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Título: Economic crisis and obesity in the Canary Islands: an exploratory study through the relationship between body mass index and educational level
Autores/as: Hernández-Yumar, Aránzazu
Abásolo Alessón, Ignacio
González López-Valcárcel, Beatriz 
Clasificación UNESCO: 531207 Sanidad
Palabras clave: Obesity
Body mass index
Economic crisis
Social gradient
Canary Islands
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Publicación seriada: BMC Public Health 
Resumen: Background: The Canary Islands is one of the Spanish Regions with the highest obesity prevalence, and one of the Autonomous Communities that was hit hard by the economic crisis that arrived to Spain in 2008. This research studies the education-related inequalities in adult obesity in the Canary Islands and their evolution in recent years, considering the possible impact of the economic recession.Methods: A repeated cross-sectional analysis is carried out with data obtained from the Canary Islands Health Surveys of 2004, 2009 and 2015. Obesity is measured through the body mass index (BMI). The analysis is performed using linear regression models for the general population and by gender, adjusting by age, educational attainment and island of residence. Likewise, the models also include dummy variables for each year and the corresponding interactions between the years and the education variable.Results: The results show a decrease in the obesity prevalence in 2015 compared to 2009 (from 19.54 to 18.64%). An increase in the BMI of the population and that of women (+ 0.33 and + 0.59 units, respectively) in 2009, as well as a decline in the BMI of women with medium education (- 0.21 units) are also observed. Besides, there is an inverse correlation between education and BMI, and statistically significant differences among some islands.Conclusions: Obesity figures in the Canary Islands have decreased and women have been more greatly affected by the changes in BMI during the economic crisis. Due to the fact that educational attainment is a protective factor in general (and for women with medium education levels in times of crisis, in particular), regional authorities should implement actions that promote access to education and healthy lifestyles, paying attention to territorial disparities.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/60147
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-8098-x
Fuente: BMC public health [ISSN 1471-2458], v. 19, p. 1755
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