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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 5.
Published in final edited form as: Obes Rev. 2001 Aug;2(3):159–171. doi: 10.1046/j.1467-789x.2001.00036.x

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Ecological model of predictors of childhood overweight. ✽=Child risk factors (shown in upper case lettering) refer to child behaviours associated with the development of overweight. Characteristics of the child (shown in italic lettering) interact with child risk factors and contextual factors to influence the development of overweight (i.e. moderator variables). This review is organized around child risk factors and the influence of child family, and community characteristics is discussed for each child risk factor.