Socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 study
Childhood and adolescence are key determining stages for health behaviour in the life course. Frequently, health-related attitudes and patterns of behaviour that develop at young age are also maintained at adult age. As studies show, already during childhood and adolescence, patterns of health risk...
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| author | Benjamin Kuntz Julia Waldhauer Johannes Zeiher Jonas D. Finger Thomas Lampert |
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| description | Childhood and adolescence are key determining stages for health behaviour in the life course. Frequently, health-related attitudes and patterns of behaviour that develop at young age are also maintained at adult age. As studies show, already during childhood and adolescence, patterns of health risk behaviour are more common in certain population groups. KiGGS Wave 2 results confirm that 3- to 17-year-old children and adolescents from families with low socioeconomic status (SES) eat a less healthy diet, do fewer sports and are more often overweight or obese than their peers from more affluent backgrounds. Whereas socioeconomic differences appear to have little effect on levels of alcohol consumption among 11- to 17 year-olds, girls and boys with low SES smoke more frequently than their peers with high SES. Prevention and health promotion encourage children and adolescents to adopt healthy lifestyles, and aim to drive structural changes to stimulate behaviour which promotes good health. Combining measures that target individual behaviour and a settings-based approach appears to be the most promising preventative approach to reduce health inequalities among young people. Due to the clear impacts of socioeconomic differences on health behaviour already at young age measures for disadvantaged children and adolescents and their living conditions should be given an even stronger focus in the future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b2bda47730448a1b5ce800924422ab62024-02-19T07:46:45ZdeuRobert Koch InstituteJournal of Health Monitoring2511-27082018-06-0132446010.17886/RKI-GBE-2018-072johm-3-2-44Socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 studyBenjamin Kuntz0Julia Waldhauer1Johannes Zeiher2Jonas D. Finger3Thomas Lampert4Robert Koch Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringRobert Koch Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringRobert Koch Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringRobert Koch Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringRobert Koch Institute, Department of Epidemiology and Health MonitoringChildhood and adolescence are key determining stages for health behaviour in the life course. Frequently, health-related attitudes and patterns of behaviour that develop at young age are also maintained at adult age. As studies show, already during childhood and adolescence, patterns of health risk behaviour are more common in certain population groups. KiGGS Wave 2 results confirm that 3- to 17-year-old children and adolescents from families with low socioeconomic status (SES) eat a less healthy diet, do fewer sports and are more often overweight or obese than their peers from more affluent backgrounds. Whereas socioeconomic differences appear to have little effect on levels of alcohol consumption among 11- to 17 year-olds, girls and boys with low SES smoke more frequently than their peers with high SES. Prevention and health promotion encourage children and adolescents to adopt healthy lifestyles, and aim to drive structural changes to stimulate behaviour which promotes good health. Combining measures that target individual behaviour and a settings-based approach appears to be the most promising preventative approach to reduce health inequalities among young people. Due to the clear impacts of socioeconomic differences on health behaviour already at young age measures for disadvantaged children and adolescents and their living conditions should be given an even stronger focus in the future.https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Health_Monitoring/Health_Reporting/GBEDownloadsJ/Focus_en/JoHM_02_2018_Differences_Health_Behaviour_KiGGS-Wave2.pdf?__blob=publicationFilesocioeconomic statusphysical activitydiethealth monitoringkiggs |
| spellingShingle | Benjamin Kuntz Julia Waldhauer Johannes Zeiher Jonas D. Finger Thomas Lampert Socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 study Journal of Health Monitoring socioeconomic status physical activity diet health monitoring kiggs |
| title | Socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 study |
| title_full | Socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 study |
| title_fullStr | Socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 study |
| title_short | Socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in Germany. Results of the cross-sectional KiGGS Wave 2 study |
| title_sort | socioeconomic differences in the health behaviour of children and adolescents in germany results of the cross sectional kiggs wave 2 study |
| topic | socioeconomic status physical activity diet health monitoring kiggs |
| url | https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Health_Monitoring/Health_Reporting/GBEDownloadsJ/Focus_en/JoHM_02_2018_Differences_Health_Behaviour_KiGGS-Wave2.pdf?__blob=publicationFile |
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