Overweight and obesity in youth has increased dramatically. Therefore, overweight prevention initiatives should start early in life. This study was conducted to determine the thoughts and feelings about obesity of overweight children at a primary school in Turkey. This qualitative study was conducted with 40 overweight children attending public elementary school. The children were asked to write an essay about their thoughts and feelings related to obesity. The data was obtained from these essays. To this end, each researcher read the essays and took notes of statements regarding the outstanding issues; meaningful expressions in the same category conforming to the original texts were grouped together. Themes were defined comprehensively. The results of this study may be considered as evidence of the thoughts and feelings of overweight children with regard to obesity. Most overweight children are labeled by society. Research results suggested seven themes. Seventy percent of the students expressed the thought that society labels them and 68% stated that they do not like themselves due to being overweight. The results of the study constitute evidence in the context of the thoughts and feelings of overweight children regarding obesity. Overweight children largely exhibit a negative psychosocial bias regarding obesity.

The health and safety of every employee in an organization is important if the organization is to continuously operate to meet its stated goals and objectives. In Nigeria, industrialization and mechanization are increasing while occupational health problems are becoming prominent. These health problems are caused by exposure to harmful chemicals, biological agents, physical, mechanical and ergonomic hazards. Health problems resulting from such hazards may appear to occur less frequently than other major disabling diseases, due to lack of knowledge and pattern of illness of such hazardous diseases. This paper provided evidence through the content analysis of literature reviewed that, the illness from such hazards affect a considerable number of workers in Nigeria. It also examined the nature of compensation given to injured, sick or diseased workers in the cause of performing their duties in Nigeria. The paper concluded that, a healthy worker is a productive worker. It recommended that health educational programmes should be carried out in various industries to create awareness about peculiar hazard. In such industries, safety measures should be provided for workers against health hazard, while injured, sick or diseased workers due to occupational hazards should be duly compensated.