Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis

This article discusses the factors, interventions and barriers related to childhood obesity, which is a major global public health crisis. Reliable sources such as MEDLINE and CINHAL have been used to support the findings. The article identifies that many factors influence child obesity and effective interventions have been taken to address the issue. However, many barriers have created obstacles in the way of managing the epidemic, from which financial problem and stigmatization of the obese children is two main factors that influence obesity. The article is relevant to the current health care condition and the findings would help to bring change in the health care system. Effective research has been conducted by the researchers to support the findings of the study. The findings of the article would help to understand the factors influencing childhood obesity in depth. It would help to introduce relevant interventions to reduce the effect of the factors in future. Implementation of behavioral, family-based, school-based and hospital-based interventions would help to address the issue and provide healthy lifestyle to the children in future.

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Article:
Childhood Obesity: A Global
Public Health Crisis
Author:
Sameera Karnik and Amar
Kanekar

Introduction
• Child obesity has become a major health issue worldwide
and prevalence of child obesity become higher in the last few
years.
• The focus of the study is to identify the major factors that
influence child obesity, various interventions taken by the
government and barriers in managing the illness.
• The study has used secondary research such as material from
CINHAL, MEDLINE and other academic research paper from
1999- 2011 to collect information.

Introduction
• The study has identified that
– many factors are present that influence child
obesity.
– Effective interventions have been taken to
address the issue.
– However, many barriers have created
obstacles in the way of managing the
epidemic, from which financial problem and
stigmatization of the obese children is two
main factors that influence obesity(Karnik &
Kanekar, 2012).

The graph is showing increasing rate of obesity in the children and adolescent from the year 1963
to 2008 (Karnik & Kanekar, 2012).

Relevance of the article to current health care
condition
• Child hood obesity is one of the main reasons of the
increasing burden of health care system and it has become
epidemic in the recent year (Dehghan, Akhtar-Danesh &
Merchant, 2005).
• The consequence of childhood obesity includes diabetes,
cardiovascular disease and other non-communicable disease.
• The factors and mechanism of obesity is not fully understood
and it is believed as a disorder (Sahoo et al., 2015).
• It is important to identify the factors influencing childhood
obesity and effective interventions to resolve the issue.

Relevance of the article to current health care
condition
• The article has used reliable source in order to identify the factors
influencing obesity, effective interventions and barriers in managing
obesity.
• It would help to understand the factors of obesity and help to
introduce effective strategies to counter the health issue.
• It can be said that the article is relevant to the currents health care
condition and the findings would help to bring change in the health
care system (Karnik & Kanekar, 2012).

Research conducted to support the information
• Effective research has been conducted by the
researchers to support the findings of the study.
• Relevant materials have been collected from MEDLINE,
CINHAL and other academic research paper and the
data base has been used to propose the findings with
evidence.
• The data has been collected from the research carried
out for the time period 1999-2011 (Karnik & Kanekar,
2012).

Impact of the article on future
• The findings of the article would help to understand the
factors influencing childhood obesity in depth. It would
help to introduce relevant interventions to reduce the
effect of the factors in future.
• The information regarding the consequence of childhood
obesity such as psychological and social health related
problem and other health issues like diabetes and
cardiovascular risk would help the people to become
aware and introduce healthy eating habit for the children
(Karnik & Kanekar, 2012).

Impact of the article on future
• Implementation of behavioral, family-based,
school-based and hospital-based interventions
would help to address the issue and provide
healthy lifestyle to the children in future.
• The identification of barriers has a positive impact
as it would help to prepare effective strategies to
counter the barriers and implement the
interventions in an effective manner (Karnik &
Kanekar, 2012).

Personal thoughts
• The information provided by the article is helpful in
order to understand the factors that influence
childhood obesity such as genetic factors,
environmental factors and behavioral factors.
• The information regarding the consequence would
help to create awareness in individual level so that
the parents could understand the importance of
proper diet in the growth and well-being of their
child.

Personal thoughts
• The interventions discussed by the article are
useful in order to reduce the rate of childhood
obesity. Especially the way of presenting the
information with different field such
behavioral, school-based, family-based and
hospital based intervention would help to
understand the interventions in a better way.
• The challenges identified by the research
would help to prepare strategies in order to
counter them and implement the interventions
in future in an effective manner.

Reference
Dehghan, M., Akhtar-Danesh, N., & Merchant, A. T. (2005). Childhood obesity, prevalence and
prevention.
Nutrition journal,
4(1), 24. Retrieved from
https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-4-24
Karnik, S., & Kanekar, A. (2012). Childhood obesity: a global public health crisis.
Int J Prev Med,
3(1), 1-7.
Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3278864/
Sahoo, K., Sahoo, B., Choudhury, A. K., Sofi, N. Y., Kumar, R., & Bhadoria, A. S. (2015). Childhood obesity: causes
and consequences.
Journal of family medicine and primary care,
4(2), 187. Retrieved from
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4408699/