Obesity in Australia

Huse, Oliver; Hettiarachchi, Janitha; Gearon, Emma; Nichols, Melanie; Allender, Steven; Peeters, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.orcp.2017.10.002

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“…While a number of formulae have been proposed, the Best Guess method has shown to be among the most accurate in Australian childen . Performance within other populations has been variable . The method was developed in the 2000s and last validated in 2010.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is evidence that the proportion of children who are overweight or obese is increasing. Australian data suggests that the proportion of children overweight or obese had increased from 24.7% to 27.6% between 1995 and 2014/2015 . Globally, in developing countries, the prevalence of overweight or obesity in children has increased from 16.9% to 23.8% for boys and 16.2% to 22.6% for girls between 1980 and 2013 .…”

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“…There is evidence that children's weight and the prevalence of obesity in children is increasing . This could challenge the predictive accuracy of age‐based formulae, including the Best Guess formulae.…”

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“…Janitha Hettiarachchi et al, (2018) in their study concluded that the prevalence of overweight and obesity among 14 to 15-year-old adolescent school children in Colombo education zone was 10.8% with no gender difference. Thus, overweight and obesity among adolescents in the Colombo education zone is a significant public health problem.…”

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Media Socialization of Children on Eating Habits: A Study of How Television Content Nourish Their Lives

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Sri Lankan mass media from time to time have published reports that many school children in cities are overweight or obese. How serious is the problem? Is Television viewing the most probable cause for health problems connected with children? The aim of this research was to investigate the association between assumed risk factors and Body Mass Index (BMI) in children in urban schools in Sri Lanka. Specifically, the study attempts to identify the relationship between television viewing, fast foods, physical activity, and vegetable consumption in relation to BMI. Using a multiple cluster sample, out of nine provinces of Sri Lanka six provinces were purposely chosen for this study representing urban and semi-urban districts. This study was conducted through a mix approach including all ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. Our findings indicate that in both groups (male and female) there was a positive association between television viewing and BMI and there was evidence that the more television was watched the higher the BMI. We found that physical activity in both groups was negatively associated with BMI, although the effect size was small. In both groups eating vegetables (+nuts) were associated with a lower BMI, and there was a dose-effect. In girls eating fast food was positively associated with BMI, but in boys was negatively associated with BMI.

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“…The current rates of obesity have been described as epidemic, and severe obesity is increasing more rapidly than obesity (Bray, Kim, & Wilding, ; Cawley, ; WHO, ). Nearly two thirds (63.4%) of Australian adults are overweight or obese, with Tasmania recording the highest prevalence of the Australian states and territories (67.5%), and these prevalence trends are increased in areas of socio‐economic disadvantage (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW], ; Huse et al, ; Keating et al, ).…”

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A qualitative investigation of the health economic impacts of bariatric surgery for obesity and implications for improved practice in health economics

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Obesity is an economic problem. Bariatric surgery is cost-effective for severe and resistant obesity. Most economic evaluations of bariatric surgery use administrative data and narrowly defined direct medical costs in their quantitative analyses. Demand far outstrips supply for bariatric surgery. Further allocation of health care resources to bariatric surgery (particularly public) could be stimulated by new health economic evidence that supports the provision of bariatric surgery. We postulated that qualitative research methods would elicit important health economic dimensions of bariatric surgery that would typically be omitted from the current economic evaluation framework, nor be reported and therefore not considered by policymakers with sufficient priority. We listened to patients: Focus group data were analysed thematically with software assistance. Key themes were identified inductively through a dialogue between the qualitative data and pre-existing economic theory (perspective, externalities, and emotional capital). We identified the concept of emotional capital where participants described life-changing desires to be productive and participate in their communities postoperatively. After self-funding bariatric surgery, some participants experienced financial distress. We recommend a mixed-methods approach to the economic evaluation of bariatric surgery. This could be operationalised in health economic model conceptualisation and construction, through to the separate reporting of qualitative results to supplement quantitative results.

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Obesity in Australia

Cited by 50 publications

References 13 publications

How well does the Best Guess method predict children's weight in an emergency department in 2018–2019?

How well does the Best Guess method predict children's weight in an emergency department in 2018–2019?

Media Socialization of Children on Eating Habits: A Study of How Television Content Nourish Their Lives

A qualitative investigation of the health economic impacts of bariatric surgery for obesity and implications for improved practice in health economics

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