Recorded: EIP 2015 ● Language: English ● Duration: 16 minutes ● Topic: Adolescent Medicine

     
 

Speaker: MARGARETHA DE LOOZE, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
at Utrecht University, The Netherlands

  
     
  Learning Objectives: At the end of the Session participants will: (1) understand the complex epidemiology of overweight in kids; (2) learn the time trends in the prevalence of overweight in 11-, 13-, and 15-year olds in 25 countries in the HBSC survey from 2002- 2010; and (3) understand the geographic patterns in overweight prevalence trends during these 3 survey cycles of the HBSC study