M7-320

OBESITY IN CHILDREN 1

Obesity in Children

Thesis Statement

Childhood obesity is a complex health issue and occurs when the child is above normal weight. The cause of childhood obesity is the same for adults, thus entails behavior and genetics. Moreover, obesity is affected by an individual's community as it can impact the ability to make healthy choices on the issue of behavior eating of extra high-calorie, low-nutrients, and beverages. In addition, there is the utilization of medicine, sleep routine ad failure to get enough physical activity. Sedentary activities like watching television can cause this condition of obesity in children.

Full-sentence outline

Title: Health Care issue concerning obesity in children

Topic: Obesity in Children

Specific Purpose: To inform the audience about the nature of obesity in children, social-economic principles, and the impacts.

Thesis Statement: The main idea is obesity in children in public health, the economic principles, the impacts of obesity in children, and the related socioeconomic factors.

Introduction

The issue of obesity in children is concerned with poor psychological and emotional health. More children undergo bullying connected to their weight, and their chances of becoming adults are high due to obesity—the social-economic principles and impacts of obesity in children. The social-economic status, race, parental smoking is associated with children becoming obese. Children obesity is described as a critical public health issue, and thus, more discussion will be done on how healthcare organizations have impacted obesity in children.

Body

Obesity in children is associated with critical issues like poorer mental health results and reduced quality of life. When the child is suffering from obesity, the leading cause like death and even diabetes and heart disease are involved. There is even the issue associated with obesity like the poor psychological and the emotional health.

Economic principles and indicators with specific examples

Obesity affects individuals of all ages and the socioeconomic sub-sets and both genders. Obesity has the main economic aspects, thus affecting the demand for the supply of health care. For example, it has relations to requirements and the supply in markets for food, restaurants, and advertising ( Okada, 2018). Due to obesity, there is a greater increase in budget concerning healthcare and thus attracts concern from governments. The whole economic burden of obesity entails various costs borne by the governments, healthcare, and obese personnel.

The principles of health economics include the notions of scarcity and supply and demand. Moreover, there is discounting and the efficiency and the equity and deals with the resource allocation. Therefore the impact of childhood obesity implies the future costs for overweight children.

Economic impacts of obesity in children

Obesity has got a significant effect on psychological and physical health. Thus children can remain obese till adult life than leading to non-communicable sicknesses. For example, there is the imposition of costs in the form of lost productivity and foregone economic growth due to lost workdays on the issue of impacts. In addition, there is productivity that is low at the job, permanent disability, and mortality.

Extend principles and indicators apply

The management of obesity entails lifestyle modifications and medications, or even surgery. The good treatment of overweight is the loss of the weight, dieting and ensure physical activity are done.

Context which obesity in children exists and extend to socioeconomic factor

In the case of the child concerning obesity, ecological niches entail family and the school. They are, in turn, embedded in large community contexts involving community and the society at large. On the issue of social-economic factors like income, employment, and community safety affect how well and long people live. Thus affecting the ability of people to make healthy choices ( Sarwer, 2020).

Healthcare organizations impacted by obesity in children and current reaction to obesity

The healthcare organizations like nursing facilities have been impacted by obesity in children by complicating the nursing interventions for obese children. Whereby the assessment and resuscitation measures and the altered drug absorption have to pose a nursing concern. The current actions being taken are that more emphasis is being put on quality physical education and physical activity for all public school children.

References

Okada, C., Tabuchi, T., & Iso, H. (2018). Association between skipping breakfast in parents and children and childhood overweight/obesity among children: a nationwide 10.5-year prospective study in Japan. International Journal of Obesity, 42(10), 1724-1732.

Sarwer, D. B., & Grilo, C. M. (2020). Obesity: Psychosocial and behavioral aspects of a modern epidemic: Introduction to the special issue. American Psychologist, 75(2), 135.