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Monday, February 02, 2009

Childhood Obesity focus in MJA


The latest Medical Journal of Australia has been published online and includes a number of articles on the issue of childhood obesity:
1. When does severe childhood obesity become a child protection issue? by Shirley M Alexander, Louise A Baur, Roger Magnusson and Bernadette Tobin.
2. Individual rights over public good? The future of anthropometric monitoring of school children in the fight against obesity, byJoanne M Stubbs and Helen M Achat.
3. Childhood obesity in Australia remains a widespread health concern that warrants population-wide prevention programs, by Timothy P Gill etal.

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