Overweight in urban, low-income, African American and Hispanic children attending Los Angeles elementary schools: research stimulating action
| Autor: | Donna M. Winham, Charlotte G. Neumann, Ben L. Browdy, William G. Cumberland, Wendelin Slusser |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Low income Gerontology Urban Population Cross-sectional study Medicine (miscellaneous) Overweight Child Nutrition Disorders Body Mass Index Age Distribution Risk Factors Environmental health Prevalence medicine Humans Obesity Sex Distribution Child Poverty African american Schools Nutrition and Dietetics Anthropometry business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Hispanic or Latino Baseline data Health Surveys Los Angeles Black or African American Cross-Sectional Studies Female medicine.symptom business Body mass index |
| Zdroj: | Public Health Nutrition. 8:141-148 |
| ISSN: | 1475-2727 1368-9800 |
| DOI: | 10.1079/phn2004675 |
| Popis: | ObjectiveThis study was undertaken to establish the prevalence and severity of nutritional problems among low-income children of elementary school age in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) in order to collect baseline data to inform policy-makers.Design and methodsA cross-sectional survey of children in 14 elementary schools was conducted from January to June, 1998. Nine hundred and nineteen children were measured and interviewed. The planning, design and data analysis were carried out in collaboration with key LAUSD policy-makers.ResultsMore than 35% of the sample was classified as being at risk for overweight or overweight according to body mass index.ConclusionThere is a high prevalence of children who are at risk for overweight or who are overweight in Los Angeles. This finding has triggered the development of multiple school-based intervention programmes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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