Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
Childhood Obesity
Strengths and Barriers to Program Implementation for Childhood Obesity
With any plan to implement a program, there are both strengths and barriers. The program addressed here will be on childhood obesity. The strengths of the program will be community and organizational, while the barriers will be environmental and ethical. By carefully considering and addressing all of these, it can be determined how best to move forward with implementation of the program. That will provide the highest level of success for the program and will raise the value of it in such a way as to provide children and their parents with ways to combat obesity in their families and in their community.
Strengths -- Community and Organizational
The main strengths of the childhood obesity program are community and organizational in nature. When a community comes together, issues like childhood obesity can be mitigated (Ebbeling, Pawlak, & Ludwig, 2002). Additionally, communities can find ways to help parents learn more about healthy eating habits, which can lead to fewer children who are overweight or obese within that community (Must, et al., 1992; Reinehr & Wabitsch, 2011). Losing weight is not always easy, but good habits must begin in childhood or it will be harder to start those habits in later life. That can put children at a disadvantage, but strong community support at a young age will help them have more success with their weight throughout their life (Janssen, et al., 2004).
Proper organization...
When people throughout a community are interested in working together to help the children, they can organize many opportunities to reduce childhood obesity. For example, camps and other activities that are community-based and well-organized can go a very long way toward ensuring that children have plenty of options for exercise in their own neighborhoods (Janssen, et al., 2004). It is also possible to work with schools and daycares in the area on organized plans that provide for healthier eating options, so children consume fewer calories when they are away from home (Janssen, et al., 2004). Less can be done about how children eat at home, but organized information can still be sent home with children so they are more likely to adopt healthy eating and activity habits.
Barriers -- Environmental and Ethical
Any type of childhood obesity program is not without its barriers. There are those who are resistant to change, and those who feel it is an intrusion into their private life to have obesity programs. The two issues addressed here will be environmental and ethical. From an environmental standpoint, obesity can be hard for children to avoid (Ebbeling, Pawlak, & Ludwig, 2002). They are products of both genetics and their environment, and if they do not have an understanding of healthy eating and the value of exercise on a family level, they may not develop them from the community as easily (Reinehr & Wabitsch, 2011). While communities can do a lot…
References
Ebbeling, C.B., Pawlak, D.B., & Ludwig, D.S. (2002). Childhood obesity: Public-health crisis, common sense cure. Lancet, 360(9331): 473 -- 482.
Janssen, I., Craig, W.M., Boyce, W.F., & Pickett, W. (2004). Associations between overweight and obesity with bullying behaviors in school-aged children. Pediatrics, 113(5): 1187 -- 1194.
Must, A., Jacques, P.F., Dallal, G.E., Bajema, C.J., & Dietz, W.H. (1992). Long-term morbidity and mortality of overweight adolescents. A follow-up of the Harvard Growth Study of 1922 to 1935. The New England Journal of Medicine, 327(19): 1350 -- 1355.
Reinehr, T., & Wabitsch, M. (2011). Childhood obesity. Current Opinion in Lipidology, 22(1): 21 -- 25.
Childhood Obesity: Assessing the Effectiveness of the National School Lunch Program Assessing the Effectiveness of the National School Lunch Program: Childhood Obesity Childhood is a serious health concern for policymakers in the United States. It is estimated that currently, one in every five children below the ages of 2 and 19 in America is obese. For this reason, numerous policies have been formulated to help in preventing or minimizing the risk of
Childhood obesity is becoming prevalent with every passing day, almost uniformly in the developed parts of the world. This problem needs to be discussed on important forums so that substantial solutions can be sort for this issue as this is creating a lot of burden on the government as well as the parents of the children who become obese. Childhood obesity is defined as a condition in which the child has
Childhood Obesity Growing Where some oppose the idea of childhood obesity being a disease, there is still a growing epidemic where children's weight exceed the normal weight per height and age and increasing health concerns that must be addressed with a commitment to appropriate action plans to reduce and eliminate childhood obesity. From 1971-74 to 2009-10 childhood obesity increased from 4% to 18% in ages 6-11 and from 6.1% to 18.4% for
Childhood Obesity Study The research study titled, "Parents' perceptions and attitudes on childhood obesity: AQ-methodology study" by Akhtar-Danesh et al. (2010) details the perceptions that parents have toward the cause of obesity, how much obesity affects health, and the obstacles that exist in successfully implementing an obesity prevention program for children. Due to the nature of the research experiment, the test that was used was an appropriate method to attain the
Childhood Obesity in America The authorities can only address the issue of childhood obesity by educating people on the negative effects that the condition imposes, because only then can they get everyone, whether personally affected or not, aboard, and working towards a common childhood obesity-eradication goal (The U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2013). In order to do this, however, the authorities themselves ought to be at the forefront; people need to see
In the 90s, sugar, cookies, snacks and candies were amongst the foods that were most advertised on the TV. Since the 80s, the ads showing high fat and high sodium foods has almost doubled. Effects of Movie and TV show Characters on Eating habits of American Children There has been a great increase in the usage of cross promotions by the fast food companies as well. Other than this, one of