Global Child Obesity | Social Determinants of Health

Running head: CHILD OBESITY
Global Child Obesity
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Introduction
Obesity in children is one of the 21st century's most important public health
challenges. The problem is worldwide and especially in urban areas which continually
impacts many countries with low and middle incomes. Increased prevalence has been
troubling. Currently there are projected to be over 41 million children under the age of five in
2016. Nearly half of all overweight children under the age of five lived in Asia and a fourth
lived in Africa (World Health Organization, 2020).
Obesity has always been a serious problem in The World since a long time and
recently the section of child obesity had gained a serious concern regarding that. The issue of
child obesity has always been a complex one. The nutritional behavior and the genetics had
always been among the primary cause of obesity among the children throughout the world
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020).
Body mass Index is one prime solution towards identification of obesity among
children. The body mass index ia a way of measurement of the fats in the body based on the
measurement of weight and the height deciding that if an individual is having BMI less than
18.5 then the individual can be stated low on nutritious food or underweight. On the other had
it states that a BMI within 25 to 29.5 is overweight and BMI more than 30 depicts obesity for
an individual (nhlbi.nih.gov, 2020).
Discussion
A survey was performed among 3-5 year old preschoolers in the state of California
and it was found that adjectives have certain impacts on the physic of a child. Results came
up after a deep statistical analysis which reviewed that after a repeated ANOVA calculation
using adjectives (Positive, negative), Age (3, 4, 5), and Sex (Boys), F(1, 211)= 60,40, p <
001, g2, p= 2,222 revealed a weight disparity in comparison to thinner numbers when

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opposed to negative adjectives (see table 1). Age or age did not have any primary effect, but
the meaning of the Adjective 9 was Gender difference, F(1, 211)= 4.83, p=.03, g2 p=.02,
which resulted in girls weighing more than boys. The parameter 9 Age, F(2, 211)= 5.67, p
< .01, g2 p=.05, was also important, with 5-year-olds having a higher weight difference as
compared to 3-year-olds (Harriger et al. 2019).
According to a report of 03rd October 2019 survey in the United Kingdom, it was
found that, 250 million school-aged students will be considered as obese by the year of 2030.
Moreover, the current records states that more than 158 million school aged students are
presently falling in the category of obese (Hunt, 2019).
Like old days, the child obesity these days are turning out as severe threat for the
society. Several reports have been published in past years among several government reports.
The recent reports published on 11th October 19 states that a survey had been done by the
United Kingdom’s National Health Services among schools older than 10 to 11 years.
According to this survey among 26000 children it was found that 4.4 percent of that
population are severely obese and a population of 20.2 percent are moderately obese (Yeung.,
2019).
The reports also states that till the last, which was apparently the fourth consecutive
year when survey for obesity among children was done, it was found that obesity is running
to new hikes. The reports when first published by the National Health organization (NHS) it
was found that after the survey of the year 2006, 2.4 percent of the children (10300) are
considered as obese (Yeung., 2019).
Biasedness due to immense increase in weight has always been noted but an
observation run for biasedness had never been made among the parents with obese children.
It was also calculated the explicit and implicit disparity in parent with biased nature for