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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1METHODOLOGY..........................................................................................................................1Gaps and contradictions in literature .....................................................................................2THEMES..........................................................................................................................................2Theme 1: Impact of obesity on physical and psychological health of an individual and therationale for addressing the issue .........................................................................................2Theme 2: Factors causing obesity .........................................................................................4Theme 3: Stigma associated with obesity .............................................................................5CRAP analysis of literature reviewed ...................................................................................6SERVICE IMPROVEMENT...........................................................................................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION“Public Health” can be termed as a concept aims to reduce particular illness by thecollaboration and inclusion of different governing bodies, organizations and health carers.According toOgden and et.al., (2015), the term public health is used for various health concernsof community and large scale population. It is a broader aspect which includes different healthdelivery systems to gather and apply various health models to improve the quality of servicesand health outcomes of people. The report aims at designing strategies to address a public healthissue so that well being of communities can be improved. Obesity is one of the fastest growing and severe health issue which is oftenunderestimated by the communities. The study will analyse the different aspects of obesity andthe role of health care professionals in providing care services to people suffering from obesity.According to the health statistics provided by NHS in the last 25 years the number of obesepeople in UK has been trebled and by 2015 it created a burden of £6.4bn per year on itsmanagement. This cost has been increasing every year (What are the health risks of obesity?,2014). The report will cover an introduction to selected health issue, health models and policiesthat are designed for it. It will also analyse and review literature sources for identifying themeswhich explains the obesity and the role of nursing staff in providing care services to thevulnerable communities. METHODOLOGYObesity is a wider health issues that is continuously becoming a topic of concern forhealthcare organizations as well as health professionals. Nurses plays a key role in providingassistance and care to obese people. For conducting the analysis different literatures weresearched. Different health statistics and database from NHS, WHO and obesity related healthcare organizations helped to develop a strong foundation for the basic understanding andsignificance of the discussed health issue. The search was focused on literature which includes impact of obesity and strategies toovercome it with the support of nurses. The key search terms include obesity, impact of obesity,role of nurses to overcome obesity and methods to treat obesity. To make search results morerelevant and broad boolean searching techniques were also used. The boolean operators such asAND, OR were used to search the relation between nursing care and obesity. Along with theboolean search, in this study truncation or wild card searching was also used so that sources1
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including variety of word endings related to obesity can be found. It helped to search vast rangeof content for the study.The search was refined some aspects (Locke and et.al., 2015). Forinstance, the obesity statistics were searched particularly within UK context and from the NHS.In order to review the literature in more details articles which were published by healthprofessionals or organizations were preferred. This refining of search term helps to select themost relevant and precise form of literature. Different open source software, research and journal articles were reviewed andcompared to draw systematic themes for the literature review purpose. The databases such asCINAHL and MEDLINE were used to research the literatures related to obesity and role ofprofessionals. After critically reviewing different literature works systematic analysis of all thecollected information was carried in order to identify the themes that emerge from them. Thestudy will discuss the three themes. The first theme will help to understand the impact of obesityon overall well-being of an individual and the significance of the study. The successive themeswill analyse the factors which causes obesity and the stigma's associated with this public healthissue. Gaps and contradictions in literature The earlier literature primarily focuses on limited physical activities as the major cause ofobesity. However, the recent literature also consider the food insecurity equally responsible forthe obesity. The role of nurses and health professional has always been underestimated and isneglected in managing weight. This gap needs further research and study so that improvedquality services can be provided to deal with the issue. The role of weight stigma has been rarelyanalysed and is taken as contradictory concept in obesity interventions in nursing. Its impactmust be evaluated with more systematic approach (Blackburn and et.al., 2015). THEMESTheme 1: Impact of obesity on physical and psychological health of an individual and therationale for addressing the issue According to Brownell and Walsh, (2017), obesity is considered as the major health issuewhich is caused by lower involvement in physical exercises and high intake of calorie. Theadditional weight encourages the risk of several other chronic diseases such as diabetes,cardiovascular and respiratory issues as well as certain types of cancer. Thus when compared tonormal weighed people obese people are more likely to suffer from healthcare concerns.2
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