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Introduction:In health promotion, people enable to take over and improve health. Obesity is a complexdisease and it can impact physical mental and social well being of the person. Hence, healthpromotion is important aspect of obesity control and prevention. In this essay, role of nurse infive strategies identified in Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (WHO, Health and WelfareCanada & CPHA, 1986) will be discussed. Building healthy policy:Obesity crisis can be effectively controlled by increasing public support for strong publicpolicies. It can be helpful in the healthy choices easy. Government need to play significantpart in making policies for obesity control and prevention and nurse need to implement thispolicy. Public health policies can be helpful in eliminating hurdles for prevention of obesityby improving diets of the people and reducing risk of obesity. Health policies need to focuson the toxic food environments. Healthy policy can be helpful in improving involvement ofall the stakeholders including nurses in addressing crises of obesity prevalence (Loureiro andFreudenberg, 2012). Through public policy, political, economic and practical problemsrelated to obesity control can be effectively controlled. Health policy can be helpful inproviding obesity control interventions for all the classes of people irrespective ofsocioeconomic, geographical and educational consideration. Nurse should make sure thathealthy policy is being implemented uniformly. Addressing health issue like obesity is notresponsibility of individual; however multiple stakeholders need to be involved in it (Thomasand Reilly, 2015). Obesity is a complex disease and its control can be achieved by providingintervention in different aspects like physical, nutritional, social and psychological. Hence,professionals from different discipline like health, social, nutrition and psychology need to beinvolved in control of obesity. Involvement of multiple stakeholders can be effectivelyachieved by implementing effective and well-designed health policy. Nurse should improveaccessibility of all these stakeholders to the people. Few of the examples of health policies forobesity include launching campaign for involving physical activity in daily life, providinghealthy food at schools and launching public awareness programme for risk factors of obesityand preventive measures to control these risk factors (Cleland et al., 2013). Nurse need totake active participation in all these activities. 2

Create supportive environment:Socio-ecological approach for obesity health promotion can be effectively achieved byimproving relationship between people and their environment. Supportive environment canbe created by implementing policies and regulations for consumption of safe food to controlobesity. In school canteen and offices healthy food need to be provided. There should be banon the high energy foods and carbonated drinks at thee places. Financial incentive need to beprovided for sponsoring the events like healthy food campaign (Raine, et al. 2012). Nurseneed to identify all these aspects and should make efforts to implement it. Nurse need toprovide education to the people in the disadvantaged society about the benefits of healthyfood consumption, optimum physical activity and consumption of alcohol and tobacco whichare the risk factors of obesity. There should be improvements in the access of equitablesupportive healthy environment without considering conflicting interests in the society. Nurseneed to improve access of health care services for people in the disadvantaged society(Allender et a., 2012). All the members of the society need to be involved in the preventionand control of obesity. These members include healthcare professionals including, familymembers, community members, nutrition expert and physical trainer. Nurse need to createhealth supportive environments at the healthcare centres and workplaces. At healthcarecentres, supportive environment can be created by making waiting rooms friendlier,improving access to water and making seating places comfortable. At workplace, supportiveenvironment can be created by implementing stress management programmes, assistingemployees for quitting smoking and providing healthy snack options in the vendingmachines. Environment to change behaviour towards healthy life need to be created (Blanckand Kim, 2012). Strengthen community action :Public health nutrition community-based activities can be helpful to strengthen communityaction. Community based activities include implementation of good nutrition policies,providing healthy eating classes for people prone to obesity and providing healthy eatingadvice through different media like television. Most effective community-based activity inparticular geographic area can be implemented by evaluating its usefulness in that particulararea because different community-based programmes can be with varied effectiveness indifferent areas (Bazos, et al., 2013). Issues related to public health in particular area need tocollected from the nurses and intervention need to be provided based on the needs and3

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