Early Identification and Treatment of Obesity Issues Among Children

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................3
Literature:...................................................................................................................................3
Issues relating to the potential benefits (direct and indirect) and costs (direct and indirect).:...6
Table 1: Resources associated with Eating disorder screening and BMI screening in public
schools:...................................................................................................................................6
Table 2: The average cost of per person(Hypothetical estimates):........................................7
Table 3: Total cost related to screening of 200000 children..................................................7
Table 4: QALY’s Estimation.................................................................................................8
Table 5: Incremental costs, ICER and QALY’s.....................................................................8
Table 6: The lifetime prevalence of elevated BMI and prevalence of ED percentiles in U.S
children...................................................................................................................................9
Table 7: The hazard ratios of all‐cause mortality and standardized mortality rate of eating
disorders by BMI category...................................................................................................10
Analysis:...................................................................................................................................10
Conclusion and Recommendation:..........................................................................................13
References:...............................................................................................................................15
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Introduction:
The report will discuss the problem of increasing obesity issues among children across the
world. In the recent scenario, 28% o the children in Australia are suffering from Obesity and
day by day the number is increasing drastically. Overweight is another issues that stimulating
the obesity. In such condition it is very much important to produce a proper framework to
reduce the obesity in children. Early identification and treatment of the obesity issue can
reduce the risk of several chronic diseases and health consequences. Discussion will be done
on the early identification and treatment of weight control and disordered eating issues and
also how the early identification and treatment process prevents obesity progression amongst
the children and reduces the risk of several health issues. Moreover, it will discuss the
implementation of the BMI screening program in the school and the cost-effectiveness of the
program. How the state department of health is responsible to motivate every school to
implement the BMI screening program to early identify the obesity problem among the
children through measuring the BMI of the children. In addition, discussion will focus on
how the timely intervention of BMI screening helps to reduce the health and economic
burden of obesity among the children. The assignment will implement a cost-effective
analysis of the BMI screening program. In addition, it will provide future medical care tips to
prevent obesity and health-related issues and provides a recommendation to the government
of Australia to improve the BMI screening intervention program in the school of Australia.
Literature:
The article byForman et al., (2008), describes early identification and treatment of disordered
weight and how eating helps to control the behaviourof the children. It helps in preventing the
progression of health-related issues and reduces the risk of several chronic diseases and
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health consequences (Forman et al., 2008). In this article, national eating screening program
was first organized in the high schools across the United States. The national eating screening
program is held in the high school for identifying the eating disorder issues among the
children. The researchers found that 1 in 10 boys and 1 in 4 girls have 1 disorder weight or
eating control symptom (Eatingdisorders.org.au, 2019).
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Figure 1: Status of Obesity
(Source: www.nap.edu, 2019)
The researchers evaluated the disordered eatingandweightcontrol symptom by the health
professional to give them a warrant to improve the health condition. Researchers provide
them with a set of questionnaire and students of the school completed the self-report
careening questionnaires that include their eating attitude test, exercising to control weight,
vomiting issues, and binge eating. The questionnaires provided information about the
treatment of disordered eating. It is found that a large number of symptomatic students did
not take any treatment for an eating disorder. This research project provides a health strategy
to improve disordered eating issues and obesity issues among children (Forman et al., 2008).
This popular screening for weight control and an eating disorder in high school identify that
symptomatic students would benefit from the early popular screening intervention program. It
helps in preventing long term complication of obesity and disorder eating problem.
The Article byNihiseret al. (2009), focuses on main objective and background of the article
that the school-based BMI measurement system is a very effective approach. School-based
BMI measurement system has attracted the attention of the entire nation. This school-based
BMI measurement has a potential approach to reduces the issue of obesity among the youth
(Nihiser et al., 2009). The articles describe the effectiveness and impact of reducing the rate
of obesity, physical activity, and also provide information on the dietary that helps to
influences obesity. Researchers identify the number of concerns about the School-based
screening program that includes
1. Increasing dissatisfaction rate with the body image.
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