Child Obesity

The focus of public health management is to promote community health. This position requires attention such as conducting community evaluation, identifying vulnerable groups, ethical practices, community education, epidemiology. One problem addressed by public health is childhood obesity. Obesity continues to be a major health problem globally. As a health nurse, identifying people, assessing risks and educating the community will help find a system that can help solve this problem.

First of all, what is childhood obesity? The term childhood obesity means "children are between birth and puberty and obesity is very obese: obesity" (The American Heritage Dictionary 265, 856). This illness is caused by lack of exercise and overeating. Childhood obesity can cause many medical problems to children with this disease. Along with the development of technology Obesty is a ubiquitous disease. Furthermore, it is clear that lack of exercise is related to childhood obesity, scientists blame television on behalf of outdoor sports. Children spend hours watching television rather than playing sports. "The findings strongly support the idea that television viewing is the most important lifestyle factor in childhood obesity" (Monmaney). TV energizes the imagination of children and can entertain without running or exercising outdoors.

Like adult obesity, many factors contribute to the increase in childhood obesity rate. Two of the most important reasons for the recent increase in the incidence of childhood obesity are dietary changes and declining physical activity. Obesity is often examined for hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and fatty liver because childhood obesity usually lasts until adulthood and is associated with many chronic diseases. Treatment methods used by children are primarily lifestyle intervention and behavior techniques, but efforts to increase children's activities have little effect. In the United States, drugs are not approved by the FDA for this age group. Multifactor behavioral change intervention, including changes in diet and physical activity, is a minimal benefit and low evidence but in the short term there is a possibility of reducing the BMI for children between the ages of 6 and 11