Abstract:
In today's world, non-infectious epidemics lead to death and most of women face
lots of struggles due to obesity. Therefore, BMI (Body Mass Index) plays an
important role in humans' health which is a noticeable thing that women face a
lot of challenges in case of obesity. This has been caused severe effects in
compensating more people. Lack of awareness among people leads to this
situation. Thus, the risk assessment is investigated based on the particular concept
in the mathugama Divisional secretariat. The main aim of this study is to assess
the challenges of the epidemic of obesity among women. The primary and
secondary data were used in this study, accordingly, the women above the age of
18 who has the highest amount of BMI were selected and data were collected
from them through the BMI analysis report, observation, questionnaire and
interview which were analysed in the descriptive method through the purposive
sampling technique. Based on these study find out the current situation and
challenges of obesity faced by women in this particular study area. Therefore, the
study has been finalized that the women in Mathugama divisional Secretariat
have been facing many challenges by this obesity due to a lack of awareness (96%
perception).
