Monday, December 7, 2009

The health of our teens depend on the social environment

The Directorate of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics Department of Health and Welfare focused on adolescent health in 3rd grade. Better to be from an affluent.

The study of DREES confirms what has already been demonstrated in adults and children in many developed countries. The social environment plays an r? The important state of health. In this study, the researchers show that influence body weight, but also oral health or wearing glasses. However, it has no effect on asthma, which draws an opposition between town and country. The study also provides interesting insights on the coverage.

Children frameworks are so big
In metropolitan France, 16.7% of adolescents are overweight, 4.3% are obese. Adolescents from socially disadvantaged environments are less stout: 9.8% of children of executives are overweight, compared to 23.4% among those whose father is a laborer.
23.5% of adolescents whose father is inactive (retired or housewives) are overweight against 21.0% for those whose father is ch? Mage and 15.8% if he has a job. In colleges located in rural education priority zones (ZEP), 20.9% of children are overweight cons 16.1% excluding PTA. As for obesity, it affects 1.4% of children of managers and 7.9% of workers' children.
Overweight is more common in eastern France (22.1%) and overseas (18.0% in the West Indies Guyane5 and 20.7% in Réunion). He is less in the Central East, West, Mediterranean.

A generation that grows
Between kindergarten and school, children of this generation have gained weight
While 13.6% and children aged 5-6 years were overweight and 3.3% obese, these same children, the percentages are respectively 16.5% and 4.3% in 3rd. These figures reflect an increase in problems of overweight between Kindergarten and 3rd class colleges.

5% of teens have at least two untreated decayed teeth
Nearly 5% of adolescents have at least two decayed teeth untreated. On average, adolescents 3rd cavities are 1.6, but more than half of them have no decayed teeth (52%), 13% had caries and 35% have at least two decayed teeth that be cured or not. Nearly 5% of adolescents have at least two decayed teeth untreated. Over 10% of students enrolled in PTA have at least two decayed teeth untreated cons just 4% of students outside PTA. Children whose father is a manager are 0.5% have two or more untreated decayed teeth against 2.8% of children whose father is employed and 8.5% for those whose father is a laborer.
The management of decay is more common in families where the father is employed person: 3.7% of adolescents have at least two decayed teeth untreated cons 9.7% if the father is ch? Mage.

Nearly 30% of teenagers in metropolitan wear corrective lens
A third student was considered a visual defect already known for one of the two eyes at least: 18.3% are nearsighted, farsighted 5.3%, 9.4% astigmatism, 1.8% had strabismus and finally 0 , 6% were partially sighted. Almost 28% of teens are wearing glasses or contact lenses, girls more frequently than the boys? Ons (32.0% against 24.5%). Students enrolled in PTA are less frequently equipped than their peers outside school PTA (24.2% against 28.9%). 28.9% of Grade 3 general feature against 22.7% for the 3rd technology, professional or SEGPA.
31% of children of officers or higher intellectual professions wear glasses or corrective lenses against 24.6% for those whose father is a laborer. The gap is 4 percentage points between skilled and unskilled. Children are more often equipped when the father is active or busy ch? Million (28.9% and 28.2%) than when it is inactive (22%).
On average 6% of vision problems not previously detected were identified in this study. The frequency of problems identified was higher in the gar? Ons than girls (6.9% against 5.3%). It is also higher for students enrolled in PTA (8.0% against 5.8%). Overseas, the percentage of spectacle wearers was 22.5% in the West Indies and Guiana, and only 10.7% in Réunion. The proportion of abnormalities detected during the exam is the same order of magnitude in the overseas departments and metropolitan France.

10% of asthmatics
9.3% of adolescents report having had asthma during the last twelve months
In metropolitan France, 15.4% of adolescents in grades 3rd report having had at least one asthma episode during their lifetime (17.3% for boys? Ons against 13.4% for girls). On average, 9.3% of adolescents are affected by current asthma. The prevalence of current asthma ranged from 11.2% in children whose father is a laborer to 5.4% when the father is a farmer. Confirmation with the size of the town since 6.7% of school adolescents in rural areas reported having current asthma against 11.3% of children living in towns (20 000 to 200 000 inhabitants) and 7.6% of students the Paris region. The geographical analysis shows a higher prevalence in the west, south-west, the Paris Basin for metropolitan France and Réunion to the DOM.

The vaccine against hepatitis B does not recipe
Nearly 100% of children are vaccinated against BCG, which is required for enrollment in the childcare group (nursery, childminder, school). Nearly 95% were re? U the first dose of measles-mumps-rubella (RRO1). The objective for Europe according to the World Health is 95% of vaccinated the? Age of two years. The proportion of children who re? U a second dose of MMR is high (RRO2, 61-66%) for children who have not been affected by the recommendation of a second dose of vaccine introduced in the immunization schedule in 1996.
80.5% of children of this? Have re ge? U six under recommended doses of DTP. Only 57.4% of children have re? U five doses recommended for pertussis booster shot. For the vaccine against hepatitis B, the coverage is less than 45%. This generation was not affected by the vaccination campaigns conducted in schools, which were discontinued in 1998.

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