Abstract
The aim: To substantiate conceptual directions and organizational technology of medico-social monitoring of obesity and risk factors of its development in schoolchildren at the level of health care institution. Materials and methods: Modern strategies and recommendations for the prevention of obesity in children, local normative documents for the organization of preventive medical examinations of children where analyzed. The basis for developing a functional-structural model of medical and social monitoring of obesity in children based on the results of own research, its concept and organizational technology are developed on the basis of methodology of systematic approach and systematic analysis using informationanalytical method. Results: In the procecc of monitoring we saw the health of children and the harmony of their physical development, nutrition and lifestyle, hereditary risk factors for overweight, and the dynamics of the child's physical development. The program of medical and social monitoring of obesity in schoolchildren allows to check among the attached for medical care children the risk factors for the development of overweight, predict health disorders that are associated with it, plan preventive programs. Conclusions: The model of organization of medico-social monitoring of obesity in children is developed for the health care institution, the peculiarities of which are: - enhancing the role of primary care physicians in the provision of medical assistance to the pediatric population in monitoring the health of children and implementing of preventive measures; - involveming parents in monitoring of the risk factors for overweight and preventing obesity at the individual level.
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