Background: Childhood obesity preventive interventions should promote a healthy diet and physical activity at home and school. This study aims to describe a school-based childhood obesity preventive programme (POIBA Project) ...

El pasado jueves 18 de octubre, mientras tenía lugar la reunión anual de la Sociedad Española de Epidemiología en Santander, la muerte nos robó a nuestro amigo y colega Manel Nebot. Su ausencia gravitó sobre el encuentro, ...

The current doctoral thesis aims to know which individual and contextual factors determine risky alcohol consumption among adolescents, and concretely, to study the differences of consumption between rural and urban areas ...

Esta tesis tiene como objetivos evaluar el entorno alimentario alrededor de las escuelas de Barcelona en términos de proximidad y disponibilidad de establecimientos alimentarios y su relación con el nivel socioeconómico ...

Objective. We aimed to analyse the prevalence of having multiple lifestyle risk behaviours (LRB) and the potential relationship between excess weight (including overweight and obesity) and cumulative multiple LRB among ...

Background/nCharacterizing and comparing the determinant of cotinine concentrations in different populations should facilitate a better understanding of smoking patterns and addiction. This study describes and characterizes ...