Identifying And Finding Better Way Of Solving Health Issues

For years, Americans have been told that exercising and staying active is imperative to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In general, this fact holds true for all generations and age groups, including the youth of today. Children simply need to exercise and participate in more physical activities in order to maintain a high level of health. The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools suggests that, “one of the leading causes of this epidemic (childhood obesity) is a marked decline in physical activity and athletic participation” (“Athletics in Schools”). Childhood fascinations with watching television, playing video games, and browsing the internet are just a few of the sedentary hobbies taking over children’s free time to be active. Therefore, mandating physical activities in schools across the country will effectively reduce the frequency of this major, obesity health crisis in young students. Understandably, a plethora of factors cause and influence children to become overweight and obese, but working to fix each evident problem will, in the end, contribute to finally ending the developing childhood health crisis.

In the problem analysis phase of effective decision making, group members should recognize any obstacle that may arise that needs to be improved or changed and determine the characteristics, magnitude, and possible cause(s) of that obstacle confronting them. This phase lays the groundwork for what the group should be prepared for as they work together (Hirokawa & Salazar, 1999 p. 170).After analyzing the problem, the group should then discuss and establish goals and objectives in order to generate proposed solutions of

There have been studies conducted to find out what has caused or what the leading factors to obesity are. Researchers are currently still doing research to find out what causes or what may be the lead to obesity. Childhood obesity is a serious medical condition which considers a child to be obese if their Body Mass Index (BMI) is at or above the 95th percentile for children and teens of the same age and sex. (Rendall., Weden, Lau, Brownell, Nazarov & Fernandes, 2014). Obesity is on a rise in the Unites States and all over the world and can lead or result to other health complications later in life. The crucial breakdown serves as an implication of outlining childhood obesity, collaborating problems of the disease and resolutions, as well as applying critical thinking to give a complete approach to deliver information on childhood obesity. This will be done through citation of scholarly articles, samples and other modes of supporting details.

Public policies that focus on lifestyle determinants promote better health outcomes for an entire population by means of education, implementing wide spread policies, and initiatives for at risk areas of the population. Socializing and empowering determinants help connect and form a relationship between structural determinants and lifestyle determinants. This section of our health policy really helps tie in a key component that gives our national health policy a higher chance of success as a whole, it is more or less the bridge that binds the other parts. Doing this ties the individual and collective responsibilities for better health and allows a higher chance of success on both the individual and societal levels (Estes et. al., 2013).

America's children are not getting enough exercise, and the health risks due to obesity are becoming epidemic in nature. Even First Lady Michelle Obama is supporting an initiative to help children become more active and to provide for exercise (at least 30-60 minutes per day) in all schools. Even limited amounts of exercise can have great health benefits. When humans exercise, the brain produces chemicals that help enhance mood, limit cravings for sugars, and contribute to healthier joints, muscles, the heart, and kidneys. In turn, this translates into more productive work time, the ability to sleep better, increase memory, and reduce dependence on medications. Children are so vulnerable to this health risk that if it continues, over 60% of graduating seniors will be clinically obese. Written by a medical journalist, the book is designed for the lay reader but has a number of documented scholarly sources.

Indicated in Figure one is a model for solving problems or issues. This model contains six repeatable steps including 1) define the problem, 2) determine the issues root-cause, 3) develop alternative solutions, 4) select a solution, 5) implement the solution, and 6) evaluate the outcome.

I hypothesize that the causes of death in the last century have changed primarily because of the new additives being introduced in food today. About 100 years ago, World War I started. When it did, there was a need for more food. The hormones, pesticides, and other additives in the foods today are the descendants of those WWI chemicals. There are many ways these chemicals have affected the causes of death in the last century. One great example is the correlation between heart disease and hormones. The job of hormones in meat is to make the animal have more fat. This fat transfers to the heart and by time, people develop a coating of fat around their heart, which could lead to heart disease. Obviously, the correlation between the changing diet

First step of the research process. Researchers identify a research problem, which is found in the Introduction sections of both Tucker et al. (2011) and Xu et al. (2010) reports (Clark & Creswell, 2015). Specifically, the quantitative physical-activity-in middle-schools study of Xu et al. (2010) is concerned with the problem of low levels of physical activity contributing to the obesity in children and adolescents. The research problem in this study calls for “measuring trends, explaining relationships among variables (i.e. policies, facilities, family support,) and identifying other factors that may influence physical activity opportunities (Clark & Creswell, 2015, pp.36, 59). Whereas, the Tucker et al. (2011) qualitative physical-activity-at-daycare

A growing number of children are demonstrating unhealthy eating habits and as a result are becoming obese due to lack of physical activity, nutrition and genetics. Children in today’s society are not motivated to exercise and participate in after school activities. If we were to go back in time 15 to 20 years ago, children were encouraged to explore the outdoors by engaging in activities such as camping, bicycling, walking, running and playing sports. Now, living in the 21st century, technology has taken a major toll on our children health; they are spending more time indoors watching television, playing video, games, surfing the internet and texting on their mobile phones.

Also, according to the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (2015), health risk behaviors have been identified to cause much of the illness, suffering, and early death related to chronic diseases.

threats are now posed by diseases in which lifestyle play a role in the causation and or

Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century. The problem is global and is steadily affecting many low- and middle-income countries, particularly in urban settings. The prevalence has increased at an alarming

Many methodologies and models that have been created help us decide how to solve problems, but depending on the situation they can differ due to the size, how long it would take and which approach is taken for it to be solved.

In today’s society children are increasingly becoming less active. Lack of physical activity in childhood leads to obesity, can increase one’s risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, arthritis, and poor health status. Physical inactivity also increases one’s risk for dying prematurely, dying of heart disease, and colon cancer. Technology and video games have become a major factor in this and have seemed to take over and control lives of many children. Less children are involved with sports and few play outside. The lack of physical activity as a child, can pay huge dividends in the child’s health, into his/her adulthood.

(C3) Increasing health care cost by the government/society. Due to unhealthy lifestyle, cause severe diseases.