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The international multicentre study HBSC (Health Behaviour in Schoolaged Children) conducted since 1983 in collaboration with the World Health Organization, has been adopted in our country as the national adolescent health surveillance system since 2017. The main aim is to describe and understand health-related behaviour in 11-, 13- and 15-year-olds in approximately 50 countries between Europe and North America. The study investigated different aspects, such as nutrition, risk behaviors, school and family life and social media use. In addition, the latest survey involved 17-year-old adolescents and included a section on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Introduction: Obesity is a complex condition, now recognized as a pathology, as well as being a risk factor for other noninfectious diseases (diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, tumours etc.) The data from the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrate that obesity can also be an important factor for the development of complications in infectious diseases. International studies have shown that the prevalence of obesity has increased in many countries from about 1975, especially among youngsters, which threatens a new emergency for public health. With the encouragement of the WHO and the National Program Guardagnare Salute, the surveillance system OKkio alla SALUTE was launched in Italy in 2007, and since then, has collected data to estimate the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity and its associated risk factors. Materials and methods: Between 2008 and 2019 data were collected on children aged 8-9 years, on six occasions using samples that were representative at regional level (and sometimes at local health service level) using personnel who were trained using methods and instruments that were validated and the same throughout the country. Other information on possible associated variables was collected using four questionnaires which were completed by the children, their parents, their teachers and the head-teachers of the selected classes. Participation in the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative of the WHO European Region makes international comparisons possible. On the basis of the results obtained so far, a series of initiatives for communication and activities for prevention have been developed at national and local level.
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Introduction: Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Italian Obstetric Surveillance System (ItOSS) coordinated research activities to support health professionals and decision makers. The aim of this paper is to describe the results of the populationbased prospective study on SARS-CoV-2 infection among pregnant women during the first pandemic wave. Materials and methods: From the end of February 2020, ItOSS launched a prospective population-based cohort study enrolling all SARSCoV- 2 pregnant women admitted to any Italian hospital. Anamnestic and clinical information was collected in a structured form and entered in a web-based secure system by trained clinicians of any maternity unit.
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Despite growing strands of evidence indicate that learning processes can be fostered by making learners cognitively and bodily active, too often school considers learners as passive receivers of knowledge and tends to ignore the role of the body, thereby providing disembodied and too abstract teaching methods. We present a project in which experimental evidence on embodied cognition and active learning is used to devise a training for learning from text in primary school children. The evidence-based training, which exploits body and sensorimotor information, involves learning of information technology and can be easily incorporated into teaching settings and procedures. Both learning in presence and distant learning in Covid era can benefit from bringing the body back into the learning process. © 2020 CEUR-WS. All rights reserved.