Question

• How preventing childhood obesity relates to one of the Healthy People 2020 goals and/or objectives.
• Why is health promotion and disease prevention so important in nursing practice?
• Do you envision any future opportunities to expand your Community Health project?
• Give an overview of your community's health promotion or disease prevention offerings. Pick one of the Healthy People goals and evaluate your community's efforts towards this goal.

Answer 1

Preventing childhood obesity is the healthy people goal of 2020: the major objective of healthy people 2020 is that all the people live a long and healthy life. That means that people could enjoy their lives in high quality I e; disease-free life which can be only possible if the children will be free from diseases. As we all are well aware of the fact that obesity is the mother of many diseases. Setting healthy goals for them can help us in all the possible manner.

Nurses have direct interaction with the community so nurses can promote an educate people about the importance of living healthy and choosing healthy lifestyle is very important.

Community health project is responsible for the health of that community so setting a example for them by living healthy life style and educating as a volunteer to them about the same can help them alot..

Teaching the community the importance eating healthy really means a lot for good health. But the reality of the community is that people are so busy with their official works that they don't have time to cook healthy food which is the major drawback of the society they eat that whatever is easy to cook or ready to eat.