PURPOSE To highlight the four International Curricula of Ophthalmic Education developed by the Task Forces of the International Council of Ophthalmology, published in Klinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde in November 2006. DESIGN A global perspective of developing educational curricula as tools to improve eye care. METHODS Review of the experience and conclusions of the four internatio...

INTRODUCTION States and communities are considering policy and environmental strategies, including enacting legislation, to reduce and prevent childhood obesity. One legislative approach has been to create task forces to understand key issues and develop a course of action. The goal of this study was to describe state-level, childhood obesity task forces in the United States created by legislat...

OBJECTIVE To assess the association between sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption and overweight in children from a Mediterranean country. DESIGN The children's dietary intake was measured using a semi-quantitative FFQ completed by the parents. Overall, 2512 questionnaires were returned and 837 children were removed, leaving a final sample of 1675 children, aged between 5 and 10 years. H...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the agreement between two international criteria for classification of children and adolescents nutritional status. METHODS The study included 778 girls and 863 boys aged from six to 13 years old. Body mass and height were measured and used to calculate the body mass index. Nutritional status was classified according to the cut-off points defined by the World Health O...

This report summarizes the conclusions of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE), a group of scientists who were convened by a secretariat at the Carter Center of Emory University six times during 1989-1992. The purpose of the ITFDE was to establish criteria and apply them systematically to evaluate the potential eradicability of other diseases in the aftermath of the Smal...

Abstract Background The association of social mobility, measured by parent education and childhood overweight obesity (OWOB) has been scarcely reported on. This study evaluated the associations between mobility OWOB at child age 6 10 years. Methods We analyzed data 4030 children parents participating in Generation R study. used generalized linear models controlling for potential confounders to ...

BACKGROUND Epidemiological data on obesity prevalence are scarce in Romanian population. Consequently, the aim of our study was to evaluate the prevalence of obesity and unhealthy behaviors among school children and adolescents from Bucharest, Romania. METHODS Cross-sectional study, 866 participants (53.2% girls, 46.8% boys, age range 6-18 years), selected by systematic sampling with probabil...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a public health problem in Canada. Accurate measurement of a health problem is crucial in defining its burden. The objective of this study is to compare the prevalence estimates of overweight and obesity in preschool children using three growth references. METHODS Weights and heights were measured on 1026 preschool children born in Newfoundland and Labrador (NL...

UNLABELLED Purpose of present study is to describe the prevalence and trend of overweight and obesity, as well as its co-existence with stunting, among youngsters in China, from 1982 to 2002. Data from children 7-17 years of age from three cross-sectional national surveys: "1982 China National Nutrition Survey" (5,334 boys and 4,793 girls), "1992 China National Nutrition Survey" (8,048 boys and...