ArticleObesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity2019
The effect of Public Health/Pediatric Obesity interventions on socioeconomic inequalities in childhood obesity: A scoping review.
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Bimbingamba Zerosix Third Phase: Studying Communities
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Association between maternal and paternal employment and their children's weight status and unhealthy behaviours: does it matter who the working parent is?BMC public health · 2022Article
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- Role of contextual and compositional characteristics of schools for health inequalities in childhood and adolescence: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Cardiometabolic Effects of a 12-Month, COVID-19 Lockdown-Interrupted Lifestyle Education Program for Arab Adolescents.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- [Food environment and excess weight in schoolchildren: a South American systematic reviewAmbiente alimentario y exceso de peso en la población escolar: revisión sistemática en América del Sur].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Childhood obesity has a strong social gradient. This scoping review aims to synthesize the evidence on the impact on inequalities of non-targeted interventions to reduce the prevalence of childhood and adolescent obesity in high-income countries. We updated a review by Hillier-Brown, searching up to 31 December 2017 on MEDLINE, Embase, The Cochrane Library, CINAHL, and PsycINFO, with no limitations on study design. Fifty-eight studies describing 51 interventions were included: 31 randomized clinical trials and 27 non-randomized trials, with sample sizes from 67 to 2,700,880 subjects. The majority were implemented in the school setting at a community level; the others were in health services or general population setting and targeting individuals or the system. Twenty-nine interventions proved to be effective overall; seven others had an effect only in a subgroup, while 15 proved not to be effective. All types of included interventions can increase inequalities. Moreover, some interventions had opposite effects based on the socioeconomic characteristics. Any kind of intervention can reduce equity. Consequences are difficult to predict based on intervention construct. Complex interventions acting on multiple targets, settings, and risk factors are more effective and have a lower risk of increasing inequalities.
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