Determinants of Obesity and Associated Population Attributability, South Africa: Empirical Evidence from a National Panel Survey, 2008-2012.

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Published in PLoS One on June 10, 2015

Authors

Benn Sartorius1, Lennert J Veerman2, Mercy Manyema3, Lumbwe Chola3, Karen Hofman4

Author Affiliations

1: Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.
2: School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
3: School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; PRICELESS SA, MRC/Wits Rural Public, Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
4: School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; PRICELESS SA, MRC/Wits Rural Public, Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States of America.

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