TY  - GEN
T1  - Maternal employment and childhood obesity : a European perspective
A1  - Gwozdz,Wencke
A1  - Sousa-Posa,Alfonso
A1  - Reisch,Lucia A.
A1  - Ahrens,Wolfgang
A1  - Henauw,Stefaan de
A1  - Eiben,Gabriele
A1  - Fernandez-Alvira,Juan M.
A1  - Hadjigeorgiou,Charalampos
A1  - Kovacs,Eva
A1  - Lauria,Fabio
A1  - Veidebaum,Toomas
A1  - Williams,Garrath
A1  - Bammann,Karin
Y1  - 2013/06/11
N2  - The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer measures and information from nutritional diaries, we also investigate the effects of maternal employment on obesity's main drivers: calorie intake and physical activity. Our analysis provides little evidence for any association between maternal employment and childhood obesity, diet or physical activity.
KW  - Berufstätigkeit
KW  - Kind
KW  - Übergewicht
CY  - Hohenheim
PB  - Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
AD  - Garbenstr. 15, 70593 Stuttgart
UR  - http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2013/850
ER  -