Sistema di Sorveglianza OKkio alla SALUTE: Risultati 2010. (Surveillance System of OKkio alla Salute: Results 2010.)

摘要

In 2007 the Italian Ministry of Health promoted OKkio alla SALUTE, national nutritional surveillance system based on biannual cross-sectional surveys and coordinated by the National Institute of Health. It aims to estimate the prevalence of overweight and obesity among primary schoolchildren and to examine the behavioral factors associated. In the second round of data collection, carried out in 2010, of the 42,549 students weighed and measured with a standardized methodology 34% were overweight or obese. 9% of the children did not have breakfast and 68% consumed mid-morning calorific snacks; 23% did not consume fruits and vegetables daily; 22% of the children usually practiced physical activity for one hour a week. The methodology has been validated in collaboration with INRAN and some communication tools developed with the project Pinc. This surveillance system is a valuable tool to monitor the evolution of the obesity and may help to promote public health interventions.