97406 20220120225837.0 doi 10.3390/ijerph17249252 sideral 121724 ART-2020-121724 eng González-Álvarez, M.A. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-6271-4370 Global trends in child obesity: Are figures converging? 2020 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted Childhood obesity has become one of the most serious global health challenges of our time. The combined prevalence of overweight and obesity has rapidly increased worldwide during the last two decades, especially in some developing countries where obesity is reaching levels on a par with some industrialized countries, or even higher. This fast growth has occurred especially in countries in the midst of rapid social-economic transitions. Most international comparisons focus on the adult population while analyses focusing on the child population are more limited. Using the methodology developed by Phillips and Sul, this paper studies the worldwide evolution of children’s body mass index (BMI), overweight and obesity prevalence for a large sample of countries during the period 1975–2016. Our results indicate that the figures for BMI or the prevalence of obesity in different countries do not converge, while the opposite is the case for overweight prevalence in children. Furthermore, there is a non-linear relationship between obesity and income or human capital, indicating that low and middle-income countries require a strong initiative for health policies targeting obesity prevention. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/LMP71-18 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/ECO2015-65967-R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 3.39 2020 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 41 / 176 = 0.233 2020 Q1 T1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 118 / 272 = 0.434 2020 Q2 T2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH 68 / 203 = 0.335 2020 Q2 T2 0.747 2020 Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis 2020 Q2 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 2020 Q2 Pollution 2020 Q2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Lázaro-Alquézar, A. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5513-1567 Simón-Fernández, M.B. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6811-1020 4008 225 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Estruc.Hª Econ.y Eco.Pb. Área Economía Aplicada 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Análisis Económico Área Fund. Análisis Económico 17, 24 (2020), 9252 [1-20] Int. j. environ. res. public health International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 1660-4601 830918 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/97406/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 468477 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/97406/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:97406 articulos driver 2022-01-20-22:57:51 ARTICLE