy Competency Standards. Standard Three specifies: “The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.” One of the performance indicators for Standard Three is: “The information literate student articulates and applies initial criteria for evaluating both the information and its sources.” The educational outcome for this tutorial is that the student will examine and compare “information from various sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view or bias.” (See: ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education.

Clinical epidemiology of childhood cancer in Central America and Caribbean countries

Google scholar keywords – “research methods” “health sciences”

Developmental and behavioral pediatrics :a handbook for primary care /edited by Steven Parker, Barry Zuckerman, and Marilyn Augustyn.   Medical Library | Course Reserves Book (RBC)  | RJ47.5 .B37 2005

James Buchan

Mireille Kingma

F. Marilyn Lorenzo

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