childhood obesity and its correlation to social-economic background. The researchers argued that attention to childhood obesity focuses on genetic and environmental factors, and there is the increasingly prevalent belief that pediatric obesity may b Continue Reading...
Gender Inequity in Sports Has Led to Obesity Among Adolescent Girls in Saudi Arabia Gender Inequality in sports has led to Obesity among Adolescent Girls in Saudi Arabia Obesity is one of the most rapidly escalating phenomena in the entire world. I Continue Reading...
Doctors of nursing practice have an ethical and professional obligation to disseminate findings that emerge from relevant and timely research. One area of ongoing concern is the near-epidemic levels of childhood obesity that have emerged in recent ye Continue Reading...
As the Latino community is very family oriented there may be a need to focus the program on mother and daughter events and the like to help these young women transition into a more active lifestyle within the safety of family. There should also be a Continue Reading...
Risk Factors for Obesity: A Critique Non-Infectious Disease Major Risk Factors for Obesity: A Critique of the Research Literature Major Risk Factors for Obesity: A Critique of the Research Literature The World Health Organization (WHO, 2013) est Continue Reading...
The hypothesis to be tested is to what extent children and their families are influenced by the marketing techniques of food companies. This hypothesis will be tested through qualitative methods including primarily ethnographic observation and open Continue Reading...
More specifically, when certain species (including homo Sapiens) consume more calories than necessary for immediate energy requirements, their digestive systems efficiently converts those excess calories into storable forms of reserve energy that ar Continue Reading...
Nanney et al. (2007) state that policies aimed at promoting nutritional awareness in schools and about local healthy food choices would influence the food choices that people make within their own homes, possibly leading to better health outcomes. Continue Reading...
Population Health: Childhood Obesity Of all of the current factors impacting population health, childhood obesity may be have the greatest threat for long-term damage, as well as being the one most highly linked to culture, socioeconomic status, an Continue Reading...
Few other public health issues have drawn as much attention, and garnered as much support for policy and programming as obesity. Obesity programs have been initiated and implemented at the federal and state levels, and all fifty states currently have Continue Reading...
EBP Population Health - Childhood Obesity among the Hispanic population living in FloridaAbstractThere is higher childhood obesity across the age ranges among Latino children compared to their white and Asian counterparts. Available data shows that L Continue Reading...
Reducing Childhood Obesity in the USAIntroductionObesity among teenagers and younger children has exacerbated epidemic proportions in America, adversely impacting millions of lives. In the last thirty years, childhood obesity rates have increased thr Continue Reading...
Nursing Obesity prevalence is alarmingly high in the United States, especially among young people. About 20% of American youth are obese (Ogden, Carroll, Kit, & Flegal, 2014). Being overweight or obese in childhood has been shown in empirical st Continue Reading...
Reduce the Proportion of Adults with ObesityI. IntroductionGlobally, obesity is rising to epidemic levels. If current trends persist, it has been estimated that the percentage of overweight or obese adults worldwide will rise from 33 percent in 2005 Continue Reading...
Preventing Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity is on the rise in America and across the world. Obesity presents physical, social, and emotional complications for all sufferers. However, childhood obesity is especially concerning because the chronic Continue Reading...
Child Overweight or Obese? A study performed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1977 reported that approximately seven percent of children in the United States were overweight. A similar study done in 2000 reports that twelve to fourteen Continue Reading...
Fast Food and Child Obesity Jonathan Kwan This study identifies the underlying correlation of fast food consumption and the increasing rate of child obesity. The system of fast food is prevalent in all countries, with each country having its own v Continue Reading...
Advocacy Through LegislationIdentify a problem or concern in your state, community, or organization that has the capacity to be advocated through legislation. Research the issue and complete the sections below. For each topic that requires the listin Continue Reading...
Obesity cause Diabetes Type 2? From the time people came into existence; they have witnessed changes in virtually every aspect of life including the global environment, food production, health concerns, demographic growth, and so forth. Nevertheles Continue Reading...
People can exercise their free choice at the grocery store by choosing organic foods, although because of generally higher costs of organic products, this will not be a solution for everyone. People in lower socioeconomic groups often get food at di Continue Reading...
