Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity in India: A Comprehensive Review

RUNNING HEAD: EPIDEMIOLOGY 1
Epidemiology of Childhood obesity
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EPIDEMIOLOGY 2
Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Study design.....................................................................................................................................3
Key patterns related with obesity....................................................................................................3
Results of the study..........................................................................................................................4
Epidemiology of Childhood Obesity: Indian data.......................................................................4
Children...................................................................................................................................4
Adolescent...............................................................................................................................4
Socio-demographic differentials..................................................................................................4
Gender......................................................................................................................................4
Socio-economic status (SES)...................................................................................................5
Place of residence....................................................................................................................5
Health nursing practices for childhood obesity...............................................................................5
Safeguarding holistic nursing assessment...................................................................................5
Body mass index measurement (BMI)........................................................................................5
Health promotion.........................................................................................................................5
Physical exercise..........................................................................................................................6
Promoting healthy diet.................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................8

EPIDEMIOLOGY 3
Introduction
The term obesity means excessive body fat. Obesity happens due to excess intake of
calories and insufficient physical activity or both. Obesity in childhood causes metabolic
syndrome, mental disorder, poor physical health, glucose intolerance and respiratory problems.
Furthermore, growing country like India has an issue of double burden as they have both
population of malnutrition and overweight. There is a deficiency of national representative
statistics on obesity in children from India with wide different social, cultural and geographical
norms. In India, 80% of overweigh 10-14 years old children’s are at threat of obese as in
comparison with 25% overweigh children who are less 5 years old. This report highlights the
epidemiology of childhood obesity which comprises of findings reported with consistent
information, incorporation of findings in community health nursing practice.
Study design
This report highlights a comprehensive database investigation strategy more similar to a
systematic approach of review and the article used in this report is “Epidemiology of childhood
overweight & obesity in India: A systematic review”. However, the evidence drawn is added to
existing body of investigation which shows similar conclusion and observations. In this report,
using the most important published articles like Embase, Pub Med, and Cochrane by using
specific terms like “obesity”, “overweight” “childhood obesity” and “epidemiology”. Further, for
effective investigation used peer-reviewed journal articles and articles available in English
Language were considered. Cross-references from different recognized peer-reviewed articles
were also taken to expand the coverage of the report. Furthermore, the article search was done
over different scientific domain from 2011-2019. Occurrence in the 1-5 age group are obtained
from national reviews and most of the researches in India are reported only on childhood obesity.
Key patterns related with obesity
Factors comprising age, socio-economic status and gender are linked with obesity.
Gender difference is highly observed in most of the countries with more females obese over
males. Further, patterns also emerged across on the basis of socio-economic groups. Meanwhile,
in emerging countries, this equation is reversed. The transition of a rural to urban existence is