Childhood obesity, healthy foods, social determinants, physical activity, active transportationChildhood obesity is a major public health problem affecting children worldwide. Early strategies to address this problem have focused largely on diet and exercise, with an emphasis on changing the health ...
Parental overweight, socioeconomic status and high birth weight are the major determinants of overweight and obesity in 5–7y-old children: baseline data of the Kiel obesity prevention study (KOPS). Int J Obes Metab Relat Disord 2004; 28: 1494–1502. Article CAS Google Scholar Toschke AM, ...
Large socioeconomic, gender, and ethnic inequalities exist in terms of childhood obesity worldwide. Children from low socioeconomic status families are more likely to have overweight/obesity and related cardiometabolic problems and future cancer risk. A wider concept are social vulnerabilities defined as...
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) defines the double burden of malnutrition as the new face of malnutrition. This is a serious problem in Latin American countries, especially Paraguay, which has a high obesity rate. This study aimed to gather data to inform a national strategy for...
In recognition of the importance of early childhood, the Commission on Social Determinants of Health's Closing the Gap in a Generation report suggests that "equity from the start" should be an essential component of any attempt to improve health out- comes overall and, in particular, address ...
Family-based social determinants and child health: Cross-sectional studyThe aim of this study was to evaluate the association between urbanization of residential area, parent education level, employment status, overweight/obesity, physical activity, and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), in...
The foreword is provided by Professor Sir Michael Marmot, a leading worldwide authority in the social determinants of health. A new focus of the book is that both the prevalence and prevention of childhood obesity are covered, with international chapters examining the importance of factors such as...
Association between individual factors, built and social environment and overweight/obesity among adults from belo horizonte, Brazil The prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity is increasing at an alarming rate in the United States. Currently more than 1 in 3 children aged 2-19 ar... M L...
Raphael, DennisCritical Public HealthMedvedyuk, S.; Ali, A.; Raphael, D. Ideology, obesity and the social determinants of health: A critical analysis of the obesity and health relationship. Crit. Public Health 2018, 28, 573-585. [CrossRef]...
Social discrimination against the obese people plays completely different roles in two cases: on one hand, when obesity cannot be eradicated, social discrimination can reduce the number of obese people; on the other hand, when obesity is eradicable, social discrimination may instead cause it ...