besity worldwide is at an all-time high, affecting both adults and children. Australia has now been classed as the heaviest population, with figures higher than 9 million adults classified as obese or overweight (Clarke, 2010). It has been identified that the leading causes of childhood obesity can be attributed to parental characteristics; weight status and nutritional awareness of parents and parenting habits; parent encouragement and types of food available to the child and income and socioeconomic status (Johnson et al., 2012).
In an attempt to fight the national epidemic of obesity, the small town of Colac instigated a campaign to reduce health inequalities and childhood obesity. Colac is a town of 11,000 inhabitants and is funded by …show more content…
The strong community capacity and healthy environments enabled both the children and parents to make more knowledgeable and safer …show more content…
Variables for healthy eating and physical activity levels were able to be monitored during school hours but this became harder after school and during weekends providing a limited context of results. Many of the projects implemented were short term and lacked sufficient or recurrent funding. This means that the projects are not self-sufficient and will therefore not be effective in reaching the objectives of the project.
It has been suggested that it would be beneficial if an easy way to find out your body mass index (BMI) was available to the Australian population. In the long run this would be beneficial in reducing BMI as the general public could be wary of it with easy access to it. It has also been suggested that interventions such as the walking bus could have been more beneficial if more advice and knowledge had been provided into the benefits of active transport. Lack of parent time, parent engagement and an increased concern over safety were all issues that needed to be tackled in order for the intervention to
In an attempt to fight the national epidemic of obesity, the small town of Colac instigated a campaign to reduce health inequalities and childhood obesity. Colac is a town of 11,000 inhabitants and is funded by …show more content…
The strong community capacity and healthy environments enabled both the children and parents to make more knowledgeable and safer …show more content…
Variables for healthy eating and physical activity levels were able to be monitored during school hours but this became harder after school and during weekends providing a limited context of results. Many of the projects implemented were short term and lacked sufficient or recurrent funding. This means that the projects are not self-sufficient and will therefore not be effective in reaching the objectives of the project.
It has been suggested that it would be beneficial if an easy way to find out your body mass index (BMI) was available to the Australian population. In the long run this would be beneficial in reducing BMI as the general public could be wary of it with easy access to it. It has also been suggested that interventions such as the walking bus could have been more beneficial if more advice and knowledge had been provided into the benefits of active transport. Lack of parent time, parent engagement and an increased concern over safety were all issues that needed to be tackled in order for the intervention to