Collaborative Efforts of Families, Schools, Health Care Providers, and the Government to Control Childhood Obesity in China

• 作者: YANG Zhen Yu ZHANG Qian FANG Hong Yun DING Xin Yue ZHAO Wen Hua
• 来源期刊: 生物医学与环境科学（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（6）
• 所属期刊栏目: Policy Forum
• 页码范围: 439-442
• 页数: 4页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.3967/bes2021.060

摘要

INTRODUCTION Globally,?childhood?obesity?has?gradually?become prevalent in recent decades. According to estimations by United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the World Health?Organization?(WHO),?and?the?World?Bank,?the global prevalence of being overweight for children under 5 years rose from 4.9％? in 2000 to 5.6％? in 2019[1]. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation?(IHME)?estimated?that,?between?1980?and 2015,?the?worldwide?proportion?of?obesity?increased from?3.9％?to?7.2％?and?3.7％?to?6.4％?in?boys?and?girls aged 2–4 years, respectively[2]. Meanwhile, the Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration reported that the global prevalence of obesity rose from?0.9％?to?7.8％?and?0.7％?to?5.6％?in?boys?and?girls aged 5–19 years, respectively, between 1975 and 2016[3].?Globally,?the?total?number?of?overweight?and obese individuals reached 40 and 340 million in children under 5 years and aged 5–19 years, respectively,?in?2016[4].