Promoting Physical Activities and Preventing Obesity through Healthcare Nurses

4. Darebin’s play spaces offers an atmosphere where kids, adolescents, elder people and people
of all capabilities and upbringings are comfortable to promote physical activities. Council
attempts to deliver land and infrastructures for play inside 500 meters of every single home, to
create safe and sustainable play spaces that are progressive, vibrant and exciting. A broader
range of publicity material, ways and means exist to deliver information for Darebin’s play
spaces, with specific consideration paid to the inclusion of individuals with disability,
linguistically and ethnically diverse communities and young people. They build Partnership with
networks and agencies, key stakeholders to encourage prospects for more than before and
Increase participation rates in sport and physical activities along with continual investment in
infrastructure to raise the involvement in physical activities and sport.
Homework clubs, libraries etc. also provide proper prospects to build knowledge and awareness.
Family and Children Services, Services for old people, Child Health and Maternal services.
Proper Community Services Administration and Regulation also helps in Premature
identification and deterrence of vulnerability to obesity through participation in cultural youth
groups and outdoor sporting events by nurturing a notion of belonging to local community. The
council tries to Provide employment through education and training. Understanding of the people
vulnerable in community, recognizing gaps and necessities in local service, easier accessibility
through better local planning (Evans, Henderson, & Middleton, 2013). Custom-made services for
obese people that meet specific identified requirements. Council is also focused on Lessening of
hurdles to promote involvement of population vulnerable to obesity due to certain societal
circumstances such as Women and girls, Aboriginal community, LGBTIQ people, Older adults
and individuals living with a disability.
It is more effective to prevent obesity rather than to treat obese person. Healthcare nurses such
as Maternal and child health nurses provides better healthcare education to the people and
families, encouraging the way of life and diet essential to avoid obesity (Robinson, Wilson,
Harris, & Laws, 2013). Backing and encouragement by the council; initiatives that help to access
inexpensive food and healthy consumption of food. Healthy foods should be affordable and
should be easily available. A constant activism targeted at all levels of government to raise
substantial aid and emergency relief (Darebin Playspace Society, 2010). The council Encourages
and Supports initiatives that donate to access for healthy eating and inexpensive food. It also
encourages community food enterprises to make contribution of surplus food to council for the
support of two Services/organizations each year to embrace food and nutrition guidelines. There
are significant number healthcare professionals who work as a maternal and child health nurses,
school nurses, occupational health nurses, community health nurses, general practice nurses etc.
in a primary health care setting. Maternal and child health nurses provide a variety of services
like education on child and mother nutrition and breastfeeding, developing proper child raising
skills, immunization etc. through individual sessions, group meetings and house visits, whereas
practice nurses identify possible diet and lifestyle along with causes that lead to obesity and
provide required education to the whole family (Laws, et al., 2015).