ealth Promotion PowerPoint Presentation
Health policy unfolds daily and drives clinical practice in the United States.
For this assignment, you will expand on every item included in the PowerPoint Outline assignment you submitted during Week 1. The assignment will follow APA formatting and must be supported by the evidence.
For your presentation, you will dedicate 1 to 3 slides to each item listed in the outline. Please be sure to address each item listed. See below:
Slide: Title Page
Slide: Outline (this is the slide(s) from Week 1)
Slide: Discuss your chosen Healthy People 2030 Objective
Slide: Discuss the epidemiology, incidence, prevalence, and cost-burden of the problem
Slide: Describe the problem and the specific population
Slide: Discuss how the Healthy People 2030 objective intends to address/improve the problem or population
Slide: Discuss the legislators who are working on the problem and the policies they are working on to improve the problem
Slide: Discuss how the policy influences clinical practice and is used to promote best outcomes
Slide: Discuss how the policy can be used by an inter-professional team to improve the problem
Slide: Conclude: provide a summary of the problem, the policy, the solution, and your analysis
Slide: References
Overweight and obesity outline
Ivis Perez Delgado
South University Online
12/6/2021
Healthy people 2030 goal: Reduce overweight and obesity by helping people eat healthy and get physical activity
Problems addressed
The proportion of children and adolescents with obesity
Reduce the proportion of people who don’t know they have pre-diabetes
Reduce consumption of added sugars for people above 2 years
Increased the proportion of women with healthy weight before pregnancy
The epidemiology, incidence, prevalence, and cost-burden of the problem
The prevalence of obesity in US was 42% between 2017-2018
About 2 in 5 adults and 1 in 5 children and adolescents in the United States have obesity
By 2008, the medical cost of obesity stood at $147 billion
Description of a specific population or problem
Obesity is a serious costly disease that is characterized by excess bodyweight for height. This disease is linked with other health problems such as stroke, heart disease and diabetes.
Reduce overweight and obesity by helping people eat healthy and get physical activity
The policy intended to improve the specific population
The purpose of the policies is to reduce obesity and overweight by ensuring people eat nutritious food and engage in physical activity
Specific legislators involved
The government
The food industry
Employers
The health care providers
How the policy influences clinical practice and is used to promote best outcomes
It helps people eat nutritious food
Develop public interventions that help people engage in physical activity
Encourage people with obesity to do health care visits
Reduce overweight and obesity by helping people eat healthy and get physical activity
How the policy can be used by the inter-professional team
Obesity and overweight cannot be reduced with a single intervention. It require an inter-professional team involving doctors, nurses, physicians, nutritionist and family
References
Hruby, A., & Hu, F. (2015). The Epidemiology of Obesity: A Big Picture. Pharmacoeconomics, 33(7), 673-689. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40273-014-0243-x
Philip T. James, W., Jackson-Leach, R., Shayeghi, M., Kalamara, E., & Mhurchu, C. Overweight and obesity (high body mass index). Who.int. https://www.who.int/publications/cra/chapters/volume1/0497-0596.pdf.
Rana, K., Ghimire, P., Chimoriya, R., & Chimoriya, R. (2021). Trends in the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity and Associated Socioeconomic and Household Environmental Factors among Women in Nepal: Findings from the Nepal Demographic and Health Surveys. Obesities, 1(2), 113-135. https://doi.org/10.3390/obesities1020011
