Creator:

Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)

Geography:

North America > Canada

Categories:

• Health Economics/Healthcare Costs
• Nutrition, Obesity, and Body Mass

Tags:

• aboriginal
• adolescents
• age
• BMI
• child obesity
• children
• economic burden
• obesity
• trends

Date:

2009

URL:

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/2009/oc/pdf/oc-eng.pdf

Annotation:

Provides a snapshot of obesity in Canada using data from the 2007 Canadian Community Health Survey and previous surveys. Although just a summary report, it has most of the basic prevalence information for the provinces, age distribution,  and time trends since 1978