Healthy People: The Bogalusa Heart Study

The Healthy People 2020 collects data about an individual family, social, economic and physical environment in regards to how it affects public health. It breaks it down to the individual level and population level for risk factors and disease-specific information and the different prevention methods. There are social determinates of health such as location and socioeconomic environment. This can be impacted by policies, programs, and institutions by the government and private sector. The choices individuals make have positive and negative impacts on their health and environment. Adults and childhood obesity is becoming a common costly epidemic and a major public health problem. The United States has been impacted directly and indirectly with the medical cost of treating …show more content…
This study is the longest running biracial study of children early onset risk factors. The study discovers that children whom are exposed to unhealthy habits will likely keep them unto adulthood. The environmental factors that impact obesity is increase calorie intake, social media, television and magazine advertisements for low price high calorie foods. Portion sizes have changed and more working women lead to less homecooked meals. Another factor is work becoming more sedentary so there is less energy expenditure. Obesity is impacted by eating habits, physical activity, biological process and social and environmental mechanisms (Martin, Myers, & Brantley, 2004). African American girls when compared to adult women were 1 to 3kg heavier than Caucasian girls their age after the age of 13 years old. The early onset of menarche is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and breast cancer in adulthood. African American girls are 2 times more likely to disapprove of their body image than Caucasian girls in regards to their body mass index (Webber & Bedimo-Rung,