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Volume 8
Journal of Obesity &Weight Loss Therapy
Obesity Summit 2018
July 10-11, 2018
July 10-11, 2018 Bangkok, Thailand
19
th
World Obesity Congress
J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C4-067
Three years follow up (cohort) study via population-based intervention on adolescent and childhood
obesity and overweight at schools setting
Hamid Yahya Hussein and Waleed Al Fiasal
University of Baghdad, Iraq
Background:
Obesity and overweight are recognized as major global public health phenomena. Its long-term consequences
are many of wide variety of chronic conditions including high blood pressure, type-2 diabetes, stroke, cardiovascular disease
and certain forms of cancer; which in turn are primary drivers of healthcare spending, disability and deaths, childhood obesity
is complex and multidimensional, which has been identified as a public health priority. It is also recognized that, obesity
decreases the quality of life and life expectancy considerably.
Objective:
To assess population-based childhood obesity intervention over three years at school population in Dubai and to
examine the childhood obesity intervention outcome.
Methodology:
About 2,60,0000 students age range (5-18) years grade (1-12) over about 180 private schools in Dubai over
three consequence academic years 2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017, BMI measurement as per CDC criteria and chart,
WHO (mean±SD) centile body weight at the beginning of each academic year (September), wide variety of interventions been
designed and applied, e.g., health promotion, school nutritional education activities, food labeling, happy schools initiatives,
10/10 initiative physical activity platform, parents awareness, students health file initiative, city makers (blue team initiative),
community participation (private-public partnership, governmental stockholders intersect oral collaborations, school canteen
policy and guideline, BMI and other age and gender based BMI and centile measurement done at the end of academic year
(June) for three successive academic years.
Result:
The current study revealed that about 8.7% of the total student’s population in private schools in Dubai were obese and
about 1.4% of the total students were morbid obese in total of 10.1% of the total students were obese of different severity. The
study showed that the prevalence of obesity among student population at private schools in Dubai during the academic year
2015-2017 was 9.05%, the study showed 0.9% reduction of obesity comparing academic year 2014-2015 to academic year 2015-
2016, the study reflected that prevalence of obesity among student population at private schools in Dubai during the academic
year 2016-2017 was 8.2% which was about 1.3% less comparing to the prevalence of obesity during academic year 2015-2016.
The study revealed that the trend of obesity prevalence among student population at private schools in Dubai is declining over
that last three academic years (2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017) showing that about 2.2% total reduction in the three years
period of applying effective intervention program.
Conclusion:
Multidisciplinary public health intervention for childhood obesity is successful in producing weight loss in the
short and long term when stakeholders brought on board effective means.
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