University Report: Evaluation of Child Food Habits and Health

This report evaluates strategies for promoting healthy eating habits in children, addressing the increasing issue of childhood obesity. It outlines a health promotion strategy, detailing different phases of planning, community engagement, implementation, management, and evaluation. The planning phase involves media involvement, parent education, and restaurant participation. Community engagement focuses on educating children in schools, incentivizing supermarkets for healthier food options, and encouraging physical activities. The implementation phase emphasizes parental guidance on healthy food preparation and school sessions on nutrition. The management phase involves structured planning by stakeholders. Evaluation includes assessing children's weight and food portions before and after the program. The report recommends adjustments based on survey results, referencing relevant studies on health promotion. The assignment is a response to a brief focusing on obesity prevention among Australian children, outlining interventions and health models.

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Health promotion strategy
Different phases of strategy
Planning
There are many ways of planning a health promotion strategy. The media can get involved in this
promotion program and help to implement healthy food habits among the children. Arranging
campaigns for the parents which would make them learn the advantages of feeding their child
healthy can help (Hubley & Copeman, 2018). Preparing posters or hoardings for these purpose
can be of immense help. Restaurants can also lend a helping hand in shaping the health of the
future generation.
The planning and its execution would require near about one month.
The media, parents, restaurant managers and the political parties are the main people who can
implement healthy food habits in the children.
Community engagement
Community should focus on the new generation of children and support eating healthy through a
variety of engagement activities like hospitals, schools, posters, food service venues and many
more. Children must be provided education regarding food habits in their school (Tehrani &
Taghdisi, 2015). The supermarkets can be provided with incentives to implement nutrition based
foods for the children in place of calorie based fast food menus. Community can make the
children engaged in their free time in various indoor or outdoor physical activities which would
include exercises along with basic information regarding healthy eating and its advantages.
It would require three weeks for this activity.

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The community people, local heads are the ones who needs to be engaged in this strategy.
Implementation
The parents can be provided education of the food habits of the children. They can be taught the
process of preparing healthy food and make their children eat those (Martinez et. al., 2017). They
need to guide their children for having fibrous food. The school committee can provide sessions
on healthy eating and the adverse effects of obesity which would make the children aware of
their health. The school canteen can participate by providing children healthy foods.
Implementation of this habits and its effects will require a minimum of three weeks.
The parents, school authority along with the children needs to be cooperative to bring into effect
the health management program.
Management
The school authority, parents, community leaders, media as well as all the people who are
engaged in this activity must have a well structured planning and aware of the advantages and
disadvantages of the program. They should have the required resources and the mentality to
implement the planning on the children.
This would require two weeks for the planning.
Every individual responsible to bring the change in the health of the children must be involved.
Evaluation
The weight of the children under the survey before and after the implementation of the program
should be assessed. This would help to analyze the degree of the program implemented. The

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portion of the food taken by the children in their four meals before and after the program
implementation should be analyzed.
The analysis would take one week.
The people engaged in the process must collect and analyze the information correctly to get best
results.
Recommendations
After analyzing the results of the survey, it would be required to make the necessary changes in
the implementation or management programs as per required.

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References
Hubley, J., & Copeman, J. (2018). Practical health promotion. John Wiley & Sons.
Martinez, C., Bacigalupe, G., Cortada, J. M., Grandes, G., Sanchez, A., Pombo, H., & Bully, P.
(2017). The implementation of health promotion in primary and community care: a
qualitative analysis of the ‘Prescribe Vida Saludable’strategy. BMC family
practice, 18(1), 23.
Tehrani, H., & Taghdisi, M. H. (2015). Community action: a strategy for health
promotion. Iranian Journal of Health Education and Health Promotion, 2(4), 255-259.