The primmary theme of this diploma thesis is to analyse the prevalence of overweight and obesity of children studying at second grade of elementary school in the district of České Budějovice. The theoretical part of the thesis was focused on the characteristics of the overweight and obesity and its influence on human?s health with the aim on children?s population. Furthermore, the thesis contains the main factors affecting occurence of overweight and obesity. Prevention and treatment of obesity has been presented as well. The crucial part of the thesis was the research itself. The research consisted of evaluation of results of antropometric measurement of the sample of probands studying at second grade of elementary school in the district of České Budějovice. Based on the measurement the height, weight, waist and hips circumference was found out. Furthermore, the birth weight and height was examined too. Based on the measurement the Body mass index was calculated and the predetermined research questions were answered. 243 probands from 9 elementary schools took part at the research. 11 girls were overweight (8,9% from the sample) and 17 boys (14,16%) were overweight. The prevalence of obesity was at 0,81% rate concerning girls and 10,83% rate concerning boys.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:375917 |
Date | January 2018 |
Creators | KUBOUŠEK, Ladislav |
Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
Language | Czech |
Detected Language | English |
Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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