Public Health Concern of Obesity in London: Initiatives and Interventions

This essay discusses the prevalence of obesity in children and young adults in London, its impact on the economy, and the need for initiatives and interventions to address it. It includes a critical examination of health policies and the effectiveness of interventions, with a focus on health promotion theory. The essay also explores the various factors that contribute to obesity, such as genetics, behaviour, and psychology.

NC503 Public Health in Action

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Obesity refers to abnormal or excessive fat which are accumulated within children and
young adult and can lead to create some risk of health. This is the one which can lead to create
an impact on the individual weight where BMI plays an important role in identifying the
individual health related concern. Obesity is highly effective in children and young people which
causes due to getting taking extra calories than required. This is the one which can lead to create
high impact on children and young people. This is the one which can lead to create an impact
due to intake of extra calories which accumulate as a fat within individual. There are different
issues which can be created due to obesity which care related with development of different
diseases. In this, there is need to ensure about the better health which can lead to create negative
impact on children and young adults. In this essay, there is discussion about the public health
concern within London where obesity is one of the main concerns within country. In this, there
are different health related policy that can have high impact on the critical examination and
related health policy. It also includes the application of public health concern and its impact on
economy. This essay includes the initiatives and interventions which can address or manage
public health concern with critical discussion that includes the health promotion theory. There is
also discussion about the effectiveness of interventions and its impact on the children’s health
challenges (Azzarito, 2019).
MAIN BODY
There is large number of cases of obesity within UK which create the public health concern
and enable public health issues within country. In this, there is large number of populations
which get affected through the obesity. In this, there are large number of children and young
people who get affected through obesity within London. There is prevalence of obesity about
20% which includes 14.4 million children within country. There is so much burden on the
children forms the lower income family or background which have the higher rates of obesity
within them. This is getting worse within time and need to take some action to control and
decrease the rising cases within children. In this, there is need to take some initiative that can
allow to provide some reduction in the number of cases of children with obesity. This also have
high impact on the country economy and create burden on the healthcare. In this, there are many
children and young adults who need better treatment and other practices which can be effective
and allow to decrease the number of cases of obesity within children and young adults. In this, to

control the increasing cases of obesity within children need to decrease where government need
to make some policy which can be effective and allow to take control over it. In this, there is
need to ensure about the effective care that allow to provide better impact on the delivery of
policy that can help to reduce the cases of increase obesity within children (Brady, Forkan and
Moran, 2018).
It has been detected that there are several key reflections that are quite effective as well as
have great influence on the individual and large population as well to decrease the developing
risk of obesity among broad population. There is highly requirement to decrease the eating
behaviours and it must control over that can have specific great influence in decreasing the
elevated risk of the people who are getting obese. It has been also detected that there is highly
requirement to control as well as maintain the average Basal Metabolic Index which specifically
enable to get and can effectively able to maintain the average well-being. There are Hereditary
factor also which are particularly crucial in causing the leading cause of obesity among the large
population. This is particularly the one when there is family history or genetic reason which can
enhance the developing risk of obesity in between individual. By regulatory the nutritional diet
that can influence the better physical well-being as well as can effectively able to reduce the risk
of obesity. It has also been observed that the availability of the food component is also an
essential problem that particularly leads to impact over leading cause of obesity in between the
large population. There is also involves an impact of quality food that usually can influence the
health of the people as well as can lead to create the developing risk of obesity among the large
population across nation (Lankinen, Fröjd, Marttunen and Kaltiala-Heino, 2018).
It has been pragmatic that there is required to serve more vegetable and the green foods
which can have great influence in attaining the improved health. In this, there is required to
ensure that having the healthy diet can effectively avoid the risk of getting fat and obese. There
are various different benefits as well as the disadvantages of obesity prevention that specifically
involves an increased influence over the people which can lead to create the increased influence
among the large population. This can also cause the global impact over the global well-being. In
this, UK is suffering from very large cases of the developing cause of obesity in between the
country that can influence the well-being of the global. In this, there are various different cases
of developing cause of obesity that can lead to create the impact on the particular healthcare. In
this, there is need to influence people that can help to get better health and reduce the risk of

getting obese. This is important and requirements to get better impacts that is quite effective as
well as can plays a necessary role in delivering an effective care about the well-being. In this,
through sustaining the proper diet people can effectively control their health and can effectively
lead to enhance their well-being. By using the prevention plan, the very large population is able
to get the better well-being and can have capability to decrease the developing risk of getting
obese. In this, it is required to create an alertness about the profits of good healthiness. It can also
involve about how to conquer the good health as well as to decrease the risk of getting obese. In
this, it is highly required to promote the consumption of healthy diet as well as ensuring about
providing the information towards better health. There is necessity to cognizant about the
consumption of a smaller amount bad fat and it should be used up a good fat. This is effective as
well as can allow the people and the large population ensures about the healthy diet which can be
managed through using the specific balance diet (Mathieu‐Bolh, 2021).
To gain the better well-being, there is requirement to take care about the good calories as
well as that must not be managed along with sugary. Through this, the population of the UK can
effectively maintain their problems of getting obese in very higher scales. This can provide the
better outcomes and can lead to get enhanced impact on individual and the large population
which can impact the global health. People must ensure to evade the consumption of more
processed food components or the junk food that particularly contains the large number of
calories and fat which can create the result of getting obese in between the globe. In this, the
Fibrous food can be quite effective and can allow the people to decrease the developing risk of
getting fat and can aid the people to decrease the fat among population. It is an effective method
as well as a preventive method which is quite effective and can allow the people to get better
outcomes as well as decreases the risk of getting obese. In this, an aerobic activity can be
effective and can enable the population to take control over their health. By using aerobic
activity, individual can able to get better health. It is specifically containing high effective and
enable individuals to reduce the fat among individual and the large population (Conroy, Smith
and Frethey-Bentham, 2018).
In this, the genetic, behavioural as well as the various psychological as well as the factors
can play an important role in the aetiology of the leading cause of the obesity. While there has
been no single cause has been attributed towards the obesity, it is more likely that each of the
detailed theories can all specifically contributes towards the state of the obesity. In this, the

model generally posits that the genetic as well as the social environmental factors can
specifically promotes the leading cause of the obesity through their independent can particularly
impacts on the intermediary variables of the behavioural. These specific intermediary phenotypes
can induce a very positive balance of the energy that is quite greater intake of the energy than the
expenditure, when sustained can promotes the obesity (Cook and Tseng, 2019).
CONCLUSION
The obesity is generally not only the issue across the nation but it can become a health
concern in the various regions of the world. The connected or linked effects of the obesity on the
type 2 diabetes, the cardio vascular illnesses, cancer and many more are specifically providing an
increase in the economic costs of the obesity. The total annual medical expenditure cost for the
various countries has been estimated to be approximately about 5–7% of total well-being care
costs or approximately about 75 billion dollars a year. Thus, the need for preventative techniques
and the provided care has never been superior. Historically, obesity has been thought to simply
be related to an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure. However, more recent
research has recommended that genetic, physiological, and behavioural factors also play a
specific role in the aetiology of obesity. There have been many pathways to treat as well as
prevent the leading cause of obesity. Currently, the market is been flooded with the weight loss
substances abuse, the procedures, and the fad diets. However, eating a proper healthy diet as well
as maintaining a relatively energetic lifestyle is particularly the most effective means to avoid as
well as treat the elevated cause of obesity. There is also a strong requirement for the long-term
weight maintenance studies. The study generally concentrates on the short-term weight loss, but
not maintaining the loss of weight.

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