Marja Koski
Child Psychiatry,University of Helsinki, Finland
Title: The current psychiatric state of Obesity solution
Biography
Biography: Marja Koski
Abstract
The World Health Organization (WHO) projected that by 2015, approximately 2.3 billion adults will be overweight, and more than 700 million adults will be obese. Globally, nearly 43 million children under the age of 5 years were overweight in 2010. According to Fin Riski 2012 health survey of working-age men BMI average was 27.1 kg/m2 and 26.0 kg/m2 for women. One in five Finnish was fat. Finnish men, body mass index has risen since the 1970s, and women since the 1980s. However, progress has slowed and even stabilized in the past decade.
We must find new method to prevent development of obesity in the future. The psychiatric and psychological methods should be to pay attention to the background in obesity. Individuals use solutions that they have learned in the childhood to defuse anxiety and different emotions. The researchers have found the relationship between stress and severe obesity. Recently we found connection between depression and obesity. In research, they have found connection between some personality disorders and obesity.
Doctors in the primary care should pay more attention to many chronical disorders that are connected to obesity. They should use team which consist of dietician, psychologist and psychiatrist.