Professional Health Competencies

Running head: CHILD OBESITY
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PART 1: SEARCH STRATEGY
What are some questions you have about the condition (that can help direct your
search)?
What are the factors leading to child obesity?
What are the consequences of child obesity?
List your search terms, synonyms and/or alternate terms used to create the search.
Consider synonyms for the diagnosis, the age group (if relevant) and what you want to
find with your search.
Child obesity, prevention, causes, cures
I want to understand the causes, consequences, steps that can be taken to reduce the
childhood obesity.
How did you carry out your search? Specify your search terms, including the words you
truncated, the terms you entered as a phrase and how you used Boolean operators (OR
& AND) to connect search terms for the search.
Child obesity AND causes
Child obesity AND treatment
Which Library database, search engines or websites did you search in for each

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publication?
1. Journal article: Google Scholar
2. Government report: Government website
3. Book/book chapter: Google books
4. Additional publication: Google scholar
Searches can yield thousands of results. How did you narrow and/or refine your search
(i.e. what were your limiters)? What were the key criteria that helped you decide
between one source and another?
Relevance of the resource
As per the date of publication
Journals
PART 2: ANNOTATIONS
Journal article citation
Sahoo, K., Sahoo, B., Choudhury, A. K., Sofi, N. Y., Kumar, R., & Bhadoria, A. S. (2015).
Childhood obesity: causes and consequences. Journal of family medicine and primary
care, 4(2), 187.
Journal article annotation (summary and evaluation) (180 words)
The article discusses about the causes and the consequences of child obesity. Childhood
obesity is continuously increasing and reached great levels in developed nation’s and also
developing nations. Moreover childhood obesity has a major impact on both psychological and
physical health of a child. Moreover there is common tendency of the obese children
remaining obese even when they reach their adulthood and therefore they become more
vulnerable to communicable disease such as cardiovascular diseases and diabetes at a young
age. There are numerous reasons behind child obesity. Some of these reasons includes-
lifestyle preferences of a child, environmental factors, and also the cultural environment plays
a major role in developing child obesity. Some of the most common reasons of overweight and
child obesity includes increased amount of sugar intake and also calories. It has also been
understood from the paper, that the rates of child obesity is continually increasing because of
increased sugar intake in form of soft drinks, decline in the physical activity and also due to
increasing portion sizes. Moreover it has been seen that childhood obesity leads to negative