Community health promotion plan

7% with this being statistics collected between 2014 and 2016 (Rogers Park, 2018). Hypertension is also another common health issue that is faced by the citizens of this regions. Imbalanced nutrition more than body requirements related to socioeconomic status, food intake that exceeds body needs as evidenced by observed dysfunctional eating pattern, numerous fast food restaurants, insufficient produce markets, and people with observable overweight and obese population. Deficient knowledge related to inadequate knowledge on adult obesity as evidence by unhealthy eating habits, lack of physical activity, obesity and sedentary lifestyle. Chicago has had a long history of food and nutrition-related health problem for an extended period. This plan thus will formulate measures that should be taken to reduce overweight and obesity among young children to be able to make a lower obesity rate at the adulthood stage of the incoming generations.

Overweight is mainly caused by unbalancing of nutrition with people taking more than what their bodies need. Majority of the children are consuming foods that extend what their bodies are in need of. Also, the dysfunctional eating pattern has been observed among this generation. Technology has limited the amount of time that students spend exercising both in school and at home as well. The ministry of education in Chicago should ensure that each CPS has a playing ground that students should spend their time exercising during their break time. Some schools have limited resources for physical exercise classes for their students, and this has led to the idleness of the students after their classes. This thus has limited the chances of children to get rid of the extra energy in their bodies.

Accumulation of unused energy in children has thus led to overweight and obesity among young children. It is therefore upon the ministry of education to ensure that all schools have the necessary Physical education resources that will provide that each student has access to physical activities while in school. It is upon parents to be responsible for their children and control the amount of time that they spend on screen. This program is highly sustainable since it is easy to implement. RN is likely to come up with this program to a child who is addicted to spending a lot of time on TV and smartphone as a way of creating time for such a child to spending in other activities that will ensure that he or she is physically fit.

This is of benefit to the community in that it is likely to create a time of children to interact with one another thus bringing about cohesiveness in the community while at the same time reducing cases of obesity among children. It is also a cheap program that can be enhanced by each parent. By doing this, a majority of the members of the public are likely to benefit from this. It is upon the ministry of health to finance for this. RN is expected to utilize this strategy when the majority of the members of the society become victims of obesity, and they want to ensure that majority of the members of the society gain awareness concerning the effect of obesity and how they can reduce their chances of conducting it.

This also is likely to be of significant advantage to the society as many members of the society are likely to gain awareness and measures of the way that they can use to avoid obesity. Evaluation It will be essential to come up with a way of evaluating the effectiveness of the above strategies with time. Overall, obesity medication should be covered by health insurance coverage to make sure that obese patients can obtain the necessary medication with easiness. When adults are provided with health foods, their chances of becoming obese is likely to go down. Opening up of farmers’ market is likely to be of great importance to the members of the society as it is likely to provide the society with health foods.

Consumption of foods that are unhealthy to the patients is the main reason why the majority of the adult members of the society are suffering from obesity. This also is likely to be a better way for those adults who are already suffering from obesity to access quality foodstuffs that they can depend on to improve their health conditions. The government also has implemented programs in the hospital that support breastfeeding among young children as one of the ways of reducing obesity among young newborns. The government has also allocated more than $800000 to ten different community-based organizations that are addressing issues to do with obesity-related disparities in the society (Tung et al. These organizations are working in various sectors. Three of the organizations are working towards increasing health options in corners stores, three of them are supporting breastfeeding education, while four of them are working towards implementation of healthy changes in schools.