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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: 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 ...