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Front. Public Health
Sec. Life-Course Epidemiology and Social Inequalities in Health
Volume 12 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1399276
This article is part of the Research Topic Examining Upstream to Understand Downstream: Use of Telehealth and Other Health Equity Measures for Addressing Health Disparities View all 7 articles

Childhood Obesity and comorbidities-related perspective and experience of parents from Black and Asian Minority Ethnicities in England; a Qualitative Study

Provisionally accepted
George P. Obita George P. Obita 1Mark Burns Mark Burns 2Chia-Hua Kuo Chia-Hua Kuo 3Lawrence A. Nnyanzi Lawrence A. Nnyanzi 1Noel C. Barengo Noel C. Barengo 4Ahmad Alkhatib Ahmad Alkhatib 3,5*
  • 1 Teesside University, Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom
  • 2 James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
  • 3 University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 4 Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States
  • 5 Birmingham City University, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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    We are pleased to submit the manuscript "Childhood Obesity and comorbidities-related perspective and experience of parents from Black and Asian Minority Ethnicities in England; a Qualitative Study". Childhood obesity and associated comorbidities are an important global public health concern, and so it is important to address prevention in high-risk ethnic minority communities through this qualitative research. The study contextualises factors influencing childhood obesity and related comorbidity and pave the way to better inform healthcare preventative interventions, especially lifestyle physical activity and nutrition interventions, associated healthcare policies for high-risk minority ethnic populations. It contributes to matching the government childhood obesity prevention programmes with the perceptions and needs of high-risk ethnic minority communities so that obesity prevention in minority ethnicities are more equitable.

    Keywords: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources

    Received: 11 Mar 2024; Accepted: 23 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Obita, Burns, Kuo, Nnyanzi, Barengo and Alkhatib. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ahmad Alkhatib, University of Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

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