ArticleSSM - population health2022
Grandparental care and childhood obesity in China.
Article in SSM - population health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The Socio-Ecological Factors of Physical Activity Participation in Preschool-Aged Children with Disabilities.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Association between external eating and dietary patterns among middle school students in Chongqing, China.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Rural-Urban Differences in Physical Fitness and Overweight Prevalence of Children and Adolescents from Central South China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Effects of Living Environment, Health Status of Family Members, and Migrant Elderly following Children's Attitude about Care on Grandchildren's Health Status in Weifang, China.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Stunting among kindergarten children in China in the context of COVID-19: A cross-sectional study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
Ongoing increases in childhood obesity have become a serious public health concern. Meanwhile, caregiving by grandparents becomes a worldwide social phenomenon. This study estimates the effect of grandparental care on childhood obesity and explores its pathways. Utilizing five waves of panel data from the China Family Panel Studies, we found that grandparental care significantly increases the probability of childhood obesity, adding 3.6 percentage points. The effect is heterogeneous between boys and girls and between grandparents with different education attainments. The channels through which grandparents contribute to childhood obesity include inappropriate dietary patterns and insufficient physical activities. Additionally, we found that grandparents' famine experience generates a long-term fear of hunger, which translates into overfeeding their grandchildren, thus aggravating childhood obesity in China.
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