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Measurement challenges for childhood obesity research within and between Latin America and the United States
Obesity reviews, v 22(3), pp e13242-n/a
01 Jun 2021
PMID: 33942975
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Abstract
Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge across Latin America and the United States. Addressing childhood obesity depends on valid, reliable, and culturally sensitive measurements. Such progress within and between countries of the Americas could be enhanced through better measurement across different age groups, different countries, and in sending and receiving communities. Additionally, better and more comparable measurements could accelerate cross-border collaboration and learning. Here, we present (1) frameworks that influenced our perspectives on childhood obesity and measurement needs across the Americas; (2) a summary of resources and guidance available concerning measurement and adaptation of measures for childhood obesity research; and (3) three major areas that present challenges and opportunities for measurement advances related to childhood obesity, including parental behavior, acculturation, and the potential to incorporate ethnographic methods to identify critical factors related to economics and globalization. Progress to reduce childhood obesity across the Americas could be accelerated by further transnational collaboration aimed at improving measurement for better surveillance, intervention development and evaluation, implementation research, and evaluation of natural experiments. Additionally, there is a need to improve training related to measurement and for improving access to valid and reliable measures in Spanish and other languages common in the Americas.
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- Title
- Measurement challenges for childhood obesity research within and between Latin America and the United States
- Creators
- David Berrigan - National Institutes of HealthS. Sonia Arteaga - Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes Program Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health Bethesda Maryland USAUriyoan Colon-Ramos - Milken InstituteLisa G. Rosas - Stanford UniversityRafael Monge-Rojas - Nutrition and Health Unit, Costa Rican Institute for Research and Education on Nutrition and Health (INCIENSA), Ministry of Health, Tres Ríos, Costa Rica.Teresia M. O'Connor - Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of MedicineRafael Perez-Escamilla - Yale UniversityElizabeth F. S. Roberts - University of MichiganBrisa Sanchez - Drexel UniversityMartha Maria Tellez-Rojo - National Institute of Public HealthSusan Vorkoper - Fogarty International CenterCross Borders Working Grp
- Publication Details
- Obesity reviews, v 22(3), pp e13242-n/a
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 15
- Grant note
- Wenner-Gren Foundation R01HL131610; R01HL136718 / NIH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA 5 U48DP006380-02-00 / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevention Research Center Program; United States Department of Health & Human Services; Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000646772900001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85105056412
- Other Identifier
- 991020099211304721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Endocrinology & Metabolism