School environments and obesity: a systematic review of interventions and policies among school-age students in Latin America and the Caribbean

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dc.contributor.affiliationPontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Psicología
dc.contributor.authorVega-Salas, M.J.
dc.contributor.authorMurray, C.
dc.contributor.authorNunes, R.
dc.contributor.authorHidalgo-Aréstegui, A.
dc.contributor.authorCuri-Quinto, K.
dc.contributor.authorPenny, M.E.
dc.contributor.authorCueto, S.
dc.contributor.authorLovegrove, J.A.
dc.contributor.authorSánchez, A.
dc.contributor.authorVimaleswaran, K.S.
dc.date.accessioned2026-03-13T17:00:50Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThe rapid rise in obesity rates among school children in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) could have a direct impact on the region’s physical and mental health, disability, and mortality. This review presents the available interventions likely to reduce, mitigate and/or prevent obesity among school children in LAC by modifying the food and built environments within and around schools.
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding: This review was funded by PROCIENCIA (CONCYTEC/FONDECYT) grant number 030-2019, the British Embassy, the MRC grant (MR/S024778/1) and Newton Fund; and the Old Dart Foundatión. The funders had no role in the desión, collection, analysis, or interpretatión of the present study, or in the decisión to publish.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-022-01226-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14657/206763
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.relation.ispartofurn:issn:2155-9880
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.sourceInterNational Journal of Obesity; Vol. 47, Núm. 1 (2023)
dc.subjectChildhood obesity
dc.subjectSchool interventions
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subject.ocdehttps://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.01
dc.titleSchool environments and obesity: a systematic review of interventions and policies among school-age students in Latin America and the Caribbean
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bc
dc.type.otherArtículo de revisión
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