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Promoting health equity in European children: Design and methodology of the prospective EPHE (Epode for the Promotion of Health Equity) evaluation study
| dc.contributor.author | Mantziki, Krystallia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vassilopoulos, Achilleas | |
| dc.contributor.author | Radulian, Gabriella | |
| dc.contributor.author | Borys, Jean-Michel | |
| dc.contributor.author | du Plessis, Hugues | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gregório, Maria João | |
| dc.contributor.author | Graça, Pedro | |
| dc.contributor.author | de Henauw, Stefaan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Handjiev, Svetoslav | |
| dc.contributor.author | Visscher, Tommy LS | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-10-08T14:59:55Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-10-08T14:59:55Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Background: Reducing health inequalities is a top priority of the public health agendas in Europe. The EPHE project aims to analyse the added value of a community-based interventional programme based on EPODE methodology, adapted for the reduction of socio-economic inequalities in childhood obesity. The interventions that will be implemented by this project focus on four energy balance-related behaviours (fruit and vegetable consumption, tap water intake, physical inactivity, sleep duration) and their determinants. This article presents the design of the effect evaluation of the EPHE project. Methods/Design: This is a prospective two-year follow-up evaluation study, which will collect data on the energy balance-related behaviours and potential environmental determinants of 6–8 year olds, depending on the socioeconomic status of the parents. For this purpose a parental self-reported questionnaire is constructed. This assesses the socio-economic status of the parents (5 items) and the dietary (12 items), sedentary (2 items) and sleeping (4 items) behaviour of the child. Alongside potential family-environmental determinants are assessed. The EPHE parental questionnaire will be disseminated in schools of a selected medium-sized city in seven European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Portugal, Romania, The Netherlands). Discussion: This study will evaluate the effects of the EPHE community-based interventional programmes. Furthermore, it will provide evidence for children’s specific energy balance-related behaviours and family environmental determinants related to socio-economic inequalities, in seven European countries. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This manuscript arises from the project EPHE – Epode for the Promotion of Health Equity- which has received funding from the European Union, in the framework of the Health Programme, agreement number: 2011 12 09. The study protocol has undergone peer-review from the funding body. The EPHE Project is funded by the DG SanCO. Additional funding is contributed by Ferrero, Mars, Orangina-Schweppes together with Danone. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | doi:10.1186/1471-2458-14-303 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/9886 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | BioMedCentral | pt_PT |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2458-14-303.pdf | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Obesidade infantil | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Desigualdades em saúde | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Promoting health equity in European children: Design and methodology of the prospective EPHE (Epode for the Promotion of Health Equity) evaluation study | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 303 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | BMC Public Health | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 14 | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |