4.4 Inequalities in Childhood Overweight

In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce, Vittal Katikireddi and Phil Broadbent discuss their research on inequalities in childhood overweight as part of European Public Health Week 2024, to coincide with Thursday’s theme, “Health through the life course: Breaking down silos”.

The papers discussed in this podcast are: 

• Broadbent, P., Shen, Y., Pearce, A. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2024) Trends in inequalities in childhood overweight and obesity prevalence: a repeat cross-sectional analysis of the Health Survey for England. Archives of Disease in Childhood. https://adc.bmj.com/content/109/3/233 
• Miall, N. and Pearce, A. (2024) Growing up in Scotland: obesity from early childhood to adolescence. Documentation. Obesity Action Scotland. https://www.obesityactionscotland.org/media/c2elenpt/gus-report-full-final.pdf 

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