MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow
4.4 Inequalities in Childhood Overweight
MAY 15, 202416 MIN
4.4 Inequalities in Childhood Overweight
MAY 15, 202416 MIN
Description
<p>In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/staff/annapearce/">Anna Pearce</a>, <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/staff/vittalkatikireddi/">Vittal Katikireddi</a><strong> </strong>and <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/subjects/medicine/staff/index.html/staffcontact/person/33dcefe18395">Phil Broadbent</a> discuss their research on inequalities in childhood overweight as part of European Public Health Week 2024, to coincide with Thursday’s theme, “<em>Health through the life course: Breaking down silos</em>”.</p><p>The papers discussed in this podcast are: </p><ul><li>Broadbent, P., Shen, Y., Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Trends in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity prevalence: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England. Archives of Disease in Childhood. <a href="https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/233">https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/233</a> </li><li>Miall, N. and Pearce, A. (2024) Growing up in Scotland: obesity from early childhood to adolescence. Documentation. Obesity Action Scotland. <a href="https://www.obesityactionscotland.org/media/c2elenpt/gus-report-full-final.pdf">https://www.obesityactionscotland.org/media/c2elenpt/gus-report-full-final.pdf</a> </li></ul><p>Visit the <a href="https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/healthwellbeing/research/mrccsosocialandpublichealthsciencesunit/">MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website</a>.<br><a href="https://twitter.com/theSPHSU">Follow us on X.</a></p>