RESEARCH PROPOSAL CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND DIABETES

Research proposal Childhood obesity and Diabetes



Research proposal Childhood Obesity and Diabetes

Introduction

Obesity in Australia has been described as an "epidemic" with "more often." The Medical Journal of Australia found that obesity in Australia more than doubled in the two decades prior to 2003 and the unprecedented rise in obesity has been compared with the health crisis in America. In May 2008, Diabetes Australia, the national diabetes awareness and prevention, told the House of Representatives that the cost of obesity in the country's health system in 2005 was estimated at AUD $ 25,000,000,000 ( $ 20 billion dollars), and that the figure was only expected to increase. (Australian Bureau of Statistics 2008) In August 2008, the estimate of Diabetes in Australia more than doubled to 58 billion U.S. dollars ($ 46 billion dollars), this time taking into account not only health care, but labor productivity and quality of other living costs. (Britt et al. 2008) In 2003, the number of Australians with type 2 diabetes rose to nearly one million for the first time. (James 2004)Moreover, the number of patients with type 2 diabetes is diagnosed based solely on their weight was estimated at 242,000 in 2007, an increase of 137% in cases over the past three years. (Stewart 2008)

Objectives

This research will aim to identify the correlation between childhood obesity and diabetes prevalence in these children future. Then, a community nutrition program will be initiated to tackle this issue in the primary care setting. Obesity in children will be fought through building strategies in to run a pilot program in Sydney primary care centre.

Synopsis

This project aims to identify the correlation between diabetes and obesity in childhood. This will come through identifying adolescent diabetic with type II and their weight status in their childhood. Then a community nutrition program will be design to tackle this issue.

Background

Childhood obesity could be defined as excess body fatness (Dehghan, Akhtar-Danesh and Merchant 2005) or can be defined as simple as inequity between energy intake and expenditure (Al-Hazza & Al-Rasheedi 2006). This excess could identify as 25-30% of body weight (Dehghan, Akhtar-Danesh and Merchant 2005). The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention defined obesity as at or above 95th percentile of BMI for age and overweight as between 85th to 95th percentile of BMI for age (Ogden 2007).

Purpose of the Research

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