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Childhood obesity and Action Plan: The healthcare Project Overview
Introduction
    In a rapidly changing world, it is significant that healthcare needs and expectations of people are well met out. In fact, quality of care is one of the care values that healthcare industry works rigorously hard to manage; almost all the units and parts of administration deal with issues related to the policies and other factors like social implications about any disease or health issue. In the light of the above, childhood obesity is a major healthcare issue with which, the healthcare system of the United States deals with; almost one third of child population in America is literally obese and there can be many factors that can be held responsible for this issue. Lack of proper social and healthcare campaigns, educating children about healthy lifestyle at schools as well as at homes, having a strong policy based structure to perceive childhood obesity as healthcare problems are just some of the impeding barriers in the process of achieving effective solutions to the problem.
    In the same context, it is noteworthy here that the childhood obesity is a relevant healthcare issue to deal with. Childhood obesity actually has the consequences over the health not only at the childhood period but also in the later years of a person’s life. if not prevented in the early childhood or at teenage, obesity may bring in several other unwanted issues like hypertension, diabetes type 2 etc. Therefore, seeing that almost one third of overall childhood population in United Sates is obese raises several questions over the healthcare and social system. The gravity of the situation can be assessed by stating that since 1980s till date, the childhood obesity has been tripled in the United States. It shows how rapidly, the lifestyle based healthcare issue is finding its roots in the American social system. In various studies recently, it is justified through evidences that the childhood obesity has reached to the alarming stage where formal healthcare as well as social interventions are required.
    Additionally, the issue and its prevalence in United States dates back to the early decades of the 21st century, the time when globalization began taking place in American social system, cause them to have variety of foods available. At the same time, it was the time when multinational organizations were deeming with several possibilities and it made people passive about reviewing their lifestyle and habits. In other words, the rise of globalization carried forward the problem of being obese which was further transferred to the new generation and ultimately, it became the healthcare and social problem.
    In some of the survey reports, it has been established that 95th percentile of BMI in black children in United States during 1990s to early 2000s increased by five folds and the same BMI percentile was three fold in white children. “In the US, between 1971-1974 and 1999-2002 the prevalence of 6- to 11-year olds with a BMI > 95th percentile increased by 5-fold (4% to 20%) among black children compared to 3-fold (4% to 13%) among white children, with intermediate rates of increase seen in Mexican-American children” (Lashman et al, 2012). Thus, an overall but careful consideration is something that is expected to reduce the effects of the childhood obesity, with particular focus to be given over educating children at pre-school level. It will help in managing their lifestyles ahead as adults. The following paper examines the legislative perspectives to deal with the problem positively and at the same time, it examines the policy structure in healthcare sector to control or take preventive measures against childhood obesity.
Core Information
    In the context of seeking core information about the issue, the population that is selected for this assessment is in Californian region. It is noteworthy here that a multilevel intervention programs are needed to ensure that the evaluation of the population—which primarily shows that one third of its population among children is obese—is done positively. It is evident that multi-sector and multilevel approaches can have formal access to the problems in the general behavior of people and with the help of this model; an intervention can be made to encourage healthy lifestyle among people as well. However, some limitation based standpoints should also be considered in this context; there are diverse stakeholders in society and various communities and they have conventions to follow. Thus, not always, multilevel approach to deal with childhood obesity is contingent in dealing with the problem. Still, the approach will be effective in developing educational attitude in the communities so that they can at least learn about what consequences their children are to encounter in their adulthood, if the childhood obesity is not prevented at the early stage.
    The sources of data for analysis were primarily the websites and schools. The official...