ArticleBMJ open2022
Association of socioeconomic position and childhood obesity in Finland: a registry-based study.
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- Impact of Household Economic and Mothers' Time Affluence on Obesity in Japanese Preschool Children: A Cross-sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Overweight and Obesity in Finnish Children by Parents' Socioeconomic Position-A Registry-Based Study.International journal of public health · 2023Article
- Attained body mass index among children attending rural outdoor or urban conventional kindergartens.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo identify what dimensions of socioeconomic position (SEP) are most closely associated with childhood obesity in Finland, leveraging population-wide data among the whole child population aged 2-17 years in Finland.
designRegistry-based study.
settingData from several administrative registries linked on individual level covering the whole of Finland were used. Data on height and weight measurements in 2018 were obtained from the Register of Primary Health Care visits and data on sociodemographic and socioeconomic indicators (2014-2018) from Statistics Finland.
participantsChildren aged 2-17 years with valid height and weight measurements performed at the child health clinic or school healthcare in 2018 (final n=194 423).
main outcome measuresObesity was defined according to WHO Growth Reference curves. Sociodemographic and socioeconomic indicators were linked on individual level for adults (both parents) who lived in the same household (42 predictors). Boosted regression model was used to analyse the contribution of SEP to obesity.
resultsFrom socioeconomic indicators, annual household income (12.6%) and mother and father's educational level (12.6% and 8.1%, respectively) had the highest relative influence on obesity risk. The relative influence of a child's sex was 7.7%.
conclusionsThe parents' SEP was inversely associated with obesity among the offspring. A remarkable number of objective SEP indicators were analysed with parents' education and household income finally being the indicators most strongly associated with obesity among children. In future research, more attention should be paid to reliable and objective ways of measuring educational status and income rather than on developing new SEP indicators. Administrative registries with information on both healthcare and socioeconomic indicators can in future provide better opportunities to assess the influence of SEP on various health risks.
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