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Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Sleep Duration of Children Aged 6-9 Years i...
Whiting, S; Buoncristiano, M; Gelius, P; Abu-Omar, K; Pattison, M; Hyska, J; Duleva, V; Musić Milanović, S; Zamrazilová, H; Hejgaard, T; Rasmussen, MBackground: Children are becoming less physically active as opportunities for safe active play, recreational activities, and active transport decrease. At the same time, sedentary screen-based activities both during school and leisure time are increasing. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate physical activity (PA), screen time, and sleep duration of girls and boys aged 6–9 years in Europe using data from th...
WHO European Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative: body mass index and lev...
Wijnhoven, TA; van Raaij, J; Spinelli A, A; Starc, G; Hassapidou, M; Spiroski, I; Rutter, H; Martos, E; Rito, AI; et, al.Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe has established the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) to monitor changes in overweight in primary-school children. The aims of this paper are to present the anthropometric results of COSI Round 2 (2009/2010) and to explore changes in body mass index (BMI) and overweight among children within and across nine countries from ...
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...