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Associação entre os fatores socioeconómicos da família, o excesso de peso e a p...

A nível global, a obesidade infantil, os hábitos alimentares e as desigualdades socioeconómicas representam um desafio contemporâneo de saúde pública. O principal objetivo deste estudo é caraterizar as associações entre os fatores socioeconómicos da família com a perceção do consumo de alimentos de elevada densidade energética durante a pandemia em comparação com o período pré-pandemia e com a prevalência de ex...

Worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022: a pooled analysi...

Background: Underweight and obesity are associated with adverse health outcomes throughout the life course. We estimated the individual and combined prevalence of underweight or thinness and obesity, and their changes, from 1990 to 2022 for adults and school-aged children and adolescents in 200 countries and territories. Methods: We used data from 3663 population-based studies with 222 million participants that...

Democratising participatory health promotion: power and knowledge involved in e...

Public policy aimed at preventing undesired phenomena has increasingly sought to engage representatives of the target population. Little is known, however, about how power dynamics function to shape the processes and outcomes of risk governance engagement interventions. In order to study the ways in which, and the extent to which, power differentials can be reduced in participatory health promotion initiatives,...

Strategies for the engagement of youth in health-related activities in Portugal...

Introduction: The lack of attention paid by policymakers to the views and role of young people in societal matters, including health, has been a contributor factor for the poor youth involvement in the development of health-related policies. The CO-CREATE (CC) project aims to collaborate with adolescents across Europe in developing policy ideas that contribute to overweight and obesity prevention. Aim: Present ...

Influência do background migratório no excesso de peso infantil: estudo COSI Po...

Obesity dialogues – fostering policy options in Western Balkans and Central Asia

Introduction: Obesity has been identified as a serious public health challenge globally and a major determinant of premature death and disability in the WHO European Region. More than 50% of adults and one in three children around the Region are living with overweight or obesity, with prevalence close to 70% in several countries. In 2022, The WHO European Office for the Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable...

Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: COSI Portugal 2022

O Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI)/Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) é o sistema europeu de vigilância nutricional infantil coordenado pelo Gabinete Regional Europeu da OMS. Tem como principal objetivo criar uma rede sistemática de recolha, análise, interpretação e divulgação de informação descritiva sobre as caraterísticas do estado nutricional infantil de crianças dos 6 aos 8 anos, que se tra...

Improving data on overweight, obesity and undernutrition among children under t...

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...

What policies are there and what policies are missing? A Photovoice study of ad...

The aim of this study was to investigate adolescents' critical awareness of whether obesity prevention policies targeting physical activity (PA) and nutrition were operating in their local community. Participants were 41 adolescents (aged 16–18, 90%women) recruited from three communities in Poland. Prior to this study, they were involved in obesity-prevention participatory initiatives (conducted within the CO-C...

Encouraging greater empowerment for adolescents in consent procedures in social...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child emphasizes the importance of allowing children and adolescents to influence decisions that are important to them following their age and maturity. This paper explores the principles, practices, and implications around using parental versus child/adolescent consent when participating in social science research and policy development. Experiences from two s...