Social determinants of disparities in weight among US children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To explore whether contextual variables attenuate disparities in weight among 18,639 US children and adolescents aged 2 to 18 years participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001 to 2010.

Methods

Disparities were assessed using the Symmetrized Rényi Index, a new measure that summarizes disparities in the severity of a disease, as well as the prevalence, across multiple population groups. Propensity score subclassification was used to ensure covariate balance between racial and ethnic subgroups and account for individual-level and contextual covariates.

Results

Before propensity score subclassification, significant disparities were evident in the prevalence of overweight and/or obesity and the degree of excess weight among overweigh

SUBMITTER: Rossen LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4669563 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature