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

• Main Authors: Vladimir Schuindt da Silva (Author), Israel Souza (Author), Diego Augusto Santos Silva (Author), Edio Luiz Petroski (Author), Maria de Jesus Mendes da Fonseca (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

<sec><title>OBJECTIVE:</title><p> 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.</p></sec><sec><title>METHODS:</title><p> 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.</p></sec><sec><title>RESULTS:</title><p> 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.</p></sec><sec><title>CONCLUSION:</title><p> 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.</p></sec>

Item Description

1415-790X
10.1590/1980-5497201500020015