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Published on: February 2, 2017
[Control effect of health education on body mass index of community population]
Bin Jiang1, Wenzhi Wang, Shengping Wu
1Beijing Neurosurgical Institute, Beijing 100050, China.
Objective:
To examine the effect of community-based health education and health promotion on body mass index (BMI), overweight and obesity.
Methods:
We separately selected 100,000 population in Beijing, Shanghai and Changsha Cities during 1991-2000. Each of the cities was then randomly separated intervention and control community of 500,000 population. In the intervention community various kinds of health education and health promotion had been carried out. The level of knowledge, attitude and behavior (KAB) and body mass index (BMI) were evaluated.
Results:
The net increases of KAB level and regularly exercising rate in three city and different target population were statistically differences in comparison with baseline survey of 1992, and the net decreases of the BMI, overweight rate and obesity rate of the whole population were statistically differences.
Conclusion:
Health education and health promotion can effectively control the rising of population BMI, and have great meaningful for population preventing from cardio-cerebro-vascular diseases.
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