Socioeconomic Inequalities in Overweight and Obesity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries = Desigualdades Socioeconómicas in sobrepeso y obesidad en Países de Bajos y Medianos Ingresos

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• Título: Socioeconomic Inequalities in Overweight and Obesity in Low- and Middle-Income Countries = Desigualdades Socioeconómicas in sobrepeso y obesidad en Países de Bajos y Medianos Ingresos
• Autor: López Arana, Sandra Liliana
• Publicación original: 2016
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• Nota general:
  • Many low- and middle-income countries are experiencing a rapid increase of overweight and obesity rates. Nonetheless, there are some concerns not only about the pace of the increase in overweight and obesity, but also about inequalities in their distribution across social groups. The main aims of this thesis were to:
    i) examine socioeconomic differences in overweight and obesity over the last decades among women of childbearing age in low- and middle- income countries;
    ii) determine the contribution of reproductive variables (e.g., parity, age at first birth, breastfeeding) to socioeconomic inequalities in overweight and obesity in low- and middle-income countries; and
    iii) assess the impact of recently adopted poverty reduction policies, namely conditional cash transfer programs (CCT) on determinants of child health and children´s nutritional status.
    Overall, the prevalence of overweight and obesity among women has increased in most low- and middle-income countries across all educational groups and occupational classes in the last two decade. Nonetheless, overweight and obesity trends have rapidly increased among less educated and lower occupational classes especially in North Africa/West and Central Asia (NWA), Sub-Saharan (SS) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. For example, women working in agriculture and production sector had an annual increase in the prevalence of overweight/obesity ranged from 2.8% in LAC region to 3.7% in the SS region. In addition, women with lower age at first birth, high parity, and shorter duration of breastfeeding had an increased odds of overweight. Nonetheless, those reproductive factors did not play a key role in explaining differences in overweight by socioeconomic status and related trends.
    Finally, the CCT Familias en Accion was associated with significant higher BMI z-scores among children beneficiaries of this program; BMI-for-age z-scores (β=0.14, 95%CI 0.00, 0.27, p <0.05). These results suggest that in future years, the unequal distribution of body weight between and within societies likely contributes to perpetuate poverty and poor health as in high-income countries. In addition, poverty reduction policies such as CCT programs in a middle- income country such as Colombia have not been very successful in preventing overweight and obesity. Therefore, additional efforts specifically focused on preventing an increase in inequalities in overweight and obesity are needed, targeting mothers and children from low income households.
• Notas de reproducción original: Digitalización realizada por la Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia)
• Notas:
  • Resumen: Breastfeeding; Conditional cash transfers programs; Desigualdades; Educación; Education; Inequalities; Lactancia materna; Low- and middle- income countries; Nutrición; Nutrition; Obesidad; Obesity; Overweight; Países de bajos y medianos ingresos; Pobreza; Poverty; Programas de transferencias condicionadas de dinero; Sobrepeso
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• Forma/género: tesis
• Idioma: inglés
• Institución origen: Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República
• Encabezamiento de materia:
  • Ciencias sociales; Ciencias sociales / Problemas y servicios sociales - asociaciones; Tecnología; Tecnología / Ciencias médicas Medicina; Tecnología / Ciencias médicas Medicina / Promoción de la salud