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

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia

Vladimir Schuindt Da Silva¹  Israel Souza¹  Diego Augusto Santos Silva¹  Edio Luiz Petroski¹  Maria De Jesus Mendes Da Fonseca¹ 

关键词: Adult;    Cross-sectional studies;    Epidemiology;    Overweight;    Socioeconomic factors;    Food security;    Adulto;    Estudos transversais;    Epidemiologia;    Sobrepeso;    Fatores socioeconômicos;    Segurança alimentar e nutricional;   

DOI  :  10.1590/1980-5497201500020015

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.

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