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UrbanKids

Urban and social environment and childhood obesity – a natural moving2health experiment

Photo: Edu Bayer / Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
Duration
2022-2024
Coordinator
Martine Vrijheid
Funded by
”la Caixa” Foundation

The aim of UrbanKids is to evaluate how changes in the urban and social environment affect weight gain and obesity in children, through a novel moving2health natural experiment approach. For this we will use a large longitudinal cohort of 1 million children and adolescents (aged 0-18 years) in Catalonia, with repeat measures of height and weight, registered in the electronic health records (EHRs) from primary care data between 2011 and 2020. The moving2health approach will focus on children who changed address and who thus provide a unique natural experiment design by changing their neighbourhood environment.

Total funding: 99.968,87€

Our Team

Principal Investigator (PI)

  • Martine Vrijheid
    Martine Vrijheid Research Professor and Head of the Environment and Health over the Lifecourse Programme

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