• Alejandro Martínez Espinosa.
• Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales (CEDUA), El Colegio de México, Ciudad de México, México.
• Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex. 2018 Jan 1; 75 (2): 104-112.

BackgroundInternational 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).MethodA 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.ResultsAfter 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.ConclusionsHousehold features are crucial factors for understanding the overweight and obesity prevalence levels in Mexican school-age children, despite the mother having a paid job.Copyright: © 2018 Permanyer.

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