MAPEAMENTO DA PREVALÊNCIA DE DESNUTRIÇÃO E EXCESSO DE PESO EM ESTUDANTES DA REDE PÚBLICA DE ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL DE PRESIDENTE KENNEDY, ES
MAPEAMENTO DA PREVALÊNCIA DE DESNUTRIÇÃO E EXCESSO DE PESO EM ESTUDANTES DA REDE PÚBLICA DE ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL DE PRESIDENTE KENNEDY, ES
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.7652405046
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Palavras-chave: Desnutrição. Sobrepeso. Obesidade. Criança. Adolescente. Sistemas de Informação Geográfica. Política Pública de Saúde.
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Keywords: Malnutrition. Overweight. Obesity. Child. Teenager. Geographical information systems. Public Health Policy.
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Abstract: Introduction: Obesity, characterized by the accumulation of body fat, is a global public health problem, including in childhood, due to its association with chronic noncommunicable diseases. Obesity rates in children and adolescents have increased worldwide from 1.0% in 1975 to 6.0% in girls and 8.0% in boys in 2016, and may be associated with the nutritional transition process. Objective: To analyze the prevalence of malnutrition and overweight in public elementary school students and its distribution throughout the geographic space of Presidente Kennedy-ES, to indicate the magnitude of the occurrence of the double burden of malnutrition. Methodology: A descriptive and cross-sectional study, including schoolchildren aged six to 15 years, regularly enrolled in the public school network of Presidente Kennedy-ES, Brazil, in 2018. The variables were provided by the Municipal Secretariat of Education and included: date of birth, date of assessment, gender, weight, height, school grade, shift, and school. Geoprocessing techniques were used to evaluate the spatial distribution of the prevalence of malnutrition and overweight. Data were analyzed in SPSS for Windows software using descriptive statistics techniques such as frequencies, percentages and data summary measures such as mean, median and standard deviation. Study approved by the Research Ethics Committee of EMESCAM (opinion no. 3.947.888). Results: We evaluated 971 students, mean age 11±3 years and homogeneous distribution between boys (51.8%) and girls (48.2%). The mean weight, height and BMI (Body Mass Index) were 44.3±17.1 kg, 148.0±17.0 cm and 19.6±4.6 kg/m2, respectively. Among the students, thinness (3.0%), eutrophy (61.9%), overweight (20.6%), and obesity (14.5%) were diagnosed. Furthermore, 98.8% of the students had appropriate height for their age. In the geoprocessing analysis, a variation between schools was observed, with no significant demonstration in relation to the location of schools and the outcome of malnutrition and overweight. Conclusion: Adequacy of height for age and high prevalence of overweight among schoolchildren were observed, indicating that the city is in an advanced stage of nutritional transition.
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