Houston Obesity Prevention Health Program Evaluation
Student’s Name
Walden University
PUBH 4100: Evaluating Public Health Programs
Houston Obesity Prevention Health Program Evaluation
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, My health program evaluation will focus on obesity prevention and management among
children in Houston County. There is high prevalence of obesity within growing populations in
Texas. About 16.3 percent of children are obese and 11.3 are very obese. The mentioned statistics
prompts the need for weight management program that would address the issue. The mission for
the program is to ensure that all young people engage health lifestyle such as Yoga, healthy diet,
biking, hiking and other outdoor activities that contributes in weight management. Young people
are presented with environments that encourage weight loss progressively, attain a healthy
weight and maintains healthy project.
The purpose of evaluating the program mentioned above is to reduce obesity among
children in Houston County is to determine its effectiveness (McKenzie et al., 2017). The
mentioned obesity prevention program will involve a new model that increases the collaboration
between healthcare groups and community organizations to improve health at local and state
levels. If the program turns effective, it would help in the implementation of suitable obesity
prevention policies, obesity prevention strategies and promote the development of an effective
environment within Houston communities. There was a perception that addressing individual
child health through population level would lower obesity prevalence, chronic diseases, and
healthcare costs.
Local government, State government, dietarians, fitness instructors, pediatric nurses,
early care educators, community nurses, Wisconsin’s community parents and guardians are
stakeholders involved in the program operation. Secondly, children between 2 to 10 years will be
affected by obesity prevention program. The program’s evaluation results would help CDC,
National Institute of Health, The Institute of Medicine, and The Whitehouse Taskforce on
Childhood Obesity in policy development.
13:02:04 GMT -05:00
Student’s Name
Walden University
PUBH 4100: Evaluating Public Health Programs
Houston Obesity Prevention Health Program Evaluation
13:02:04 GMT -05:00
, My health program evaluation will focus on obesity prevention and management among
children in Houston County. There is high prevalence of obesity within growing populations in
Texas. About 16.3 percent of children are obese and 11.3 are very obese. The mentioned statistics
prompts the need for weight management program that would address the issue. The mission for
the program is to ensure that all young people engage health lifestyle such as Yoga, healthy diet,
biking, hiking and other outdoor activities that contributes in weight management. Young people
are presented with environments that encourage weight loss progressively, attain a healthy
weight and maintains healthy project.
The purpose of evaluating the program mentioned above is to reduce obesity among
children in Houston County is to determine its effectiveness (McKenzie et al., 2017). The
mentioned obesity prevention program will involve a new model that increases the collaboration
between healthcare groups and community organizations to improve health at local and state
levels. If the program turns effective, it would help in the implementation of suitable obesity
prevention policies, obesity prevention strategies and promote the development of an effective
environment within Houston communities. There was a perception that addressing individual
child health through population level would lower obesity prevalence, chronic diseases, and
healthcare costs.
Local government, State government, dietarians, fitness instructors, pediatric nurses,
early care educators, community nurses, Wisconsin’s community parents and guardians are
stakeholders involved in the program operation. Secondly, children between 2 to 10 years will be
affected by obesity prevention program. The program’s evaluation results would help CDC,
National Institute of Health, The Institute of Medicine, and The Whitehouse Taskforce on
Childhood Obesity in policy development.
13:02:04 GMT -05:00
