Obesity is a growing trend that is affecting individuals significantly in the U.S. and throughout the world. “As of 2013, Kentucky ranks 42 in the U.S. for obesity and over the past year the rate of obesity has risen from 30.4 percent to 31.3 percent among its population.”1 Many factors contribute to the rate of obesity in Kentucky, but, in my opinion, the most significant contributing factor to this trend is physical inactivity. I am a resident of a very rural and underdeveloped community in Eastern Kentucky, where a significant portion of the population lives with a triage of comorbidities (diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and hypertension). I feel that these disease states that plague individuals could be improved significantly with a life style intervention of increasing physical activity. Several barriers that decrease physical activity for our community must be overcome to improve the health of our community, among the most significant of these barriers includes the built environment due to lack of infrastructure, poverty from lack of jobs, and a negative cultural perception on exercise. I would like to lobby to school board members of Johnson Central High School to allow public access of local community members to use school facilities during non-school hours to increase physical activity to improve the health of its community.
Health monitoring allows you to discover and treat health problems early, before consequences. Many psychological disorders, cancers, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases, and musculoskeletal disorders can be prevented by monitoring health and incorporating physical activity and exercise; for example: depression, breast cancer, obesity, cardiomyopathy, emphysema, and osteoarthritis. There are primary benefits that can be received from engaging in exercise or physical activity. One of the main benefits is reducing the risk of premature death: “it is been estimated that people who were physically active for approximately 7 hours a week have a 30 to 40% lower risk of dying early than those who are active less than 30 minutes per week” (Kohl & Murray 2012). It's clear that research has found the importance of avoiding inactivity and that even a little physical activity is better than none at all; due to dose response relation between poor health and the amount of physical activity.
Want to feel better, have more energy and reduce your risk of serious disease? Look no further than exercise. The health benefits of regular exercise and physical activity are hard to ignore. Physical activity not only makes a person feel better, it can actually increase a person’s life span. Many people battle obesity and side effects that are caused by this sickness. The American Medical Association has recognized it as a disease as of two thousand and thirteen. The Liberal government has just released a document that they are cutting the Children 's Fitness Tax Credit. This is a political mistake since physical activity is the key to a healthy life and a life free of disease.
Pate et al. (1995) stated that physical activity is needed for health promotion and disease prevention. They also stated that every adult should do at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise everyday if possible. Moderate intensity exercising includes activities such as brisk walking and cycling as stated by the Department of Health (2011). They also state that regular physical activity will improve a person’s mental health as it will increase self esteem and reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety. Physical wellbeing is also enhanced by an increase in physical activity. The World Health Organisation (WHO) (2002) found that in developed countries 20% of heart disease and 10% of strokes are due to physical inactivity. Furthermore a lack of physical activity is found to cause 3% of all diseases.
Many studies have come to the conclusion that individuals who participate in health and wellness routines as well as a regular exercise program have a relatively increased degree of energy, lower healthcare bills, much better quality of life along with less stress, as well as improved health. Staying in good physical shape and healthy calls for everyone, to be conscious of their health, to be aware of the key fitness and health components and to follow them.
In the year 1996, through a report by the Surgeon General, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) created a report called At-A-Glance, that contains information regarding the benefits that physical activity has when regarding health issues that face people as well as how said physical activity impacts their life in a positive way. The report combines different information gathered over the years that includes information regarding demographics as well as information regarding how frequency and intensity affect the impact that physical activity has. The Center or Disease Control states that “This report brings together, for the first time, what has been learned about physical activity and health from decades of research.”
I am working at Liberty University’s Dean of Student Office and I am required to sign up to do the Christian services. I signed up to help to assist in Commuter Tailgates, which is an event created to provide free food, games, and music for commuters, who are students live off campus. The supervisor assigned me primarily to welcome and show directions for commuters to check in and get in line. I was also helping other volunteers with their jobs such as organizing food on the tables, making popcorn and ice syrups, and transferring food to the table. In other words, I participated almost in all kinds of jobs. Before the events, all volunteers needs to come prior an hour to set
Volunteering at a camp for serving food to the homeless children was a great opportunity. The camp was organized by a not for profit organization and gave an opportunity to high school students to volunteer. They do not approach the students directly, they do it through high school. The camp took place in a small village, about two hundred miles far from my city. The camps' duration was for three consecutive days. It was one of the greatest experience of my life, I learned many new things and values, met with different people, explored new places and observed some different cultures.
