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Rimsha answered on
Oct 11 2021
Running Head: HEALTHCARE 1
HEALTHCARE 2
PREVENTION OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESITY IN SELECTED CHILDCARE FACILITY
Table of Contents
Demographic of Childcare Facility and its Su
ounding Community 3
Aetiology and Epidemiology of Overweight and Obesity in the Target Group 5
Stakeholder Group Selection 7
Interventions Taken 8
Communication Strategy Used 10
Evaluation Framework 11
References 13
Demographic of Childcare Facility and its Su
ounding Community
The childcare centre selected for the intervention is Community Kids Bargo Child Care Centre in Bargo. The reason for selection of this childcare centre is due to its location in small town with high number of Indigenous populations. The community city centre provides the nurturing environment for children between the age of six weeks and six years. This facility remains open for 12 hours between 6:30 am and 6:30 pm. The community centre provides the care to the children from the wide range of the income group (Community Kids Bargo Child Care Centre, 2019).
Children are the base of the society. They form the future of every country, which is why it is very important that their future be secured with a strong base first. That is why, this organisation focuses on children, who are mostly from the low-income group who has both the parents are working. The community centre consists of the educators and assistance trained in early childhood development and well-equip to support the children from all age and religion. The community centre is a
anch of the elaborated network of the community centre, which provides support to the low-income groups (Community Kids Bargo Early Education Centre, 2019).
This centre offers bus service and nutritious meals prepared for them by experienced cook. It also provides the developmental programme, which are age appropriate and based on the Early Years Learning Framework. They fulfil each children’s cultural, religious and nutritional needs as well as encourage communication from parents so that the parents can have an eye on their child’s progress throughout the day. This centre also offers preschool programme to the children so that they can be supported for the transition from preschool to school. The focus is made on language, literacy, numeracy, social skills and moral skills of the children (Community Kids Bargo Child Care Centre, 2019).
The community centre offers subsidiary given by the government so that low-income groups can afford the facilities (Community Kids Bargo Early Education Centre, 2019). This community centre in the Bargo, which is a very small town near the MacArthur regions, which have total of 4,393 population. This region consists of around 3.7% of the Aboriginal population is present in the area (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2019). The community is very small and the health care awareness as well as the facilities is very limited. Since the community is rich in Indigenous population, the childcare centre also has many children who belong to the Indigenous population.
It has been noted that childcare centre provide support to the low-income group, children belonging to the lower income group also been part of the care facility. As mentioned by Kim et al. (2016), people belong to lower income group have poor awareness about the health. Adults as well as children are suffering from the poor health. The rate of obesity in children with low-income group is very high in comparison to other income group.
On the contrary, as mentioned by Bhawra, Cooke, Hanning, Wilk and Gonneville (2015), the lifestyle, culture and living habits of indigenous population of Australia is different from non-indigenous population. Indigenous population is more vulnerable to diseases and poor health outcome in comparison to other population of the country. Indigenous population are suffering from the diseases and infections, which are eradicated from the country in long gone past.
There is very high rate of obesity in the children of Aboriginal population. As noted by Dyer et al. (2017), it has been seen that Australia stands at the fifth position in context of the obesity. The occu
ence of the obesity is very high amongst the children. There are various reasons for the obesity in the children. One of the most prominent reason for occu
ence of high rate of obesity is inclination of children towards fast food and lack of physical activity. Most of the children prefer burgers and soft drinks instead of green salad. They eat chocolates very frequently, which result in poor health outcome (Sahoo et al., 2015).
Aetiology and Epidemiology of Overweight and Obesity in the Target Group
In the target group, only thirty-five per cent of the group of children were fit and healthy. Around forty-five per cent of the children were overweight and twenty per cent of the children were obese. The target group of children selected for the intervention was overweight and obese children. The specification of the group in not taken under consideration as it is community intervention.
Obesity has become the global burden. It has been seen that every other person is either overweight or obese. Similar condition can be observed in children. As suggested by Aggarwal and Jain (2018), there are many factors responsible for the obesity. These factors can be genetic, environmental, behavioural, physiological, social and cultural. This led to the imbalance of the energy and increase in the deposition of the fat in the body.
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ently, Australian’s situation related to obesity is alarming due to high rate of obesity among children. As suggested by Kadouh and Acosta (2017), sedentary lifestyle and increase in the intake of the energy are the primary cause of the obesity, even though genes also play important role in regulation of the body weight. The consumption of fast food, change in trend of eating habits and lack of physical activities has become very common in children.
Children prefer fast food and ca
onated drinks as a food over healthy food, which making them obese. All form of fast food and ca
onated drinks have high sugar content, fats and ca
ohydrates. The alarmingly high amount of fat entered in the body and get stored, as a result, children become overweight or obesity. Another factor, which contributed towards increased rate of obesity, is lack of proper physical exercise or physical activity, as children prefer playing mobile games to outdoor games (Kadouh & Acosta, 2017).
As mentioned by Kumar and Kelly (2017), obesity in children makes them vulnerable towards diseases like high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol. It lowers their self-esteem and slipped depression them into due to their peer pressure. Obesity can be diagnosed by physical observation or by measuring BMI index. There are other factors also which affect the increase in obesity in the children such as fast food industry targeting children in advertisement to increase the sales of their product.
Their advertisement develops the curiosity in children to consume the new product i
espective of its impact on health (Sonntag, Schneider, Mdege, Ali & Schmidt, 2015). Since the working parents are very busy to take care of their children, in a guilt they bought all the things they can afford to their parents when demanded. There is imbalance between expenditure of the energy and consumption of the energy due to the behavioural factor.
As suggested by Hemmingsson (2018), lack of awareness in the parents especially belonging to the Indigenous population or lower-income group is also responsible for the increase in cases of the obesity in children. Adverse dietary pattern is one of the factors responsible for the increase in the obesity in children. In 2015, 63.4% of Australian adults are either obese or overweight, and half of these are living with obesity.
Tasmania had highest rate of obesity whereas capital te
itory had the lowest obesity. Recent data suggests that 27.6% of Australian...