Strategic Leadership in Practice: A Literature Review on Advocating Children Obesity Prevention in Cameroonian Context.

Children obesity became an endemic issue around the worldwide in general and in Cameroon in particular way. Existing literature demonstrated that childhood obesity is increasingly affecting children in Cameroon. This paper aimed to find out through literature review strategy of advocating children’s obesity prevention in Cameroonian context. This work emphasized on the role of the parents and the society to prevent the childhood obesity that has been growing during these last decades. This paper made some important recommendations that could help parents and other practitioners to face these global challenges. Recommendations are: 1) Assessing children for obesity risk to improve early identification of elevated BMI, medical risks, and unhealthy eating and physical activity habits. 2) Calculating the Body Mass Indices (BMI) at least annually and put together with familial obesity information, and medical risks to assess the child's obesity risk. 3) Preventing both specific eating and physical activity behaviors, which are likely to promote maintenance of healthy weight. In addition 4) Providing counseling techniques such as motivational interviewing, which helps families identify their own motivation for making change. The results of this world could useful for parents, schools leaders, health leaders, etc. in handling childhood obesity in Cameroon and abroad.

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