BACKGROUND Primary care has been viewed as an appropriate setting for childhood obesity management. Little is known about parents' views and experiences of obesity management within this clinical setting. These views and experiences need to be explored, as they could affect treatment success. OBJECTIVE To explore parents' views and experiences of primary care as a treatment setting for childh...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity disproportionately affects low-socioeconomic and diverse communities. After a national children's health care quality organization announced a request for programs addressing the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity, 80 programs were received. The objective of this study was to identify a best practice for addressing childhood obesity in low-socioeconomic a...

Obesity is currently a global public health problem. Obesity in early life increases the risk of long-term energy imbalance and adult obesity and its comorbidities, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Since infancy and childhood are critical periods for the adoption of food preferences and physical activity, prevention strategies must intervene in these early periods to promote healthy...

abstract background: obesity represents one of the most important nutritional problems worldwide.obesity in childhood can cause variety of health issues such as orthopedic, neurological, pulmonary and gastroenterological disorders in the future, although no side effects were reported from malignant obesity during childhood. in this paper, we presented a computer-aided diagnosis system to predic...

Obesity is the most common childhood disease and is widely acknowledged as having become a global epidemic. Well-recognized health consequences of childhood obesity exist, both during childhood and adulthood, affecting health and psychological and economic welfare. The importance of finding effective strategies for the management of childhood obesity has international significance with the publ...

In this paper we present a finite-time 3–5 years old childhood obesity model to study the evolution of obesity in the next years in the Spanish region of Valencia. After a statistical study, it can be seen that sociocultural characteristics determine the nutritional habits and the unhealthy ones such as high frequency of consumption of bakery, fried meals and soft drinks (BFS), which are preval...

introduction: childhood obesity is a growing global health problem, but in the view of medical ethics, obesity management in children is associated with challenges. method and materials: this study is a comprehensive review in english (cochrane library, and pubmed) and persian literature which pointed to the ethical aspects of pediatrics obesity management with content analysis. results: in the...

The project was funded as a bridge grant, which is designed to provide the research team with funds to fully develop the "Determinants of Childhood Obesity" proposal for funding; to develop partnerships with other universities skilled in childhood obesity research in minority populations; to recruit leading scientists in the field of childhood obesity to join the research team; and to allow the...

background: obesity is a major risk factor for chronic diseases and has a role on high blood pressure, diabetes type ii, etc., this review assesses the prevalence of iranian children obesity and overweight for different age categories and compares the three standard definitions of obesity. materials and methods: to retrieve desirable studies concerning childhood anthropometric data from differe...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether there is an association between neighbourhood deprivation and diagnosed childhood obesity, after accounting for family- and individual-level socio-demographic characteristics. METHODS An open cohort of all children aged 0-14 years was followed between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2010. Childhood residential locations were geocoded and classified according to ...