Childhood Obesity and my Entrepreneurial Idea

Abstract

America is one of the countries in the world with the highest rates of childhood obesity. Various databases register over 13.7 million victims struggling with the health challenge. As a public health matter, various attempts have been made to help to stop or reduce the rising number of obese children. Notably, secondary and tertiary levels have commonly been used. Therefore, it is vital to create a health promotion model that relies on primary and secondary levels of obesity prevention. However, the model is built in line with Evidence-Based Research and Practice (EBP) including the components and the Evidence Research Practice (EBP) model itself. If you were to turn the plan into a potential business, resources will need to be collected, objectives and goals established. To sustainably operate this idea, shareholders will be paramount, and more effort placed in outreach activities to guide parents and monitor the child's progress will be needed.

Childhood Obesity and My Entrepreneurial Idea

Childhood obesity is best understood as a health challenge that affects both children and teenagers. It is known to occur due to the existence of too many fats within the body. For a child to be declared obese, he or she must be overweight beyond the medically required normal measurement (CDC, 2018). However, age is also an important factor in determining if a child is in fact obese. This health challenge is noted to be on the gradual increase in the United States. Various strategies are hereby required to combat it. There are many public health initiatives that have been undertaken. Five prevention levels have been streamlined and they include the primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary and primordial levels of disease prevention.

However, the most common types of prevention levels are the first three. In this paper it will review childhood obesity as it gradually rises in the United States and then propose the creation of an entrepreneurial plan in form of a health promotion that will be aimed at reducing it or if possible solving the challenge completely.

There are possibilities of other health challenges occurring in the due course of the health promotion program. This significantly alters the goal thus interfering with the child's results. Other health promotion components include advocacy and the emphasis on proper nutrition for obese children. In adherence to the outlined health promotion components in line with an evidenced-based research (EBR), it is more likely that the challenge can be reduced (Levels of Prevention, 2013).

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the latest statistics show that 18.5% is a general prevalence of obesity in the United States with an approximated 13.7 million teenagers and children combined. This is only among children and teenagers between the ages of 2 and 19 years. To be exact, obesity of children between the ages of 2 and 5 years cover a total of 13.9% and children between the ages of 6 and 11 are 18.4%. If we are to take into consideration the various ethnicities, the prevalence of the disease is most common among the Hispanic with 25.8% in comparison to the 22% among the non-Hispanic blacks.

To address the matter above, a health promotion plan is required. First, the components of a health promotion plan must be identified. To begin with, goal setting is foremost to understand the direction of the health program. Here, the goal is to gradually reduce the weight of these obese children. This must be focused on solving childhood obesity as the core problem. During the initial training, the child's parents/caretakers must be advised on the importance of healthy eating habits instead of stopping the child from specific diets or foods (Public Health & its Five Levels of Prevention, 2016).

Parents must also learn and understand the psychological impact that some obese children can suffer from. Healthy, open communication must be introduced to deal with any resulting issues, for example isolation or depression. A child must feel as though the issue is being taken care of. The health promotion component of physical activity must be handled with ultimate concern. A child that is obese needs exercise to promote health. Another component of health promotion among obese children is the fact that the victim's health must be maintained.
To support the health promotion for childhood obesity which is on the rise, it is required to suggest an evidence-based model that supports it.

An evidence-based model is explained as a systematic framework availed for nurses to integrate well-articulated interventions that are clinically evidenced with ethical inclusions (CDC, 2018). One example of an Evidence-Based Model is the Parents as Teachers (PAT) model. This type of model offers the simple and visual elaboration of the parents as teachers of their own child. (Morshed et al., 2018). The parents as teachers model comprise of 4 key components that interrelate with each other. For example, a one-on-one with the parent and the child. Here, home visits are done to ensure that results are being attained. Others include group connections, Health and developmental screening for the obesity stricken child, and lastly, a resource-oriented network for the affected families.

Relating the identified Evidence-Based Practice model (EBP) to the health promotion model under creation, the two concepts potentially address the public health challenge as both primary and secondary levels of disease prevention. The suggested PAT model offers parents an avenue to teach their own children matters concerning living a healthy life (Morshed et al., 2018). As a primary prevention for the health promotion strategy, talking to children out of depression as a component of health promotion is a paramount move.

