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The aim of this assignment is to develop your knowledge of important community health nursing concepts, including: the social determinants of health; the impact of health problems on vulnerable community groups, and; the implementation of evidence-based health promotion programs/interventions to address priority community health problems.
This written assignment addresses all three of the course learning outcomes.
Instructions:
Using scholarly literature, you need to write a 1200 word report in which you:
1. Define obesity and outline the different categories of Body Mass Index (BMI) and how each category relates to the level of risk of chronic disease (suggested word count 150 words)
2. Discuss the impact of obesity in Australia on morbidity (illness) and mortality (death) in adults, providing recent information/statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and/or Australian Institute for Health and Welfare (suggested word count 200 words)
3. Explain how education level and family income impact on the risk of obesity, and give relevant Australian examples to illustrate your explanation (suggested word count 350 words)
4. Identify and describe a vulnerable sub-group of people in Australia where rates of obesity are higher than the general Australian population, and provide statistics (%) comparing rates of obesity in the vulnerable sub-group to rates of obesity in the general population (suggested word count 150 words)
5. Access the following full-text research article about a community-based health promotion program/intervention delivered in primary care that includes nurse support:
Little, P., Stuart, B., Hobbs, F. D., Kelly, J., Smith, E. R., Bradbury, K. J., . . . Yardley, L. (2016). An internet-based intervention with brief nurse support to manage obesity in primary care (POWeR+): a pragmatic, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, 4(10), 821-828. doi:10.1016/S2213-8587(16)30099-7
Read and analyse this article and respond to the following (suggested word count 350 words):
a) outline the aim of the study and the study design.
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