Childhood Obesity: Prevention Programs

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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

The purpose of this paper is to explore the educational services provided by the federal and local government while looking at programs that are instituted presently for child obesity in age ranges 2 – 10 years of age. The general public is looking for answers but there is not one set course of action for these children. There are many different roads that are many recommended courses of action this particular group. A couple of examples are counting calories or increasing physical activity. Some solutions are quicker than others; which ones are reliable?

IMPACT ON PATIENTS AND PATIENT CARE

The impact of this disease can have a large impact not only on the patient but also upon the parent as well. Patients can develop low self-esteem, poor body image, high blood pressure, fatigue and sleep apnea. Care can be difficult to provide for patients because the normal ranges of tests and a variety of skills change. An example of this is in-hospital pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for obese children, “…obese children experiencing cardiopulmonary arrest may be complicated by difficulties with the quality of CPR and problems with drug dosages.” (Srinivasan, Nadkarni, Helfaer, Carey, Berg, 2010) Some precise problems would be “chest compressions” (Srinivasan et al., 2010) Where would the nurse give them? How many times? The answer will be discussed in the impact on nurses section. Another article that was written explains that, “By the time they (obese children) are barely 10, …are pushed into puberty by bodies that are ready to reproduce even if they are not remotely ready to be sexually active.” (Park, 2014) The progressions of children who are obese are showing a generation of young people wh...

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..., McCauley Ohannesian, C. Hernandez, D. Grant, A., & Cloutier, M. M. (2014) Steps to growing up healthy: a pediatric primary care based obesity prevention program for young children. BMC Public Health, 14(1), 1-20. Doi: 10.1186/1471-2458- 14-72

Park, A. (2014).Young kids, old bodies. Time, 183(8), 40.

Srinivasan, V., Nadkarni, V., Helfaer, M. A., Carey, S. M., Berg, R., & , (2010). Childhood obesity and survival after in-hospital pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of pediatrics, 125(3), 481-487. doi: 10.1542

Texas Department of State Health Services. (2012) Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention Program. Retrieved from http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/obesity/NPAOPprogrampage.shtm

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