{"id":1395,"date":"2019-03-20T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2019-03-20T20:34:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T11:34:16","slug":"new-paper-the-global-financial-crisis-and-overweight-among-children-of-single-parents-a-nationwide-10-year-birth-cohort-study-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/en\/blogs\/1395","title":{"rendered":"New paper: The Global Financial Crisis and Overweight among Children of Single Parents: A Nationwide 10-Year Birth Cohort Study in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We published a new paper from<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1660-4601\/16\/6\/1001\/htm\"> International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Evidence suggests that socioeconomically disadvantaged children may experience a greater increase in overweight risk during macroeconomic downturns. We examined whether inequalities in the risk of overweight between Japanese children from single- and two-parent households increased after the 2008 global financial crisis. We used data from ten waves (2001 to 2011) of a nationwide longitudinal survey following all Japanese children born within 2 weeks in 2001 (boys: n = 15,417, girls: n = 14,245). Child overweight was defined according to age- and sex-specific cut-offs for Body Mass Index (BMI). Interaction between a binary measure of crisis onset (September 2008) and single-parent status was assessed using generalized estimating equation models. Covariates included baseline household income and income loss during the crisis. Girls from single-parent households showed a greater increase in the odds of overweight after crisis onset (adjusted odds ratio (AOR), 1.23; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.04\u20131.46) compared to girls from households with two parents, regardless of household financial status. A similar though statistically non-significant trend was observed among boys (AOR, 1.10; 95% CI, 0.92\u20131.30). Child overweight risk by single-parent status may increase during macroeconomic downturns, at least among girls. Financial aid to single-parent households may not suffice to redress this gap.<\/p>\n<p><em>Koichiro Shiba and Naoki Kondo. The Global Financial Crisis and Overweight among Children of Single Parents: A Nationwide 10-Year Birth Cohort Study in Japan. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health<\/em>\u00a0<b>2019<\/b>,\u00a0<em>16<\/em>(6), 1001;<br \/>\ndoi:\u00a010.3390\/ijerph16061001<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We published a new paper from International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. Abstract Evid &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/en\/blogs\/1395\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;New paper: The Global Financial Crisis and Overweight among Children of Single Parents: A Nationwide 10-Year Birth Cohort Study in Japan&#8221; \u306e<\/span>\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1397,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions\/1397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/plaza.umin.ac.jp\/~naoki_kondo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}