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Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood overweight: heterogeneity across five c...
Lissner, L.; Wijnhoven, T.M.A.; Mehlig, K.; Sjöberg, A.; Kunesova, M.; Yngve, A.; Petrauskiene, A.; Duleva, V.; Rito, A.I.; Breda, J.BACKGROUND: Excess risk of childhood overweight and obesity occurring in socioeconomically disadvantaged families has been demonstrated in numerous studies from high-income regions, including Europe. It is well known that socioeconomic characteristics such as parental education, income and occupation are etiologically relevant to childhood obesity. However, in the pan-European setting, there is reason to believ...
WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative 2008: weight, height and...
Wijnhoven, T.M.A.; van Raaij, J.M.A.; Spinelli, A; Rito, A.I.; Hovengen, R.; Kunesova, M.; Starc, G.; Rutter, H; Sjoberg, A; Petrauskiene, A.Background: Nutritional surveillance in school-age children, using measured weight and height, is not common in the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO Regional Office for Europe has therefore initiated the WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative. Objective: To present the anthropometric results of data collected in 2007/2008 and to investigate whether there exist diff...