{"id":517,"date":"2012-05-03T08:05:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T08:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijph.blogs.springer.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2012-05-03T08:05:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T08:05:22","slug":"health-behaviour-in-school-aged-children-study-hbsc-20092010-report-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/announcements\/health-behaviour-in-school-aged-children-study-hbsc-20092010-report-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study (HBSC): 2009\/2010 report is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbsc.org\/\">HBSC <\/a>is a cross-national study that has been researching health behaviour amongst 11-15 year olds since 30 years! Data is collected every 4 years in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hbsc.org\/membership\/countries\/index.html\">43 different countries <\/a>and the research is conducted in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/home\">WHO Regional Office of Europe. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>HBSC has<a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/en\/what-we-do\/health-topics\/Life-stages\/child-and-adolescent-health\/publications\/2012\/social-determinants-of-health-and-well-being-among-young-people.-health-behaviour-in-school-aged-children-hbsc-study\"> just published<\/a> its 2009\/2010 survey data on Social determinants of health and well-being among young people. You can download a full version of the report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro.who.int\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0003\/163857\/Social-determinants-of-health-and-well-being-among-young-people.pdf\">here <\/a>. This particular survey covered 39 countries<br \/>\nand regions across Europe and North America, examined more than 60 topics and involved over 200 000 children and young people. Some interesting key findings, demonstrating health inequalities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health patterns vary across countries suggesting that social, cultural and economic contexts<br \/>\nwithin countries may influence young people\u2019s health and health behaviours and<br \/>\nconsequently create health inequalities between countries and regions. Rates of overweight and obesity for girls, for example, range from 30% in the United States to only 5% in Switzerland. Smoking rates, although fairly similar at age 11 (less than 1%), differ dramatically across countries by age 15. Austria and Lithuania show smoking rates of over 25% for 15\u2010year\u2010old boys and girls, but the rate is 10% in Norway and Portugal<\/li>\n<li>Health\u2010compromising behaviours show increasing prevalence with age and with decreasing<br \/>\nfamily affluence. For example, 18% of 15\u2010year\u2010olds report smoking on a weekly basis and 21% report drinking, with 26% being sexually active<\/li>\n<li>Boys and girls adopt different healthy and unhealthy behaviours, with some differences<br \/>\nemerging or increasing during adolescence and potentially contributing to gender<br \/>\ninequalities in adulthood. For example, girls are more likely to engage in health\u2010promoting behaviours such as eating fruit, brushing their teeth and limiting soft drink intake, but almost 10% skip breakfast daily by age 15 and 40% are unsatisfied with their bodies \u2013 almost double the rate for boys.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Make sure you read more from this very interesting report! From your experience, which results were expected? And which ones surpriese you?<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/HBSCStudy\">follow HBSC<\/a> on twitter or keep in touch on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/HBSC-Study\/278893912202573\">facebook<\/a>! Happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">The HBSC is a cross-national study that has been researching health behaviour amongst 11-15 year olds since 30 years! Data is collected every 4 years in 43 different countries and the research is conducted in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office of Europe. HBSC has just published its 2009\/2010 survey data on Social determinants of&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/announcements\/health-behaviour-in-school-aged-children-study-hbsc-20092010-report-is-out\/\" title=\"Read Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study (HBSC): 2009\/2010 report is out!\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[39,153,355,362,803,805,947],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-hot-off-the-press","tag-adolescents","tag-children","tag-hbsc","tag-health-behaviour-in-school-aged-children-study","tag-social-determinants-of-health","tag-social-inequalities","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.springer.com\/ijph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}