Patchwork Test Assessment about Obesity

Patchwork Test Assessment
about Obesity

Contents
Patch 1: Rationale............................................................................................................................3
Patch 2: Application of the bio-medical approach to obesity..........................................................4
Patch 3: Application of bio-psycho-social approach to obesity......................................................6
Patch 4: Evaluation of your view.....................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

Patch 1: Rationale
Obesity refers to a disease that involves excessive amount of body fat and this is a
complex medical problem. Increases risk of a person for getting other diseases and health
problems such as heart disease diabetes high blood pressure and certain types of cancers.
Individual with obesity body make enough insulin however cells in the body become resistant to
actions that are taken by insulin and this is why individuals develop diabetes (Abdelaal, le Roux
and Docherty (2017). Individuals who are obese require more blood for supplying oxygen and
nutrients to their bodies and this causes increase in pressure of blood high blood pressure is a
very common cause for heart attack and this is why obesity can also create risk of heart or
cardiovascular disease.
Obesity is generally caused by eating too much and moving to little and when individual
consumes high amount of energy such as fat and sugar but when they do not burn their energy
through physical activity it causes obesity. This is because excessive energy consumed by
individual is stored in body as fat. Excessive weight or obesity contributes to several problems in
daily life of individual such as it can distribute to joint and back problem which can create
difficulty in movement. Along with this people with obesity also suffer from loss of muscle mass
because of which their muscles become weaker. Difficulty in and lack of mobility can create
several problems for individual in carrying out basic daily activities including climbing stairs,
cleaning the house and self management. Daily activities of individual include several activities
in which individuals are required to frequently move and carry out activities however because of
obesity their capability to frequently move can reduce (Dixon and Peters, (2018). Obesity also
causes social problem for the individual in which individuals with obesity are more prone to
being bullied humiliated and ostracized. Obesity alsoaffectself esteem of individuals because
they are likely to get discriminated and also have issues with body image because they are more
likely to consider themselves different from people around them. This reduces their confidence
in social situations that they are not able to perform and reduced to confidence and self-esteem
also create situation like anxiety and stress which is not good for psychological and mental
health of individuals. Individuals in such situation also become suitable to depression and
depression is a significant mental illness.
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Health risks of obesity are very serious in which individual is likely to get health
problems that can be life threatening for individuals. This means that obesity can create
psychological social as well as significant health difficulties for individual and because of this it
is very important to care about obesity and focus on issues of obesity.Increasing obesity rate is
also a reason that obesity should be care about and adequate actions are taken to prevent and
reduce obesity. Obesity required to be cared about because all the diseases having possibility for
mortality of individual can be caused by obesity (Seravalle and Grassi, (2017). In addition to
this, obesity can make significant negative impact on quality of life and this is why at individual
as well as social level, it is important problem to be cared and considered.
Patch 2: Application of the bio-medical approach to obesity
How is obesity defined?
As per bio medical approach, obesity is defined as energy imbalance that is driven by
behaviour of individual where in energy intake is more than energy expenditure. The main
reason of obesity is improper diet, lack of exercise, etc. This leads to obesity in people. There are
a lot of people who are suffering from obesity in world.
According to biomedical what causes obesity
It has been found that there are many bio medical reason due to which obesity is caused.
Here, there are several diseases for it such as hypothyroidism, insulin resistance, polycystic
ovary syndrome. Thus, these all diseases led to obesity in person. Moreover, cushing of
syndrome also result in obesity. Therefore, these are main causes of obesity as per bio medical.
According to biomedical how health professional view obesity and patient
In this it can be stated that health professionals view obesity and patient in same way but
there are some difference in it. Here, they view obesity as imbalance between energy intake and
expenditure. Thus, they try to find out that what is change in behaviour of individual. Besides
that, they view patient on basis of genetics (Abdelaal, le Roux and Docherty (2017).The health
professional try to identify if there is change in genetics or not. Along with that, behavioural
change is also evaluated in patient. Basically, obesity is viewed as change in behaviour is context
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