Family Centered Nursing and NSW Healthy Eating and Active Living Strategy

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FAMILY CENTERED NURSING
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Part 1:
Obesity is one of the most concerning health concerns in the nation of Australia which
had become the main risk factor for the increasing number of chronic disorders in the nation.
Hence, the government of NSW had taken an initiative to prevent the increasing prevalence of
obesity in the state through providing a whole government framework for promoting and
supporting healthy eating as well as active living in the state (Innes-Hughes et al., 2019). It had
helped in making people aware through expressing the statistics of obesity in the nation. In the
year 2011, 52.6% of the NSW adults had been already found to be overweight or obese whereas
in 2010, 22.8% of the children had been found to be already suffering from obesity. Hence, the
main vision set by the NSW Ministry of Health was to introduce the “The NSW Healthy Eating
and Active Living Strategy: Preventing overweight and obesity in New South Wales 2013-2018”
as a whole of government framework for the promotion as well as supporting the healthy eating
and active living in NSW for the reduction of the impact of lifestyle-related factors (Peralta et al.,
2016).
The main target of this policy is the communities of NSW. The policy had mainly aimed
in encouraging the as well as supporting the community for making healthy lifestyle changes not
only at the personal level but also promoted development of an environment that support. The
policy makers focused on creating supporting environments that would support healthier living
through better planning and developing many opportunities in the communities for active living
and initiating different transport solution (Thompson et al., 2015). Obesity is actually the health
condition when the body is seen to accumulate calories which are excessive to the amount of
calories burnt in daily lives. Present day researchers are of the opinion that people in
communities tend to live sedentary lives where most of the time they remain physically inactive

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and hence the amount of calories accumulated are not burnt and gets accumulated in body.
Moreover, intake of calorie dense foods and lack of green vegetables and fruits are the result n
increasing the calorie content of the body. Therefore, in order to control the prevalence of such
health conditions, they had set goals for managing obesity for every cohort of people in the
families. They had been found to set SMART goals with specific targets and even stipulated
timing like reduction of overweight and obesity rates among children by 2015, stabilizing the
rates of obesity and overweight in adults by 2015 (Lloyd et al., 2016). Even they had set goals
like increasing the participation in the sports and recreational activities and different cultural
activities in the regional and rural areas along with doubling the mode share of bicycle trips both
at local and district level by 2016. Similar such specific goals were mainly set to increase the
activity levels of the people on the communities increasing their chances of burning their calories
and living obesity free lives (Kite et al., 2015).
The policy makers had been found to focus on four important strategic directions in
order to provide support environment to the people so that they can adopt active lifestyle choices
and proper healthy behavior that would reduce their chances of developing overweight and
obesity concerns. Their focus would be firstly to develop a supportive environment which would
support healthy eating as well as active living of the members and families of the communities
and also introduce state-wide healthy eating as well as active listening support programs. They
also ensured that advices of healthy eating and active living would be provided as the part of the
routine service delivery for the people in the communities (McKosker et al., 2018). They also
described the importance of education and information among the communities for enabling
informed and healthy choices by the individuals and families in the communities.