Obesity in the United States in a serious problem that severe has health complication that can affect individuals’ lives. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 17% or 12.7 million children and adolescents 2-19 years of age are obese. Obesity levels among adolescents are due to many different interconnected factors such as low family socioeconomic status, family education level, personal beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge, environmental influences such as the neighborhood the individual lives in, policy level influences such as regulations on the food items being sold in stores, lack of a nutritious diet, and sedentary lifestyles, just to name a few examples. For this project, our group decided to focus on
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This model focuses on 10 factors that make the child feel safe, engaged, supported, challenged, and healthy through the collaboration of the child’s social networks, family, community, and school. The four components of CATCH are the classroom curriculum, the nutrition program, the family and community program, physical education program. The classroom curriculum is run by the teachers and is designed to help children learn about nutrition and physical activity through CATCH’s classroom coordinated kit that includes lesson plans and educational games, as well as ways to exercise in the classroom. The nutrition program focuses on working with the school cafeterias to provide healthier food options and on teaching children the go, slow, whoa food system, which categorizes food items and teaches kids to recognize the health food items. The family program concentrates in communicating with the families of the children and helping them create a healthier environment at home. The physical education component was the aspect of CATCH that our group decided to focus in since our research was on physical …show more content…
One suggestion I would have to be able to provide many more schools with the CATCH programs is to provide flexible pricing options for low-income schools. According to the Flag house’s website, the company that it partnered up with CATCH to sell the CATCH equipment, the middle school PE equipment package for 20 students costs $2,395 before taxes and the activity boxes are $225. For the after school programs equipment package costs $1,995 before taxes and the activity box is $275. There are still additional costs for staff training and extra equipment, such as the classroom curriculum. CATCH’s cost-effectiveness ratio or the intervention costs per quality-adjusted life years (QALY) has be found to be$889.68, essentially costing $68,125 less per person that the estimated present value of future medical and unproductivity costs of a person that is not exposed to CATCH (Brown et al, 2007). The program is proven to work and be cost-effective, however providing payment plans or reduced prices for low0income areas, would allow more schools and after-school programs to implement
This model focuses on 10 factors that make the child feel safe, engaged, supported, challenged, and healthy through the collaboration of the child’s social networks, family, community, and school. The four components of CATCH are the classroom curriculum, the nutrition program, the family and community program, physical education program. The classroom curriculum is run by the teachers and is designed to help children learn about nutrition and physical activity through CATCH’s classroom coordinated kit that includes lesson plans and educational games, as well as ways to exercise in the classroom. The nutrition program focuses on working with the school cafeterias to provide healthier food options and on teaching children the go, slow, whoa food system, which categorizes food items and teaches kids to recognize the health food items. The family program concentrates in communicating with the families of the children and helping them create a healthier environment at home. The physical education component was the aspect of CATCH that our group decided to focus in since our research was on physical …show more content…
One suggestion I would have to be able to provide many more schools with the CATCH programs is to provide flexible pricing options for low-income schools. According to the Flag house’s website, the company that it partnered up with CATCH to sell the CATCH equipment, the middle school PE equipment package for 20 students costs $2,395 before taxes and the activity boxes are $225. For the after school programs equipment package costs $1,995 before taxes and the activity box is $275. There are still additional costs for staff training and extra equipment, such as the classroom curriculum. CATCH’s cost-effectiveness ratio or the intervention costs per quality-adjusted life years (QALY) has be found to be$889.68, essentially costing $68,125 less per person that the estimated present value of future medical and unproductivity costs of a person that is not exposed to CATCH (Brown et al, 2007). The program is proven to work and be cost-effective, however providing payment plans or reduced prices for low0income areas, would allow more schools and after-school programs to implement