Healthcare Promotional Program On Childhood Overweight And Obesity (Coursework Sample)

Health Promotion Program
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Introduction
Obesity refers to a multi-factorial and chronic disease which is one of the most imperative causes of premature and morbidity-mortality globally ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"BiAbTRm5","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Healey, 2014)","plainCitation":"(Healey, 2014)"},"citationItems":[{"id":714,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/SG6N8P8N"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/SG6N8P8N"],"itemData":{"id":714,"type":"book","title":"The obesity epidemic","publisher":"Spinney Press","publisher-place":"Thirroul, N.S.W.","source":"Open WorldCat","event-place":"Thirroul, N.S.W.","abstract":"This book presents a detailed study of obesity in Australia and includes: the latest overweight and obesity statistics; the Body Mass Index (BMI) and measuring weight; the health risks of obesity; tackling overweight/obesity among children.","ISBN":"978-1-921507-03-8","note":"OCLC: 313986003","language":"English","author":[{"family":"Healey","given":"Justin"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2014"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Healey, 2014). According to ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"H4dlXVSb","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)","plainCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)"},"citationItems":[{"id":715,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"itemData":{"id":715,"type":"book","title":"childhood overweight and obesity","publisher":"U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics","publisher-place":"Hyattsville, MD","source":"Open WorldCat","event-place":"Hyattsville, MD","URL":"http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo27244","note":"OCLC: 807800165","language":"English","author":[{"literal":"National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2016",6,30]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} National Center for Health Statistics (2015), obesity is the most prevalent health issue in the present day. The disease is brought about by an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation that impairs the health of a person. The issue is a prime risk factor for patients suffering from musculoskeletal conditions, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"Cy8W1bGS","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Healey, 2014)","plainCitation":"(Healey, 2014)"},"citationItems":[{"id":714,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/SG6N8P8N"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/SG6N8P8N"],"itemData":{"id":714,"type":"book","title":"The obesity epidemic","publisher":"Spinney Press","publisher-place":"Thirroul, N.S.W.","source":"Open WorldCat","event-place":"Thirroul, N.S.W.","abstract":"This book presents a detailed study of obesity in Australia and includes: the latest overweight and obesity statistics; the Body Mass Index (BMI) and measuring weight; the health risks of obesity; tackling overweight/obesity among children.","ISBN":"978-1-921507-03-8","note":"OCLC: 313986003","language":"English","author":[{"family":"Healey","given":"Justin"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2014"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Healey, 2014). The most probable danger of developing the diseases is when the level of weight increases abnormally in human beings. Currently, a majority of the children are obese with thirty percent being between the age of six and nineteen ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"6jvTrwpo","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)","plainCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)"},"citationItems":[{"id":715,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"itemData":{"id":715,"type":"book","title":"childhood overweight and obesity","publisher":"U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics","publisher-place":"Hyattsville, MD","source":"Open WorldCat","event-place":"Hyattsville, MD","URL":"http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo27244","note":"OCLC: 807800165","language":"English","author":[{"literal":"National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2016",6,30]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (National Center for Health Statistics, 2015). There was a drastic increment in the prevalence of obesity amongst the adolescents and children in the year 1999 to 2015 ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"XajtvQDR","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)","plainCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)"},"citationItems":[{"id":715,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"itemData":{"id":715,"type":"book","title":"childhood overweight and obesity","publisher":"U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics","publisher-place":"Hyattsville, MD","source":"Open WorldCat","event-place":"Hyattsville, MD","URL":"http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo27244","note":"OCLC: 807800165","language":"English","author":[{"literal":"National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2016",6,30]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} ( National Center for Health Statistics, 2015). The reason behind this is the consumption of more calories among the children compared to the rate at which they burn them. The paper is an evaluation of a health promotional program that targets childhood obesity.
Background Information
Causes of Obesity
The most fundamental causes of obesity are the energy imbalance between calories consumed and those expended. The imbalance is brought about by the intake of food with high fats whereby the extra fats accumulate within the human body leading to the development of obesity in a given period ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"xUh68T7V","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(Healey, 2014)","plainCitation":"(Healey, 2014)"},"citationItems":[{"id":714,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/SG6N8P8N"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/SG6N8P8N"],"itemData":{"id":714,"type":"book","title":"The obesity epidemic","publisher":"Spinney Press","publisher-place":"Thirroul, N.S.W.","source":"Open WorldCat","event-place":"Thirroul, N.S.W.","abstract":"This book presents a detailed study of obesity in Australia and includes: the latest overweight and obesity statistics; the Body Mass Index (BMI) and measuring weight; the health risks of obesity; tackling overweight/obesity among children.","ISBN":"978-1-921507-03-8","note":"OCLC: 313986003","language":"English","author":[{"family":"Healey","given":"Justin"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2014"]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Healey, 2014). Lack of body exercise aimed at burning calories is also one of the leading causes of obesity amongst the human beings. For instance, people who spend a majority of their time seated, watching television, or doing nothing to burn the extra calories in the body has resulted in obesity. Overweight and obesity can also be brought about by depression, anxiousness, hopelessness, anger and boredom.
History of Obesity
In the year 1980, only one amid ten persons were identified as obese ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"dPv61QNG","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)","plainCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)"},"citationItems":[{"id":715,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"itemData":{"id":715,"type":"book","title":"childhood overweight and obesity","publisher":"U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics","publisher-place":"Hyattsville, MD","source":"Open WorldCat","event-place":"Hyattsville, MD","URL":"http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo27244","note":"OCLC: 807800165","language":"English","author":[{"literal":"National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)"}],"issued":{"date-parts":[["2015"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2016",6,30]]}}}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (National Center for Health Statistics, 2015). From that time, the global figure on obesity has doubled while it has tripled in some of the counties. In the year 2008, more than half a billion of the people globally were declared obese ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"zEHiiSN8","properties":{"formattedCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)","plainCitation":"(National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), 2015)"},"citationItems":[{"id":715,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/G2o40Z2L/items/AKA9ZNDZ"],"itemData":{"id":715,"type":"book","title":"childhood overweight and obesity","publisher":"U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics","p...