Implementation of Chinese Herbal Medicines for Childhood Obesity

Running head: PART C
SOCF311 Foundations of Public Health
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1PART C
Executive summary
Childhood obesity is an illness that exerts a negative consequence on people, owing to the
excess build-up of body fat. Taking into consideration the ever increasing occurrence of
childhood obesity, negative effects of the ailment have been acknowledged as an
intimidating public health concern. The project focused on the strategies that will be adopted
for implementation of Chinese herbal medicines, in the form of a CM treatment modality, with
the aim of decreasing childhood obesity prevalence among 8-12 years aged children in
Adelaide.

2PART C
Table of Contents
1. Background........................................................................................................................ 3
2. Purpose.............................................................................................................................. 5
3. Implementation...................................................................................................................6
Goal.................................................................................................................................... 6
Objectives........................................................................................................................... 7
Strategies........................................................................................................................... 7
Evaluation........................................................................................................................... 8
References............................................................................................................................. 9

3PART C
1. Background
The world is being subjected to a plethora of quick nutritional and epidemiological
transition that are typically characterized by obstinate nutritional deficits, as demonstrated by
the occurrence of anaemia, stunting, zinc, and iron deficiencies (Papas et al., 2016).
Concurrently, recent evidences have also confirmed the presence of a gradual increase in
the prevalence rates of diabetes mellitus, obesity, and nutrition associated chronic diseases
that also comprise of cardiovascular complications, and different types of cancer (Williams et
al., 2015). Obesity has been found to reach an epidemic level in most developing and
developed countries. In addition, maximum prevalence of childhood obesity are observed
amid people of developed countries. Nonetheless, the prevalence rates are rapidly
increasing among developing nations as well. According to Xu and Xue (2016) the condition
is characterised by the accumulation of excess fat in the body that exerts a negative impact
on the wellbeing and health of a child. In addition, children who are found to be obese
manifest body weight, which is higher than normal weight of their age-matched counterparts.
Time and again it has been confirmed that the problem of childhood obesity creates
particular problems owing the fact that the accumulation of extra pounds creates several
impediments in the pathway of attaining optimal health and wellbeing, and increases the
chances of the children of become obese adults as well. Hence, it can be suggested that
childhood obesity is a major public health concern in the 21st century and the problem is
prevalent on a global scale. In addition, the rates of obesity among children are increasing at
an alarming rate in urban settings and there were approximately 42 million overweight and/or
obese children, aged under five years in the year 2010 (Sahoo et al., 2015).
Further evidence for the high prevalence of childhood obesity can be accredited to
the fact that the proportion of obese and overweight young children and infants (aged 0-5
years) demonstrated an increase from 32 million in the year 1990, to 41 million in the year
2016. Moreover, it has been expected that the global prevalence rate of childhood obesity
will increase to an estimated 70 million by the year 2025, thereby establishing the public