Obesity Is A Public Health Issue Analysis

Define public health and provide a brief description of the evolution of public health. Public health is the combine organised efforts from different sectors (public or private) within the society that help people to become healthier or less sick, promote health, prevent illness and prolong life. Its focus to promote good health practices on the population; therefore their involvement is more on populations wellbeing physical and mental health than individuals cases. Public health has been through

The significant purpose of this analysis is to analyze the rhetorical appeals featured by two informative authors, who have written about their viewpoints on the topic of childhood obesity. In the article, “Childhood Obesity Is an urgent Public Health Problem” edited by Tamara Thompson, she demonstrates that the obesity epidemic is a national health concern targeting young children and adolescents within America’s boundaries, and discusses the contributing factors and consequences as well as promotes

Health Problems Related to Obesity in the United States An Annotated Bibliography Yeney Figueredo Keiser University Health Problems Related to Obesity in the United States An Annotated Bibliography Source I: The Obesity Epidemic in the United States: Gender, Age, Socioeconomic, Racial/ethnic, and Geographic Characteristics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Regression Analysis. Summary. This article by Wang and Beydoun (2007) reflects how the obesity in the United Stated has become a public

Childhood obesity has become a serious concern. Due to this reason much research has been done to try to determine the initial reason for this problem. An article from BMC Public Health conducted research to view if there is an association between breastfeeding and childhood obesity. The name of the article is, The Association between Breastfeeding and Childhood Obesity: a Meta-Analysis, and consists of several authors, Jing Yan, Lin Liu, Yun Zhu, Guowei Huang, and Peizhong Peter Wang. Department

Introduction The rate of childhood obesity is on the rise. The negative effect of obesity on a child has been documented by health care agencies repeatedly. And yet, effective treatment plan to control the increase in obesity has yet to be discovered. Research examining the causes and intervention of childhood obesity has circled around understanding the reason behind a child’s weight gain as well as the key shareholders that have influence. The key shareholders such as the child, the family, and

For community and public health nurses alike, the battle against obesity is a health issue of great importance. Obesity is shown to be directly responsible for many of the negative health issues we see today. It contributes to higher risk of having chronic disease and poor health (which will be explained). Obesity is a nationwide epidemic stretching across the whole human development spectrum: from childhood obesity, adolescent obesity and adult obesity. The prevalence of children being overweight

Research Process Rebecca Persinger HCS/465 April 9, 2012 Donald J. Steacy Childhood Obesity The author of this article talks about the increasing number of obese children in America and what it will take to have healthy and nutritious school lunch programs provided to school children. During a survey performed by the author on many children who are suffering from obesity in America and the health problems these unhealthy school lunches are creating, the lunches were analyzed based on content

Obesity has been a major health issue in the community for the past three decades, and has recently become a spreading concern for children (Black & Hager, 2013). Childhood obesity leads to many health and financial burdens in the future, and has become a public health priority. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2016), childhood obesity has doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents in the past 30 years. Black and Hager (2013) state that pediatric obesity is

and Analysis of the Results of the 4 MAPP Assessments Pierce County has performed 4 MAPP assessments to determine how residents can achieve optimal health. Together, the 4 MAPP assessments will help the Pierce County health system devise a plan where residents can safely play, work and live together. Pierce County’s multitude of parks and recreation, and built environment is a noted asset in the CHSA and CTSA that are unfortunately underutilized by community residents. The Community Health Status

Research Process to Problems in Health Care Childhood Obesity HCS/465 August 2, 2012 Donald Steacy Introduction The purpose of the paper is to show how to develop and understand methodology of the research process when pertaining to health care. The process consists of retrieving a peer-reviewed article and applying the research methodology to the article selected. The article selected for the research methodology was Childhood Obesity: A Global Public Health Crisis written by Sameera Karnik