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To prepare for this assessment, choose one public health issue (e.g. obesity, a chronic disease) in any country for which it is obvious that a systems thinking approach has not been, or is not being, applied. Then in approximately 1000 words (+/- 10%):• Describe the public health issue.• Explain the roles of stakeholders, both within the health system and in other sectors in addressing this issue.• Drawing on research evidence, explain the obstacles that are preventing the application of a systems thinking approach to this issue.• Based on the literature, offer suggestions (e.g. new governance arrangements) for how a systems thinking approach could be applied to thisissue.

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CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND AUSTRALIA: AN ANALYSIS OF HEALTHACRE SERVICES AND STAKEHOLDERS 
					EXECUTIVE SUMAMRY 
Obesity has one of the major social and healthcare issues in Australia especially the childhood one. There are several causes and factor which encourage obesity in Australian children. The following is an analysis of the roles that stakeholders have to play along with formal overview of the problem. The paper also makes evidence based recommendations which can be implemented at community level to reduce the impacts of the obesity. 
Introduction 
	The modern lifestyle has embarked several proportions of diseases to be a part of normal human life and obesity is one of them. In fact, obesity has reached to the degree of some sort of pandemic in some of the countries like USA and several regions of Europe of India. In Australia as well, the problem of obesity has now on alarming stage especially in the context of childhood and teenage obesity (Allender et al, 2015). In one of five children, there exist some symptoms of obesity, caused by non-routine lifestyle, in takes of various junk foods as well as lack of awareness about health and fitness.
Brief Overview of Childhood Obesity in Australia 
	At first, it is noteworthy here that in Australian context, the problem of obesity is more like some chronic illness that is caused by several factors. In recent decades, Australian societies have adhered to the modern culture, including food cultures of various nations. At the same time, the rapid growth of professional working has made people passive about health and fitness. To understand obesity with a broad perspective, it is the lack of consuming energy ingredients taken through various food sources. When it comes to children, in spite of the fact that they are gifted with energy level as very high, they tend to spend most of their times into indoor activities which does not let them exert their intakes of junk foods (Allender et al, 2015).
	As per some of the reports, in the year 2014-14, children between the age ranges of 2 to 4 were 20% obese, standing as one in five marked i.e. out of five, there was one child marked as obese. 27% of children between the age ranges of 4 to 17 years were marked as obese. A great increase of 4%--from 21% in 1995 to 25% in 2006.2007—is seen over the last two decades. Not only is this, since 2017,

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