Introduction It has been Seen that the Aboriginal People

Introduction
It has been seen that the Aboriginal people are the remote and unprivileged people of Australia who are generally form the lower economic group of population. This population has been seen in lower number and
affected with different disease as the health care access and the health literacy both are lower among these people (Cave, Shepherd, Cooper, & Zubrick, 2019). Moreover, the factor of the cultural belief of these
people are the factors that affected the health outcome of the people. Based on this context, it can be found that the obesity is one of the major symptoms found among these people (Salmon et al., 2019). However,
among the children of the community the obesity and overweight are in a high rate. 20 per cent children in the age group of 2 to 14 years are overweight and 10 per cent obese (Abs.gov.au, 2013). Hence, it can be
stated that the negative situation should be reduced as this can develop several co-morbidities among these children (Sherriff et al., 2019). Hence, the health promotion for reducing the consequences would be
required with higher priority.Childhood obesity: Aboriginal Torres Strait Island population
Childhood obesity: Aboriginal Torres Strait Island population
.
Action Plan
The health promotion plan will be developed with the
consideration of education development among the people.
Hence, the action plan for the program is as follows:
• Target people selection through data collection and
observation (Jennings, Paul, Little, Olson & Johnson-Jennings,
2020).
• Interaction with the people with lower amount of literacy
about obesity (Kagie, Lin, Hussain & Thompson, 2019).
• Providing healthy diet knowledge to people and children
(Kenney et al., 2019; Gillies et al., 2020).
• Implementing healthy shopping and healthy food marking for
the children to let them understand the effective food values
and proper diet maintenance (Dias et al., 2016).
• Moreover, physical activity training for the weight reduction
also implemented.
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Role of Nurses
The community nurses are the primary care givers to the community
people. Thus, the nurses are responsible for developing the plan of
care and also participate in the health promotion plan actively. The
factor of the health promotion should be planned with the
consideration of negative impact of the obesity and the causes of the
obesity. It has been seen that lack of health care access, lack of health
literacy, socio-economic imbalance, cultural beliefs and many other
factors are related to the development of the disease and subsequently
other health issues related to this disease (Anderson, Lyons, Luke &
Reich, 2017). Hence, the nurses are to collect data, advocate the
issues, communicate, empower the people about the effectiveness of
the physical fitness and proper diet maintenance (Waters et al., 2018).
The nurse is also the personnel who informs the health data of a
community to the department of health.
Health Promotion Plan
The situation is needed to be considered with priority. Thus, the
government and the health care professionals should develop the
health promotion plan for the people. It has been seen that the lack of
knowledge and the health literacy is the primary cause of the
development of the disease. The cultural beliefs also affect the
healthy living behaviours (Titmuss, Davis, Brown & Maple‐Brown,
2019). Thus, it can also be stated that the health promotion program
should focus on the individual and community based care and
education development processes (Hardy, MacNiven, Esgin &
Mihrshahi, 2019). On the other hand, the health promotion process
should focus on the healthy behaviour development among the
children of the Aboriginal community (O’Hara, Taylor & Barnes,
2016). Hence, it can be stated that the health promotion strategy
should focus on the development of the individual and community
children as well (Cave, Cooper, Zubrick & Shepherd, 2019).