Obesity Epidemic

Heightening Awareness and Modifying Health Behavior Assignment – 2 pages Read the required background items and the instructions below. Before you begin this assignment, read through required readings. Specifically, view the video from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011, July 22). The Obesity epidemic. Accessed from https://youtu.be/vCORDl4bqDE For this component of the Assignment, you will describe current environmental strategies, practices, and recommendations to build and promote health. Your task is to submit a paper that responds to the following questions: Describe the problem of obesity in the United States and discuss the role of the built environment in exacerbating such problems. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came out with recommended prevention strategies to address the problem of obesity. Describe three environmental strategies related to food access that were highlighted in the video presentation. Conduct your own literature search and identify two community-level strategies that have been shown to increase physical activity. Be sure to cite your sources to support your perspective. Length: 2–page​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‌‍‍‍‍​s. REQUIRED READING Goldsteen, R., Dwelle, T., & Goldsteen, K. (2014). Introduction to public health (2nd ed.). New York: Springer Publishing Company. Please read: Chapter 6: Public health system performance; and Chapter 8: Building healthy communities. (ATTACHED) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2011, July 22). The Obesity epidemic. Accessed from https://youtu.be/vCORDl4bqDE Moore, M. (2012). The global dimensions of public health preparedness and implications for US action. American Journal of Public Health, 102(6), e1-7. Doi:10.2105/AJP.2011.300644 (ATTACHED) Optional Reading Baum, F., & Fisher, M. (2014). Why behavioural health promotion endures despite its failure to reduce health inequities. Sociology of Health & Illness, 36(2), 213-225. doi:10.1111/1467-9566.12112 (ATTACHED) Kobel, S., Lämmle, C., Wartha, O., Kesztyüs, D., Wirt, T., & Steinacker, J. M. (2017). Effects of a randomised controlled school-based health promotion intervention on obesity related behavioural outcomes of children with migration background. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 19(2), 254-262. doi:10.1007/s10903-016-0460-9 (ATTA​‌‍‍‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌‍‍‌‌‌‍‍‍‍​CHED)