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2010, Number 595

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Rev Med Cos Cen 2010; 67 (595)

Determinantes del sobrepeso entre los escolares en el área de Salud de Ciudad Quesada en el año 2009

Miranda JB

Language: Spanish
References: 10
Page: 485-491
PDF size: 562.48 Kb.


ABSTRACT

The development of over-weight in the infantile population is a problem of Public Health and given its morbility it is necessary to take measures that take to the prevention of the same one; for such a reason, an analysis is developed to determine the factors in the appearance of overweight among the scholars. It thinks about as general objective to determine the nutritional state of the students of first, third and sixth grades of the attributed schools to the analyzed sectors, with the purpose of identifying the possible factors that predispose to overweight. The investigation is carried out in the EBAIS of PúbLicACiudad Quesada, San Pablo and Los Angeles on the base from the program of Integral Attention to the children in the School Scenary. In conclusion, the decisive factors in the development of the overweight in the school children are the sedentarism and the dysfunctions of the alimentary behavior. Both they are increased with the age.


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