C229 Obesity Prevention:

Community Health and Population-Focused Nursing Field Experience

Childhood Obesity: The Problem A recent google search on childhood obesity rates returns approximately 1.1 million results and searching the same text on the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) produces over three thousand results. Yet, why does it remain a major health initiative for the United States? The logical response to this question only produces more questions. Does the general population understand how childhood obesity is defined, the associated consequences, and why is it an issue in the United States when so much information is available to the general population? According to the CDC in 2016, childhood obesity was defined as a body mass index at or...