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

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. We analyzed the joint relationships between overweight and socioeconomic and demographic indicators in the Brazilian...

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Published in:Revista brasileira de epidemiologia 2015-06, Vol.18 (2), p.476-489
Main Authors: da Silva, Vladimir Schuindt, Souza, Israel, Silva, Diego Augusto Santos, Petroski, Edio Luiz, da Fonseca, Maria de Jesus Mendes
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adulto
Brazil - epidemiology
Epidemiologia
Estudos transversais
Fatores socioeconômicos
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Nutritional Status
Overweight - epidemiology
PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Segurança alimentar e nutricional
Sobrepeso
Socioeconomic Factors
Young Adult
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Summary: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. 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. 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. 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.
ISSN:1415-790X
1980-5497
1980-5497
1415-790X
DOI:10.1590/1980-5497201500020015