Question

1- What is the current state or condition of the childhood obesity, and how is it affecting the specific community?

2- What approach might you use to address childhood obesity? How will it contribute to improving the community’s health?

3- Based on the research needs identified, what are the broader goals of your research? Keep in mind that goal statements should be broad and abstract, describing a state or condition you hope to achieve.

Answer 1

• 1.Childhood obesity is a serious problem in the United States putting children and adolescents at risk for poor health. Obesity prevalence among children and adolescents is still too high and definitely a dangerous problem currently as well.
  
• For children and adolescents aged 2-19 years:-
• The prevalence of obesity was 18.5% and affected about 13.7 million children and adolescents.
• Obesity prevalence was 13.9% among 2- to 5-year-olds, 18.4% among 6- to 11-year-olds, and 20.6% among 12- to 19-year-olds. Childhood obesity is also more common among certain populations.
• Hispanics (25.8%) and non-Hispanic blacks (22.0%) had higher obesity prevalence than non-Hispanic whites (14.1%).
• The obesity epidemic threatens to shorten life expectancy in the United States and bankrupt the health care system.
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