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Improving data on overweight, obesity and undernutrition among children under t...
Wickramasinghe, K.; Heinen, M.; Buoncristiano, M.; Pudule, I.; Rito, Ana; Spinelli, A.; Ahrens, W.; Borghi, E.; Flores-Urrutia, K.; McColl, K.Introduction: It is important for countries to be able to examine their progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals on malnutrition. Unfortunately, in the WHO European Region, there is limited and sparse crosssectional anthropometric measured data at national level from children under five years of age. The WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases in collaboration wit...
WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: School nutrition enviro...
Wijnhoven, T.A.; van Raaij, J; Sjöberg, A.; Eldin, N.; Yngve, A.; Kunešová, M.; Starc, G.; Rito, A.I.; Duleva, V.; Hassapidou, M.; Martos, E.Background: Schools are important settings for the promotion of a healthy diet and sufficient physical activity and thus overweight prevention. Objective: To assess differences in school nutrition environment and body mass index (BMI) in primary schools between and within 12 European countries. Methods: Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) were ...