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Identify the Population Health concern you selected.	Nutrition and Physical Health in the United States
Describe the Population Health concern you selected and the factors that contribute to it.	Nutritional and physical health are increasingly becoming important public health concerns in the United States. This pattern is primarily attributed to the emergence of lifestyle diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. In the United States, poor diet was in the past attributed to undernutrition. Currently, diet-related diseases are mainly attributed to excessive intake of calories, saturated fats, trans fats, as well as added sugars. The phenomenal increase in middle class population, poor diets and sedentary lifestyles, have resulted in high rates of obesity, overweight, and diet-related chronic ailments, such as cardiovascular diseases, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and certain forms of cancer. One particular problem that affects the American population is the surge in the number of overweight and obese individuals. This problem is primarily attributed to the American food culture, which federal governments have tried to change. In particular, the phenomenal rise in consumption of fast foods, sugar-sweetened and carbonated beverages, and foods high in calories, have aggravated the nutritional and physical health challenges in the United States.
Administration (President Name)	Donald Trump (Current President)	Barack Obama (Previous President)	George Bush (Previous President)
Describe the administrative agenda focus related to this issue for the current and two previous presidents.	President Trump focuses on prevention policy. This policy aims at reducing increase in lifestyle diseases, such as hypertension, obesity, and type 2 diabetes. As part of the prevention policy, the Trump administration has collaborated with the President’s Council of Sports to increase participation of people in physical activities and sports and educate them on good nutrition.	President Obama passed the Affordable Care Act, which focused on prevention and response to nutritional and physical health problems. The [prevention related sections of the ACA included provisions that emphasized on reducing obesity and other lifestyle diseases. The Obama administration also funded the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to undertake research and develop interventions for curbing nutritional health challenges in the country.	President Bush launched the HealthierUS initiative. This program was developed with the purpose of supporting American citizens to live a healthy and prolonged life. The HealthierUS initiative placed a lot of emphases on: promoting physically active everyday lives, eating nutritious diets, getting preventive screenings, as well as making healthier dietary choices.
Identify the allocations of financial and other resources that the current and two previous presidents dedicated to this issue.	The Trump administration allocates an average of $147 billion towards promoting healthy diets, preventing, and controlling chronic diseases, such as obesity and other cardiovascular diseases.	The Obama administration used to allocate an average of $169 billion per year in fighting obesity and diabetes alone. Moreover, an annual average $58 billion was also allocated for medical costs and response to chronic diseases.	President Bush’s HealthierUS initiative used approximately $1 billion in promoting physical activities, avoiding tobacco, and educating Americans on the benefits of embracing healthy diets and recommended nutritional practices.
Explain how each of the presidential administrations approached the issue.	Trump continues to embrace the notion that people are at least partly responsible for their health, behaviors, and actions. In order to support people to embrace healthy behaviors, the government provides the public with scientifically sound information. The Trump government also promotes public health education campaigns, which is an evidence-based approach in reducing nutritional-related health issues.	President Obama introduced comprehensive nutritional and physical health standards, procedures, and information. These programs particularly focused on designing national clinical guidelines, nutritional labeling of packaged foods, education and social marketing programs, and more recently, calorie labeling on restaurant menus. Obama’s federal programs also sought to increase equitable access and funding for fresh fruits and vegetables.	President Bush’s HealthierUS initiative focused on supporting American citizens across all ages and demographic backgrounds to take steps into improving their personal health and fitness. More precisely, the president issued two major Executive Orders that reinvigorated the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, including directing key individual departments and agencies to design plans for better promotion of fitness and athletic activities.