Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia.
Faculty of Movement, Sports and Health Sciences, Vasile Alecsandri University of Bacau, Bacau, Romania.
Cent Eur J Public Health. 2024 Jun;32(2):71-76. doi: 10.21101/cejph.a8219.
Childhood obesity has become a worldwide public health concern over the past decade, counting Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the lack of standardized surveillance data on childhood obesity. However, BiH and its entity, Republic of Srpska (RS), are failing inclusion in such initiative, which hinders efforts to monitor and address the issue. Henceforth, the objective of this nationally funded study was to gather and analyse data on the prevalence of overweight and obesity among primary-school children in RS by implementing the COSI methodology.
Weight, height, and BMI of first, second, and third grade children (aged 6-8), from 11 schools (N = 2,030) in the RS region was analysed according to the standardized COSI protocol.
The prevalence rates of overall overweight (OW) and obesity (OB) observed were 14.37% (OW 9.09%, OB 5.21%). No gender-related differences were noted (boys 14.36%, girls 14.88%).
These findings highlight a concerning trend of increasing overweight and obesity prevalence with age among primary-school children in the RS.
在过去十年中，儿童肥胖已成为全球公共卫生关注的问题，波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那（波黑）也不例外。世界卫生组织（世卫组织）设立了儿童肥胖监测倡议（COSI），以解决儿童肥胖症缺乏标准化监测数据的问题。然而，波黑及其实体，塞尔维亚共和国（塞族共和国），未能纳入该倡议，这阻碍了监测和解决这一问题的努力。因此，这项由国家资助的研究旨在通过实施 COSI 方法，收集和分析塞族共和国小学一、二、三年级儿童（6-8 岁）超重和肥胖患病率的数据。
根据标准化的 COSI 方案，对来自塞族共和国地区 11 所学校（N=2030）的一、二、三年级儿童（1437 名）的体重、身高和 BMI 进行了分析。
总体超重（OW）和肥胖（OB）的患病率分别为 14.37%（OW 为 9.09%，OB 为 5.21%）。未观察到性别差异（男孩为 14.36%，女孩为 14.88%）。
这些发现强调了塞族共和国小学生超重和肥胖患病率随年龄增长而增加的令人担忧的趋势。
