Adult Obesity: Identifying the Problem, Investigating the Issue, and Providing Solutions

Running head: LEADERSHIP AND PROFESSIONAL IMAGE
Adult obesity
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Table of Contents
A. written proposal.....................................................................................................................2
1. Identify a problem or issue related to the population.............................................................2
a. Applicability of the issue in the health care environment...............................................2
2. Investigation of the problem or issue.................................................................................2
a. Evidence supporting the problem................................................................................3
3. Current data........................................................................................................................4
a. Factors contributing to the problem............................................................................4
4. Solution for this problem...................................................................................................5
a. Justify of the solution..................................................................................................5
5. Recommend resources to implement the solution.............................................................5
a. Cost-benefit analysis...................................................................................................6
6. Timeline for implementation..............................................................................................7
7. Key stakeholders and/or appropriate partners....................................................................7
a. Importance of the Key stakeholder..............................................................................7
b. Engagement with the key stakeholders....................................................................8
c. Work with those key stakeholders...............................................................................8
8. Implementation of the solution..........................................................................................8
a. Implementation can be successful...............................................................................9
B. Fulfilling the following roles:-..............................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11

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A. written proposal
1. Identify a problem or issue related to the population
The issue identified is Adult obesity in the population. Adult obesity is a complicated
health concern, which mainly results as of a mixture of basis and contributing features, which
includes aspect like behavior and genetics (Brisbois, Farmer & McCargar, 2012). According
to WHO, obesity is an abnormal or unnecessary fat accumulation in the body of an individual
that may negatively affect the health of that person. One of the most important concepts in
obesity is the BMI, which is an index that indicates the balance of the weight-for-height of an
individual. This index is commonly used to classify overweight and obesity in adults. In
2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years and older, were overweight. Of these over 650
million were obese (Who.int, 2018).
WHO defines overweight and obesity among the adults as:
 BMI greater than or equal to 25 is overweight
 BMI greater than or equal to 30 is obesity
BMI provides the most useful population-level measure of overweight and obesity as
it is the same for both sexes and for all ages of adults. Nevertheless, BMI is not a concrete
framework rather it is a guideline, as it may not match up to the same degree of fat content in
different individuals.
However, as per behaviors it can include the patterns of diet adult follows, physical
activities, in-activities, medication used as well as other revelations. Moreover, rest of the
contributing features in the society includes the food and physical movement environment,

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learning as well as skills along with food advertisements and promotion. Several major health
issues have been reported due to obesity. Usually the practitioner informs patients who are
identified of being overweight that they have to control their weight as it may lead to obesity.
The cause of obesity and overweight is the imbalance in between consuming and expending
of energy. Increased intake of food that is high in calories and fats as well as physical
inactivity due to the increasingly sedentary nature of many forms of work, changing modes of
transportation, and increasing urbanization are some of the cause obesity.
a. Applicability of the issue in the health care environment
Adult obesity is applicable to the area of population and the healthcare environment
becomes a wide-reaching problem affecting rich as well as poor. However, as per the current
global estimates around 500 million individuals fall in the adult obese category (Goacher,
Lambert & Moffatt, 2012). Obesity is considered to be a severe distress because it is
connected with unfortunate mental wellbeing effect, diminish the value of life as well as it is
one of the major causes of death in US and universally involving diabetes, heart disease,
strokes even few types of cancer. Therefore, obesity usually takes place when people
consume too many calories and lessen any kind of physical activity.
2. Investigation of the problem or issue
The issue of Adult obesity is discussed with the help of the information that can be
gathered from hospital records, journals current data from the magazines and newspapers as
well as registered and governmental websites. As per the investigations, more than one-third
of the residents of US are suffering from obesity (Zukiewicz-Sobczak et al., 2014).
Moreover, investigation further suggests that the estimated medical cost of the obese adults is
higher in comparison to those with normal weight. Moreover, an important issue leading
people towards obesity is Globalization because of these worlds become more affluent.