Community organization, one of the many key determinants in building a happy and healthy community, is described as a means of aiding a society in detecting conjoint problems, achieving joint goals, and rallying the appropriate resources necessary to meet those goals (Glanz, Rimer & Viswanath, 2015). In this specific example the health department partnered with a local community organization that sought out ways on supplying its residents with affordable and healthy foods like fruits and vegetables. Due to the lack in accessibility and affordability of fresh groceries, members of the community partnered together and saw that they had one common interest and that was finding a way to increase the health of the community for generations to come.
Because Franklin County is so large, initial goals would be applied to a neighborhood setting before implementation across the county. To make a positive impact on health and decrease heart disease within the community, these goals are meant to decrease barriers to exercise and provide motivation for exercise participation. Two of the short-term goals address the barriers of time and cost. The other two short-term goals provide convenience and support and recognize that people are motivated differently
The increasing rate of obesity in Americans has been well documented, but less is known about the unique patterns and risks that may exist in rural, urban, and suburban environments. A better understanding of possible rural-urban differences in physical activity profiles may facilitate the development of more targeted physical activity involvements (Hariharan 2010; Parks and Brownson 2002). Consistent physical activity has been shown to be beneficial to an individual’s health. Studies have shown that a lower percentage of rural compared to urban/suburban adults participate in physical activity through fitness programs. Maintaining the required amounts of physical activity among individuals with limited access to community and health care facilities and other environmental obstacles is crucial to physical health (Nicklay and Hensley 2008).
Regular exercise is very important for a healthy life; in addition to that a healthy lifestyle is also required. If a person has both then he is bound to be healthy. Nowadays people know more about the advantages of a healthy lifestyle through the interconnectedness of the world than they did 40-50 years ago but still according to the Health and Social Care Information Centre the percentage of adults with normal BMI went down from 41% to 34% in the years 1993-2012 in the United Kingdom. If a person has a healthy lifestyle he will feel more energy flowing through his body and will be able to do his work more efficiently and with proper concentration thus leading to a better quality life. Furthermore regular exercise reduces weight and maintains a healthy body. A healthy lifestyle also reduces the risks of life threatening diseases such as diabetes, heart attack, stroke and depression. Regular exercise is also known to improve your mood; any physical activity discharges chemicals in the brain that make a person feel happy. Should the governments be held responsible for their people’s regular exercise? Well people choose the governments so that they can provide for them and keep them happy, as discussed before people will be happy if they are healthy and the government should ensure that their people exercise regularly. Organizations such as NHS in the UK spend up to 8.4 billion pounds per year on people’s physical inactivity. this article will look at how regular exercise and healthy life styles affect a person’s life and what the governments do and should do to ensure that people take a lively approach towards regular exercise and stay fit.
The role of public policy is becoming more important to developing strategies to stop the trend of physical inactivity. Policy makers have endorsed a need to position policy more towards active living; however, this is a complicated and complex process that covers multiple areas in the literature. The phenomenon under investigation is the implementation process of a state plan to increase physical activity at the local level. The first section of this literature review describes the term public policy, taking into account a number of policy definitions and processes from both public administration and public health literature, as well as several different understanding of factors influencing policy implementation. The second section addresses physical activity policy research in particular, providing a definition of and suggested discusses the recent developments of the national and state policy agenda related to physical activity. The following section addresses the criteria that characterize physical activity policy, summarizing what is known about the outcomes and effectiveness of such policies. The final section gives an insight into the analytic frameworks for policy implementation evaluation, establishing the features of process evaluation and program theory.
It is the community development movement of the late colonial particularly in the parts of Asia and Africa which created about 40years ago the concept of community participation. Community development was a way of training people in local administration, improving local welfare, and push government control through local self-help activities. However during that period, due to the bureaucratic top-down approach adopted by the colonial administrations, the policy failed to realize its objectives (McCommon, 1993).