Childhood Obesity: Future Direction and Education Priorities
Poster Presentation
Paper ID : 1743-SSRC
Authors
1Iran University and Medical Science
2University of Malaya
Abstract
Introduction:
Obesity and overweight are important complications in public health as they contribute to illness and deaths. After the Second World War emaciation and malnutrition were an important and serious problem because infectious diseases were common, public health was very weak and there was insufficient food and drugs. After this time technology and medicine made huge advances, countries developed, food production increased, life become easier and longer and sedentary activities were growing and then obesity became widespread.
Purpose:
Obesity is important to study in public health because it is related to higher disease and death rates and obesity has many physical and psychosocial outcomes. Students spend an appreciable amount of time at school; apart from the home they spent the most time there. Thus, PE in schools potentially can make a strong impact on students’ fitness and motivate them to enjoy an active lifestyle.
Methodology:
Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is a well-established methodology for identifying relationships among specific variables, which define a problem or an issue. In this study, most important variables that have critical role in children obesity problem were introduce by ISM questionnaire technique and their relationships were determine.
Result:
The results of questionnaire-based interpretive structural modeling technique (ISM). The importance of obesity and overweight is sedentary activities that are most critical variables. Obese children have greater potential to turn into obese adults.
Conclusion:
Obesity and overweight are the main public health problems all over the world among different groups of age. Our findings suggested that sedentary activities are top level variables and school teachers and administrators, public education and scientific collaborations are bottom level variables in children obesity problem. Control of dietary, Physical education program, parents, government and motivation strategies variables are depending to other variables. Also, physical education program, parents, government, motivation, school teachers and administrators, public education and collaboration variables have strong driving power. They are linkage factors; it means that they can be effective on children obesity problem directly.
Obesity and overweight are important complications in public health as they contribute to illness and deaths. After the Second World War emaciation and malnutrition were an important and serious problem because infectious diseases were common, public health was very weak and there was insufficient food and drugs. After this time technology and medicine made huge advances, countries developed, food production increased, life become easier and longer and sedentary activities were growing and then obesity became widespread.
Purpose:
Obesity is important to study in public health because it is related to higher disease and death rates and obesity has many physical and psychosocial outcomes. Students spend an appreciable amount of time at school; apart from the home they spent the most time there. Thus, PE in schools potentially can make a strong impact on students’ fitness and motivate them to enjoy an active lifestyle.
Methodology:
Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM) is a well-established methodology for identifying relationships among specific variables, which define a problem or an issue. In this study, most important variables that have critical role in children obesity problem were introduce by ISM questionnaire technique and their relationships were determine.
Result:
The results of questionnaire-based interpretive structural modeling technique (ISM). The importance of obesity and overweight is sedentary activities that are most critical variables. Obese children have greater potential to turn into obese adults.
Conclusion:
Obesity and overweight are the main public health problems all over the world among different groups of age. Our findings suggested that sedentary activities are top level variables and school teachers and administrators, public education and scientific collaborations are bottom level variables in children obesity problem. Control of dietary, Physical education program, parents, government and motivation strategies variables are depending to other variables. Also, physical education program, parents, government, motivation, school teachers and administrators, public education and collaboration variables have strong driving power. They are linkage factors; it means that they can be effective on children obesity problem directly.
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