Socio-behavioral Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in Egyptian Primary School Children

Taha, Azza A.; Marawan, Hala

doi:10.4172/2375-4494.1000236

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“…Furthermore, higher prevalence of obesity was positively associated in the age group of 6–9 years with male gender as well as regularity of father's employment which translate into a good socioeconomic status in our results ( Table 4 ). It confirms previous study results which reported a positive association with male gender as well as middle socioeconomic status and highlights that Fayoum Governorate follows the same trend regarding factors of obesity [ 35 – 38 ].…”

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Malnutrition and Its Associated Factors among Rural School Children in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

Wahed

Hassan

Eldessouki

2017

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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Malnutrition is an increasing health problem among children in developing countries. We assessed the level of malnutrition and associated factors among school children in a rural setting in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt. A school based cross-sectional survey was conducted on children (6–17 years) in Manshit El Gamal village in Tamia district of Fayoum Governorate. Weight, height, and age data were used to calculate z-scores of the three nutritional indicators using WHO anthroPlus. Sociodemographics and lifestyles Data were collected. Prevalence of stunting, underweight, and wasting was 34.2%, 3.4%, and 0.9%, respectively, while obesity was 14.9%. Prevalence of obesity was significantly higher in younger age group of 6–9 years in comparison with older age and was higher in males versus females in 10–13-year-age group. Increasing age, reduced poultry consumption, and escaping breakfast were associated factors for stunting with OR (95% CI) 1.27 (1.17–1.37), 2.19 (1.4–3.4), and 2.3 (1.07–5.03). Younger age and regular employment of the father were factors associated with obesity (OR = 0.753; 0.688–0.824 and OR = 2.217; 1.4–3.5). Malnutrition is highly prevalent in Fayoum in line with the national prevalence and associated with age, gender, regularity of father's employment, and dietary factors.

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Malnutrition and Its Associated Factors among Rural School Children in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

Wahed

Hassan

Eldessouki

2017

Journal of Environmental and Public Health

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“…40 In Egypt the prevalence rate of overweight and obesity ranged between 31->40%. In one study 42 girls were more overweight and obese than boys while other studies 44,45 showed slight variations. In Libya, two studies showed a prevalence range of 9.5-28.2%.…”

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<p>Contribution of Home and School Environment in Children’s Food Choice and Overweight/Obesity Prevalence in African Context: Evidence for Creating Enabling Healthful Food Environment</p>

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Martin²,

Kulwa³

et al. 2020

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This review aimed primarily to investigate the current trends of overweight and obesity in school children in the African context, secondly to explore the contribution of home and school environments on the children's food choices and lastly suggesting measures for creating a healthier food environment. Despite the increase in overweight and obesity among school children, empirical evidence on their determinants in the African context is scarce, thus calls for consideration of home and school environments. A literature search was conducted between October and December 2018 using Medline (PubMed), Directory of Open Access Journals, Google Scholar, manual search and "grey" literature. This review included articles published between the 1st January 2008 and 30th June 2018. Out of 343 articles, 49 were included for the full text reading after meeting the inclusion criteria. Five reports from grey literature were also included. Results show that the prevalence of overweight and obesity among school children in Africa is increasing and ranges from <5% to >40% in the 10-year period in which the review was taken. High socioeconomic status, urban residence and female gender predicted higher prevalence of overweight/obesity. Few reviewed articles on the contribution of home and school environments on children's food choices showed a shred of evidence, thus calls for further research to address this gap. This review found an increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity in school children in Africa. Therefore, further investigation of home and school environment is imperative to curb the increase in the magnitude of overweight and obesity.

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“…It ranged from 11.1 to 23.7% and 8.2 to 19.5%, respectively, in 5 studies conducted between 2010 and 2020. (26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31) Only two percent or less of children are thin. (16) In 2016, the prevalence of obesity among school-aged children (6-9 years old) in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) was 10.5%, while the prevalence of overweight was 22.5%.…”

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Progress in Egypt’s Sustainable Development Goals from a Public Health Nutrition Perspective

El-Fatah

Aboelseoud²

2023

Journal of High Institute of Public Health

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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) include several nutrition-focused goals. Nutrition has direct effects on the second and third SDGs, namely achieving zero hunger and good health and wellbeing, as well as indirect effects on the first, fifth, sixth, eighth, and seventeenth. Achievement of SDG goals is a prerequisite for meeting the global nutrition targets by 2025. Despite some improvement, Egypt is falling short of meeting the majority of the nutrition targets. From a public health nutrition perspective, there are several gaps in progress toward the SDGs related to nutrition policies, programs, or intervention levels. Political commitment, multisectoral cooperation, adequate financing, scaling up existing interventions, delivering new policies, and incorporating best practices into national policies are crucial for accelerating nutrition progress. Investing in data needed and the capacity to use it, health system capacity building, service providers training, informing beneficiaries, program monitoring and evaluation, and establishing a nutrition surveillance system to adequately inform policy formation are crucial to achieving the target. In order to provide nutrition interventions in an integrated manner, a multi-systems approach should focus on the food, health, water, and sanitation systems, as well as the education and social protection systems. The food system must support low-cost and nutritionally diverse diets, healthy food environments, and positive practices. In addition, legislation, labeling, taxes, and marketing regulations are significant. In generating evidence, science and academia play a crucial role in accelerating the progress of SDG targets. This article reviews the nutritional problem in Egypt and concludes that long-term sustainable development in Egypt cannot be achieved unless malnutrition is effectively addressed (especially in anemia among preschool and school children, exclusive breastfeeding, and overweight and obesity in adolescents and adults).

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Socio-behavioral Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in Egyptian Primary School Children

Cited by 30 publications

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Malnutrition and Its Associated Factors among Rural School Children in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

Malnutrition and Its Associated Factors among Rural School Children in Fayoum Governorate, Egypt

<p>Contribution of Home and School Environment in Children’s Food Choice and Overweight/Obesity Prevalence in African Context: Evidence for Creating Enabling Healthful Food Environment</p>

Progress in Egypt’s Sustainable Development Goals from a Public Health Nutrition Perspective

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