Issues/Problems

Epidemiology research

Weltee Wolo

Rasmussen College

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on November 11, 2017 Nichole Crais’s

Epidemiology H430/HSC4500 course

Epidemiology research

Obesity was previously viewed as an individual problem that would be dealt with on a personal or family level. It was seen as a problem that required no scientific approach, in children, the obesity prevention was not taken to be a severe threat as it was away assumed that children would, eventually lose the weight with time.

This view was held for a long time until when the prevalence of obesity became endemic to the significant portion of the USA population. Three levels of identifying obesity were developed in 1995. This classification had the universal community, those targeting a particular part of the class such as age, race, and income levels (World Health Organization, 2012). The third levels were the indicated population, which is the population portion the highest risk of obesity.

The intervention was shifted from the individual levels it strategies targeting the entire populations. However, in both cases, people are required to maintain a given optimal weight, which is neither over nor under the normal weight (Walls, Peeters, Proietto, & McNeil, 2011). A new framework for addressing the obesity has been developed as a guide for the Health Practitioners.

The logic model has health outcomes resulting from the common issues, which includes the institutional, the structural, systemic and the environmental consequences present inn then communities. These findings affect the cognitive, the social, and the behavioral issues of the affected persons.

The current intervention has also taken a dietary angle where nutritionist calls for the observation of proper nutritional uptake. The view is that the population sector has to take actions based on the population behaviors that predispose the affected persons to excessive calories and small physical activities (Walls, Peeters, Proietto, & McNeil, 2011).

References

Walls, H. L., Peeters, A., Proietto, J., & McNeil, J. J. (2011). Public health campaigns and obesity - a critique. BMC Public Health, 11(136).

World Health Organization. (2012). Population-based approaches to CHILDHOOD OBESITY PREVENTION. 16-52. Retrieved from http://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/childhood/WHO_new_childhoodobesity_PREVENTION_27nov_HR_PRINT_OK.pdf