Obesity and its prevention in children 6 -12 years by parents : Ba thesis project
Ronoh, Carren; Cheboi, Nixon (2016)
Ronoh, Carren
Cheboi, Nixon
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu
2016
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201702152409
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201702152409
Tiivistelmä
Overweight in childhood and adolescence is a vital community health issue because of its tremendously increasing widespread and related adverse medical and social inference . Last three decades, obesity or overweight has more than doubled across the world, an estimate of 43 million children younger than five years are obese or overweight (WHO, 2010). Therefore this project focuses on finding evidence based information on prevention of obesity and overweight in children and adolescents.
There are so many causes of obesity; biological, behavioral, social, environmental, and economic factors. According to the ecological systems theory (EST), childhood overweight is influenced by individual, family, and community factors. Studies also show that family characteristics and parenting styles shape children's activity patterns, dietary intake, and obesity risk.
The aim of this project is find effective ways of preventing overweight and obesity in children.The task is to find evidence-based information about prevention of obesity in children that will be a teaching material to Turku University of Applied Sciences on ways of preventing childhood overweight and obesity.
There are so many causes of obesity; biological, behavioral, social, environmental, and economic factors. According to the ecological systems theory (EST), childhood overweight is influenced by individual, family, and community factors. Studies also show that family characteristics and parenting styles shape children's activity patterns, dietary intake, and obesity risk.
The aim of this project is find effective ways of preventing overweight and obesity in children.The task is to find evidence-based information about prevention of obesity in children that will be a teaching material to Turku University of Applied Sciences on ways of preventing childhood overweight and obesity.