Vnitr Lek 2010, 56(10):1098-1102

Obesity prevention

D. Müllerová

Ústav hygieny Lékařské fakulty UK Plzeň, přednostka doc. MUDr. Dana Müllerová, Ph.D.

Obesity is chronic disease, with increased prevalence since sixties of last century, now widespread as well in developing countries, not only in developed countries, like on the beginning. Obesity with its co-morbidities reduces longitude and quality of life. Treatment and indirect costs of obesity are rising and economically demanding. At present time there are not sufficient data supporting effectiveness of specific community preventive intervention. Interventional activity being in progress are based on active mobilization of citizens to active life style, with healthy diet and increased physical activity, with effort to build up anti-obese physical environment, helpful to making healthy choice much easier. Results of so far conducted preventive interventions are biased by the fact, that implemented strategies are limited not only to target population, but as well widespread to control population. Their effects could be probably expected in future, like it happened in the most successful the North Karelia project preventing cardiovascular mortality. There is given description of possible preventive strategies fighting obesity in the Czech Republic as well.

Keywords: obesity; primary, secondary, tertiary prevention; community programmes

Received: July 9, 2010; Published: October 1, 2010  Show citation