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Obesity And Health-related Physical Activity Behavior In Selected European Countries: Needs Assessment for the Eubohealth-consortium

The global burden of overweight and obesity is constantly rising for several decades. Physical activity (PA) is an essential determinant for health, prevention and treatment of many chronic diseases that are related to overweight and obesity. PURPOSE: In 2017, he EUBOHEALTH-Consortium was founded with the intention to promote health and normal weight for citizens in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe. In order to prepare a large-scale scientific study proposal, a needs assessment in form of a metaanalysis of the initiating countries is being conducted. METHODS: A comparison of obesity prevalence and PA behavior between the countries of Croatia, Hungary, Estonia, Germany and the (estimated) European Union average is conduced based on the European Health Interview Survey (EHIS), wave 2 (Eurostat, 2014). Data on non-work-related PA and effort involved in performing work-related PA were used. In addition, the time spent in health-enhancing aerobic PA was assessed and subdivided into four categories: zero, one to 149, 150 to 200 and above 300 minutes per week. All subjects were aged 15 years or over. RESULTS: In all four observed countries, the obesity prevalence was higher than the European Union average of 15.4% (Croatia: 18.0%, Hungary: 20.6%, Estonia: 19.9%, Germany: 16.4%). On average, 48.8% of the population of the European Union are not engaged into health-enhancing aerobic PA (Croatia: 58.6%, Hungary: 43.4%, Estonia: 52.3%, Germany: 28.8%). The most severe heterogeneity can be observed in performing muscle strengthening activities (EU-average: 24.2%, Croatia: 9.6%, Hungary: 23.7%, Estonia: 15.4%, Germany: 44.1%). CONCLUSIONS: There is a substantial need for the promotion of health-enhancing PA to stop the rising burden of obesity associated disease in several (European) countries. No comparable data from the fifth member state (Serbia) were available. The EUBOHEALTH-Project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.