Parents must be taught that for their obese children to revive their health, they should gain or rather maintain weight slowly instead of losing it at once. Relating this to the health maintenance components of the health promotion program, the program becomes viable if the rules are followed. The PAT evidenced-based model offers regular visitations to parents and their obese children purposely to monitor progress. The attribution training component of the health promotion program demands parents to embrace the facts and beliefs that the children can potentially get better under their own guidance. Precisely, the increasing obesity challenge among children in the United States can be outplayed by using the outlined health promotion strategy under the PAT Evidence-Based Practice. Interventions for childhood obesity yield more results when parents are involved.

Implementing a Plan to Help Reduce Childhood Obesity

In order to reduce the prevalence of childhood obesity in the United States, a streamlined health promotion plan must be implemented. The objectives of the health promotion are to involve parents in the due process of reducing obesity among the diagnosed children to 5 percent. Here, out of the 50 states in America, there are 24 others already with the program. This implies that 26 other states do not have PAT health promotion programs running (Morshed et al., 2018). Therefore, the 26 states are the potential markets in which the health promotion can be launched for the operation to reduce the increasing numbers of childhood obesity cases. The collaborating partners are the professional regulatory body known as NNA, the Ottawa Charter Groups who venture in creating supportive environments for health development, and the parent's union who must undertake the overall responsibility. The health promotion program addresses the health people 2020 which focusses on the planned action to reduce the obesity prevalence amongst the United States population.

Entrepreneurial Component

Nursing entrepreneurship is a business-oriented concept that identifies a nurse or group whose interest falls in offering nursing services in a legal but financially beneficial manner. Here, nurses use their own creativity to develop unique concepts that help in providing solutions (International Council of Nurses, n.d). However, a nurse entrepreneur's services must revolve around healthcare products or services under the regulatory system such as the National Nurse Association (NNA). Before venturing into the nursing fraternity, a nurse is expected to consider the legally defined legitimacy, credibility from society and the operating conditions.

The Business or Component to Institute

Every nurse is trained to serve the interests of the childs and other stakeholders within health facilities. However, today, nurses have moved out of their comfort zone to create and innovate concepts that enhance the quality of healthcare services which are offered for a financial return. For example, a plan for the health promotion program if successfully implemented potentially addresses the public health issue of obesity in the United States (International Council of Nurses, n.d). The business component for the health promotion business plan will be established facilities across various states with a kid's gym, PAT departments and a highly qualified inspection team to conduct follow-ups, create partnerships with schools purposely to reach out to the victims easily, and a counseling team. T

he purpose of the health promotion plan is to fight the socially prevalent obesity among children at an affordable cost for every victim to afford. The mission of the plan is to equip parents with basic skills to manage obesity stricken children in families with genetically recurring situations. The goal is to arrive at an obesity-free and productive future generation. Resources can be raised from donations, proprietor capital worth 50,000 US Dollars for the first five establishments. Sustaining the venture will be through annual shareholder advertisements and outreach actions to find and train parents besides monitoring child progress.

Conclusion

To conclude, childhood obesity is understood as a persistently rising health challenge in the United States of America. Statistics show that over 13.7 million children and teenagers are struggling with obesity. As a public health challenge, it is noted that the most strategic preventive action is done by applying a health promotion which incorporates both primary and secondary preventive levels. The promotional components are integrated with the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) which later n derives a comprehensive health promotion model such as the Parents as Teachers (PAT) model.

To implement the health promotion model, the objective, goal, sustainability, population and many other factors are explained. Nursing entrepreneurs nowadays creatively innovate solutions for childs at a fee. Regarding the above health promotion model, a plan to make a business out of it is streamlined and explained in details. However, sustainability simply lies within outreach activities and shareholder advertisements.

References

• CDC. (2018, August 13). Childhood Obesity Facts | Overweight & Obesity | CDC. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html
• International Council of Nurses (n.d). Guidelines on the Nurse Entre/ Intrapreneur Providing Nursing Service, Retrieved from https://www.ipnig.ca/education/Guidelines-NurseEntre-ICN.pdf
• Levels of Prevention [Video file]. (2013, May 29). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=TlGe80Mi85U&app=desktop
• Morshed, A. B., Tabak, R. G., Schwarz, C. D., & Haire-Joshu, D. (2018). The Impact of a Healthy Weight Intervention Embedded in a Home-Visiting Program on Children's Weight and Mothers' Feeding Practices. Journal of nutrition education and behavior.
• Public Health & its Five Levels of Prevention [Video file]. (2016, February 26). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgyN9Xotpw0&feature=youtu.be

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