Assessment task 2: Planning, implementation and evaluation of a non-communicable disease prevention initiative This assignment uses a suburban state primary school as a setting for the prevention of...

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    This assignment uses a suburban state primary school as a setting for the prevention of overweight and obesity. The task involves an extensive whole-of-school initiative that targets specific stakeholder groups usually associated with a school (pupils, teachers, families, community). Students will work as Public Health Officers working for the state Department of Health on the planning, implementation and evaluation of this intervention. Students will identify how this new initiative will be deployed, what resources, support and incentives will be required and what concerns and/or barriers the initiative may encounter. Students will also develop information for the stakeholder groups and other communication strategies, and outline an evaluation strategy. Importantly, a direct link between the intervention design and risk reduction in the target group must be demonstrated.


    Submission will comprise the following (approximate distributions of word count):


     Demographic characteristics of the specific school and surrounding community (600 words)


     Etiology and epidemiology of overweight and obesity in the target group (700 words)


     Justification of stakeholder group selection (200 words)


     Description of the intervention (700 words)


     Outline of the communication strategy (300 words)


     Outline of the evaluation framework (500 words)




    Due date:Friday day 12th October 2018 11.59pm AEST



    Weighting:50%



    Length and/or format:3000 words





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Sourav Kumar answered on Oct 09 2020
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Demographic characteristics of the specific school and surrounding community    3
Etiology and epidemiology of overweight and obesity in the target group (500 words)    4
Justification of stakeholder group selection    5
Description of the intervention    6
Outline of the communication strategy    7
Outline of the evaluation framework    8
References    10
Demographic characteristics of the specific school and surrounding community
The chosen school for the study is Ashmore State School. This school is located in As
hmore, situated in the City of Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. This city offers a wide variety in their community. Different facilities and networks in the community work to being the people together. Social interaction and active lifestyle is supported and encouraged in the communities around this school in Ashmore. It is a suburb of the south Eastern, Hinterland and Gold Coast in Queensland. It is located at a distance of 67 kilometres from Queensland’s capital city of Brisbane (Sullivan et al. 2015). Demographic factors includes different characteristics of the population of a place. This includes the number of inhabitants, gender information, data relating to income and occupation, marital status, education, etc. Demographic factors are responsible for the lifestyle the people of a place are living and this lifestyle affects obesity rates. Healthy, happy and active lifestyle keeps away obesity.
The community programs in the city aim at increasing positive local connections. They work to decrease social isolation by facilitating strong sense of identity, belonging and pride. The state of Ashmore has recorded to have a population of 11,586 people in 2011 census. It consists of 52.2% female and 47.5% males. Ashmore has a median age of 40 that is 3 years more than the national median age, 37. Around 65.7% of the Ashmore population were born in Australia. The population also consists of people from other countries, it has 9.2% from New Zealand, 1.1% from Japan, 4.9% from England, 0.7% from Scotland and 0.7% from Republic of Korea (Rozbroj, Lyons & Lucke, 2018). Most of the people in the population speak English at home and next to that the most common languages are Japanese (1.5%), Korean (0.6%), Greek (0.6%), German (0.6%), and Mandarin (0.5%).
The religious composition of Ashmore is made up of 24.2% Catholic, 21.4% who do not belong to any religion, 20% of Anglican, 10.3% whose religious affiliation are not stated, 5.5% of Uniting Church, 2.9% Christians, 3.6% of Presbyterian and Reformed, 1.9% of Buddhism, 2% of Lutheran and Eastern Orthodox of 1.5%. Marital status of the population in Ashmore is 46% of married people, 33.1% of people who have never married along with 3.1% of separated people and 10.2% of divorcees. Ashmore has around 720 widowed people.
The main occupation category of people living in Ashmore falls under Professionals that consists of 18.2% of the whole population. Technicians and trades workers constitute 15.7% of the population, with 15% by the Clerical and administrative workers. There are 12.5% of Sales worker, 10.2% of Community and personal services, 9.8% of Labourers, 11.4% of Managers, 4.7% of Machinery occupations, 1.8% have not described their occupation adequately or have not stated it. The important industries where the people of Ashmore work are Retail trade (12.2%), Health care and social assistance (12%), Accommodation and food services (9.6%), Construction (10.7%), Education and training (8%), Manufacturing (6.8%), Professional, Scientific and technical services (6.7%), Public safety and administration (4.2%) and other services (4.1%) (Ho et al. 2018). Most of the homes in the communities of Ashmore are in the process of being bought through home loan mortgage, that is 37.8%, 31.3% of the homes are owned fully and 26.2% of the homes are on rents.
Etiology and epidemiology of overweight and obesity in the target group (500 words)
Childhood obesity had become the main health problem in children of the developed nations and results in many physical, psychological and social problems. It may give rise to diseases like cardiovascular dysfunction, type 2 diabetes, complications in hepatic, renal, pulmonary and musculoskeletal aspects.
Ashmore in Queensland is a state in the continent of Australia and as a result in increased number of overweight children in Australia, Ashmore had too been effected. One child out of every four children is overweight or obese. In a report of 2014-2015, it was seen that 27% of the school going children were overweight or obese. Among them 20% were overweight but not obese and 7% were obese (Ng et al. 2014). Gender however, had no effect on obesity. Causes of Obesity among the children in the school includes:
1. Food choices- Consuming foods with high fat content or sugary foods instead of healthy foods.
2. Lack of physical activities - Most of the children are not very active.
3. Sedentary pursuits- Australian children spend watch around 2.5 hours of a day watching television or playing games, on average. These have been replacing physical activities.
4. Overweight parents or genetics- Eating patterns within a family affects the child's weight significantly. Some overweight parents are less concerned about their children's weight or eating habits than parents with healthy weights (Hesketh et al. 2005). Genes also play a part in obesity. Some genes can make a child more prone to obesity
5. Societal factors- Different changes in the contemporary society has also contributed to the increase of obese children. Price of food has gone down, fast food joints have become popular, use of car has increased, role of physical education has reduced, and etc. falls...
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