Childhood obesity [Lung and Initiative, 2000] has become a major problem for many countries
in recent years and addressing the obesity epidemic remains an outstanding public health issue.
Childhood especially in developed ...
Today’s high calorie diets and low physical activity levels contributes towards childhood obesity. Exergaming, a combination
of ”exercise” and ”gaming” was conceived as a
means of addressing this problem. In this paper ...
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also find that ...
Madden, David (David Patrick)(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2010-03)
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we take a
number of approaches to profile the change in obesity in Ireland over the
2002-2007 period. There is no evidence of either first or second order
stochastic ...
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset we calculate
concentration indices for the incidence of obesity for men and women. We
finder higher concentration indices for women than for men, but we also
find that ...
This paper proposes a new method of measuring obesity using Body Mass Index (BMI) data. Conventional measures which simply count the number of individuals with BMI in excess of an upper limit ignore the extent by which ...
Using the nationally representative Slan dataset of 2007 we analyse the relationship between self-reported and measured BMI. We find that self-reported BMI significantly underestimates obesity rates and suggest that the ...
The Children's Profile at School Entry (CPSE) was conducted by the UCD Geary Institute who have been commissioned by the Northside Partnership to assess the levels of school readiness in a designated disadvantaged community ...