improving the healthcare outcomes for children and adults living with obesity (population at risk) in Wayne County, Michiga

Measurable Interventions

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Measurable Interventions

Obesity is a severe healthcare problem among the Michigan’s communities. As a result, there is a need for measurable interventions and evaluation of these interventions through evidence-based practice to have a long-term solution for obesity. Healthcare providers can cite various evidence about obesity among adults in Allen Village, Hillsdale County about the work they do and the results they achieve. These care workers accumulate evidence of their impacts of programs such as narratives about obesity among communities, challenges that the community face in dealing with obesity, and necessary interventions. However, these interventions must be measurable and pave the way for evaluation based on collected data and information from the community to determine their effectiveness in resolving obesity among people.

In my last Allen Village community assessment and windshield survey within Allen Village, the data and information revealed that a quarter of adults in Allen Village are obese. For every five members of the community assessed, one is overweight. Overweight is a primary measure of obesity since individuals who are overweight are regarded to have obesity (Teixeira et al., 2015). Diet was another factor evaluated. The data reveals that most of the families depend on pro-obesity foods such as fast food that have substantial content of fat and are sugar-sweetened. Also, Allen Village community enjoys good infrastructure such as railways and tarmacked roads; thus, residents cannot walk or cycle, they drive. Driving undermines physical activity hence make them prone to obesity.

In response to the collected data and information from the community on the obesity prevalence, there is a need for evidence-based behavior change to improve and promote health among adults in the Allen Village community. The behavior change develops an obesity-free community. Overweight and obese adults should engage in daily physical activity (a gym and regular walk) and avoid the use of public service vehicles and cars for short distances. The community should, therefore, use this behavior change as a self-regulation skill as a promising individual-level mediator of positive weight outcomes. The community should set gym centers to help adults reduce weight and overcome the obesity issue.

Obesity impacts both adults and children, hence a culturally sensitive, evidence-based Vida Saludable intervention to address the obesity issue. The community is engaged in developing this intervention, which is a two-phase-based program (Salerno et al., 2018). The first phase involves four biweekly interactive group lessons for obese adults to emphasize healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables, and the second phase focuses on healthy drinks approaches to reducing juice, soda, and sugary drinks. The nutritional perspective is equally prevalent in public health with cultural dimensions of nutrition as protective of obesity is interesting. Traditional foods lack chemical constituents that may have putative impacts on human health. The prevalence of medical sciences into the food’s field contributes to the exclusion of social and cultural functions of the meal.

Once these interventions are implemented, expectations are increased walking and cycling to and from workplaces in the morning and evening as well as morning-run before. This walk to work increases the levels of daily physical activity and makes commuting culture look like a health hazard. The perception will then develop among people that regular commuting is a risk factor to obesity and compel many people to walk to work in at least two days a week. These changes are a result of self-regulation skills for preventing and controlling obesity and have a significant influence in addressing community prevalent health problems, obesity being one of them.

Measurable interventions and evaluations based on evidence-based practices in the community rely on collected data and information from community assessment and windshield surveys. The collected data on the obesity issue in the community reveal many underlying issues on the obesity prevalence among adults in the Allen Village community in Hillsdale, Michigan. Measurable interventions such as daily walking and cycling to and from work can help in changing the dominance of obesity within the community (Teixeira et al., 2015). Further, Vida Saludable intervention addresses the issue by engaging members of the community where they learn healthy lifestyles in terms of diet. So, all other communities in Hillsdale County and State of Michigan in general, should try these measurable interventions to address the obesity problem.

References

Teixeira, P. J., Carraça, E. V., Marques, M. M., Rutter, H., Oppert, J. M., De Bourdeaudhuij, I., ... & Brug, J. (2015). Successful behavior changes in obesity interventions in adults: a systematic review of self-regulation mediators. BMC medicine, 13(1), 84.