Correspondence between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators in the adult Brazilian population

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia

Souza, Israel¹  Silva, Vladimir Schuindt da¹  Silva, Diego Augusto Santos²  Fonseca, Maria de Jesus Mendes da³  Petroski, Edio Luiz² 

[1] Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, Seropédica, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil;Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

关键词: Adult;    Cross-sectional studies;    Epidemiology;    Overweight;    Socioeconomic factors;    Food security;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1980-5497201500020015

学科分类：过敏症与临床免疫学

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

OBJECTIVE: To verify the correlation between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators among Brazilian adults, using data from the Brazilian Household Budget Survey from 2008/2009. METHODS: We analyzed the joint relationships between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators in the Brazilian adult population (99,532,672 individuals), through the multiple correspondence analysis technique. RESULTS: The featured profile of the Brazilian adult population with regard to overweight was correlated with ages from 30 years of the most developed and economically social geographic regions of Brazil; however between genders, the correlation was in the opposite direction in the variables income, education, and subjective issues about life conditions related to food and nutrition security. CONCLUSION: By the joint relationship between overweight and selected demographic and socioeconomic indicators, the urgency of the development of strategies and/or preventive public health programs of health problems with overweight in the Brazilian adult population is suggested.

【 授权许可】

Unknown