Pak Leng Cheong, Mei Ieng Lam, Hui Wang, Wan Cheong, Louisa Sok Man Lei
The Effect of an Online Health Literacy Promotion Program for Filipino Domestic Workers: A Mixed Method Study
SAGE open nursing
childhood obesity major global issue causes variety health problems high social costs many previous studies investigated childhood obesity using crosssectional data longitudinal cohort studies performed especially korean population analyzed incidence prevalence obesity overweight korean prospective cohort study children followedup age 7 age 36 study eventually recruited total 1216 participants 16 followup surveys 30 years 19862017 annual incidence obesity showed small peak 21 age 13 cohort entered middle school rapid increase 64 participants reached age 20 prevalence obesity overweight age 8 08 09 respectively increased rapidly age 12 obesity 22 overweight 46 reaching 95 159 respectively age 20 prevalence obesity overweight consistently higher girls boys childhood period trend reversed adulthood incidence prevalence obesity overweight increased markedly final grades elementary school females adolescence males