Objective and setting To understand the salience and framing of childhood obesity across 19 years of UK national newspaper content. Design and outcome measures Quantitative content analysis of 757 articles about childhood obesity obtained from six daily and five Sunday newspapers. Articles were coded ...
Newspaper articles Encyclopedia articles Understanding Childhood Obesity J. Clinton Smith. University Press of Mississippi, 1999 Read preview The Obesity Epidemic: Science, Morality, and Ideology Michael Gard; Jan Wright. Routledge, 2005 Read preview Eating Disorders and Obesity: A Comprehensiv...
In this study parents’ and health professionals’ views and perspectives about pre-school childhood overweight and obesity were sought by a local health board in order to develop a weight management programme orientated towards parents of children under the age of five living in the North East of...
Likewise, a WAZ-score > + 1 is considered overweight, subdivided into simple overweight (> + 1 to + 2), obesity (> + 2 to + 3), and severe obesity (> + 3). Figure 1 Distribution of weight-for-age z-scores in Finland, Latin America, and Angola...
The report highlighted a few of the negatives of the past 20 years. In spite of fewer children dying and infant mortality rates decreasing, child health has deteriorated. A major contributory factor to this is the increasing levels of obesity because of poor diet, the abundance of fast food,...
Extreme Obesity May Increase Relapse Risk During Maintenance Therapy in Children With Leukemia Subtype Colleen Moretti December 7th 2022 Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia had a 2.4-fold greater risk of relapse if they were considered extremely obese while undergoing maintenance therapy.High Sugar ...
This is to be expected since MUAC is another indicator for acute malnutrition besides WHZ, and it can also be used to identify obesity. WAZ also showed a weak positive correlation between MUAC (p = 0.0001) and gestational age (0.038). An increase in WAZ is usually associated with a ...
Ferron&AssociatesAdverseChildhoodExperiences(ACE)Resultsof2009-2010LakeCountySurveySponsoredByLakeCountyChildren’..
We examined the use of public health framing and attribution of responsibility in the First Lady's remarks and newspaper articles reporting on childhood obesity. We coded the Whitehouse.gov website for remarks made by the First Lady regarding the childhood obesity prevention program "Let's Move....
Tuesday Udell,Kaye Mehta.When two sides go to war: newspaper reporting of ’television food advertising restrictions’ as a solution to childhood obesity[J]. Health, Risk & Society .2008(6)Udell, T., & Mehta, K. (2008). When two sides go to war: newspaper reporting of 'television food...