Espinosa Alejandro Martínez
Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales (CEDUA), El Colegio de México, Ciudad de México, México.
Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex. 2018;75(2):104-112. doi: 10.24875/BMHIM.M18000015.
International evidence regarding the relationship between maternal employment and school-age children overweight and obesity shows divergent results. In Mexico, this relationship has not been confirmed by national data sets analysis. Consequently, the objective of this article was to evaluate the role of the mothers' participation in labor force related to excess body weight in Mexican school-age children (aged 5-11 years).
A cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 17,418 individuals from the National Health and Nutrition Survey 2012, applying binomial logistic regression models.
After controlling for individual, maternal and contextual features, the mothers' participation in labor force was associated with children body composition. However, when the household features (living arrangements, household ethnicity, size, food security and socioeconomic status) were incorporated, maternal employment was no longer statically significant.
Household features are crucial factors for understanding the overweight and obesity prevalence levels in Mexican school-age children, despite the mother having a paid job.
关于母亲就业与学龄儿童超重和肥胖之间关系的国际证据显示出不同的结果。在墨西哥，国家数据集分析尚未证实这种关系。因此，本文的目的是评估母亲参与劳动力市场与墨西哥学龄儿童（5至11岁）超重之间的关系。
对2012年全国健康与营养调查中的17418名个体样本进行横断面研究，应用二项逻辑回归模型。
在控制了个体、母亲和环境特征后，母亲参与劳动力市场与儿童身体组成有关。然而，当纳入家庭特征（居住安排、家庭种族、规模、食品安全和社会经济地位）时，母亲就业不再具有统计学意义。
尽管母亲有带薪工作，但家庭特征是理解墨西哥学龄儿童超重和肥胖患病率水平的关键因素。
