BACKGROUND Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood obesity prevalence differ according to a country's stage of nutrition transition. The aim of this study was to determine which socioeconomic factors influence inequalities in obesity prevalence in Chinese primary school children living in an urban setting. METHODS We assessed obesity prevalence among 9917 children aged 5-12 years from a strat...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of short stature (SS) and underweight in Jordan on a national level is unknown. This study aimed to investigate, on a national level, the prevalence of short stature (SS), underweight, overweight, and obesity among school aged children in Jordan. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2015 to January 2016 and included 2702 subjects aged 6-17 years....

background: dental caries is the most infective microbial dental disease. basic screening survey is an epidemiologic index for determination of caries prevalence. the aim of this study was assessment of caries free prevalence in 6, 12 & 15- year old school children in kerman during 5 years.   methods: in this cross-sectional, descriptive –analytic study, 15369 school children aged 6, 12 &15 yea...

background: socioeconomic status has been found to have a significant impact on the health as well as risk behaviors of adolescents across different contexts. this study was conducted to assess the effect of social relations adjusted by social class on physical and psychological well-being of adolescences in teheran, iran.     methods: this was a cross- sectional study and carried out on 1,742 ...

during the past decade, as depression was becoming increasingly evident at younger ages, a great deal of attention has been directed towards the diagnosis and treatment of depression in children and adolescents. a considerable amount of research has been focused on the prevalence of depressive symptoms in children and adolescents in western societies, but researches conducted on non western sam...

accidents are one of the mortality reasons and most important agents of disability in primary school children. in this research, educational needs of 10-12 years old children who studied in fourth and fifth class in governmental primary schools of tehran city about accident prevention are assessed by questionnaire. results showed that majority of children had correct performance and had low edu...

AIM The main aim of this research was to determine the influence of socioeconomic status and residence/living conditions on the status of oral health (e.g. health of mouth and teeth) in primary school students residing in Canton Central Bosnia. METHODS The study was designed as a cross-sectional study. Our research included two-phased stratified random sample of 804 participants. The quantita...

The aim of the study is to examine the possible dissociative effects of bilingualism on the complex and cognitively challenging task of reading. The underlying assumption is that there are two paths to reading: the lexical (semantic) path and the non-lexical (phonological) path. Bilingual individuals and monolingual individuals may assign different weights to these routes, preferring in a pract...