HEALTH BELIEF MODEL APPLICATIONUsing Health Behavior Models to Address Obesity among School ChildrenIntroductionThe number of overweight school children has significantly increased over the last few decades. Data from the Centers for Disease Control Continue Reading...
Population Health Issues in New JerseyBesides heart disease and cancer, another severe population health issue that has been identified as a problem for residents of New Jersey is obesity. This public health issue was selected because obesity has ass Continue Reading...
I: Healthy People One of the Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicator topics is “Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity” (2020 LHI Topics, 2018). Nutrition, physical activity and obesity and intimately related to one another and to Continue Reading...
Obesity in the State of MississippiDisease Condition/BackgroundToday, obesity is a major public health to people of all ages in the State of Mississippi. For example, according to one authority, Obesity has become the most important threat to the hea Continue Reading...
Mex Am / Hispanic Am. Hlth Care Sub- cultural Scholarly Paper: Hispanic-American Health Due to the rising cost of health care and lack of communication and cultural attitudes towards health many Hispanics are faced with poor health, obesity, and i Continue Reading...
This means these children have a much higher chance of developing other diabetes related illnesses as they grow older, including serious damage to the eyes, nerves, heart, kidneys, and blood vessels (Bren, 2004). If they do not learn how to self-man Continue Reading...
detection and intervention in childhood mental health help prevent mental health problems in adult life? Disregarding the mental well-being requirements of children is an intolerable violation of our basic undertaking to protect their well-being. U Continue Reading...
Commensal Bacterial and Obesity Link Between Commensal Bacteria And Obesity Biological Paper Link between Commensal Bacteria and Obesity Link between Commensal Bacteria and Obesity A global obesity epidemic is having a major impact on the healt Continue Reading...
Knowing that students in minority and low socio-economic groups have in the past traditionally scored lower on state adopted achievement tests, most school districts allot extra time and resources to improve their test scores. Furthermore, variation Continue Reading...
School's Role In Fighting Obesity When parents send their children to school, they entrust the school with the care of their child. Thus, the school has a duty to look over the health and safety of the child just as though it were a parent. In today Continue Reading...
Management of Obesity in Primary Care Settings The prevalence of obesity has reached epidemic levels in the United States and the human and economic toll of this condition is staggering. Besides the adverse effects that obesity has on quality of lif Continue Reading...
ADDRESSING THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC IN PATERSON, NJ Addressing the Diabetes Epidemic in Paterson, NJ: A Comprehensive Case StudyA. IntroductionDiabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disorder characterized by elevated blood glucose levels resulting fro Continue Reading...
Childhood Obesity Epidemic Childhood obesity has become one of the most significant public health challenges of the 21st century. This epidemic is not confined to any single region or nation but is a crisis affecting children across the globe. The W Continue Reading...
CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE ON WOMEN INVOLVED IN PROSTITUTION Conceptual Paper Millions of children around the globe are sexually abused or exploited. This paper includes several descriptions of studies that relate sexual abuse during childhood to delinque Continue Reading...
Health Belief Model and Health Education Public/population health standards place the conventional medical individual care model within several determinants of health. Currently, various public health models exist and are available for a huge range o Continue Reading...
Childhood Obesity Epidemic Disease Prevention Tackling the Childhood Obesity Epidemic through School Reforms Tackling the Childhood Obesity Epidemic through School Reforms A current health crisis facing developed nations is the obesity epidemic. Continue Reading...
Obesity The significance of obesity in American society is hardly unforeseen; evidence of its ugly head is reared throughout all facets of America, including diverse geographic and demographic arenas. One American city lends credence to the glaring Continue Reading...
Obesity A website for Current Nursing touts a health promotion model as espoused by Nola J. Pender, a former professor of nursing at the University of Michigan. The model's focus is on three areas: 1) individual characteristics and experiences, 2) b Continue Reading...
Policy Brief: Parental Influences on Child Obesity and Dental Caries POLICY BRIEF Parental Influences on Child Obesity and Dental Caries Obesity represents a major health and economic threat to Australia by degrading the lives of countless citizen Continue Reading...
