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Obesity
Healthy People 2020 and Obesity among children in California
The obesity epidemic has extensive implications for our public health, both as a state and as a nation. Unfortunately, this epidemic is not limited to adults. To the contrary, the number of children in California who are clinically obese has been on a steady rise as well. According to the U.S. Department of Human Health Services, between 1994 and 2010, "the obesity rate among children and adolescents age 2 to 19 increased by 69% from 10.0% to 16.9%."
This trend means that the future generations of California will be increasingly susceptible to hypertension, diabetes, heart disease and stroke. This in turn dictates a negative pattern for our collective public health interests. This is one imperative underlying the Healthy People 2020 website maintained by the United States Department of Health, as well as the associated Healthy People 2020-page maintained by the California Department of Health. The two sites -- and specifically the section focusing on obesity hosted by the federal site -- draw a clear connection between reducing childhood obesity in California and improving the overall public health.
Information Overlap:
The two sites under consideration...
Both are designed to provide information regarding the Healthy People 2020 initiative. The California-maintained website demonstrates this overlap by articulating the mission pursued at the federal level. According to the CDPH, "Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) is a national health agenda that communicates a vision and a strategy for improving the health of the Nation's population and achieving health equity. Each decade since 1980, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released a comprehensive set of national public health objectives known as the Healthy People initiative. The initiative has been grounded in the notion that setting objectives and providing benchmarks to track and monitor progress can motivate, guide, and focus action"
These objectives and benchmarks are, in turn, extrapolated at the site maintained by the U.S. government. And as is demonstrated in the section hereafter, there is a direct connection between this overlap and the aim of overlapping federal and state level agency involvement.
Government Structure:
To this end, the structure of the Healthy People Initiative is specifically designed to allow for a top-down distribution from federal to state and local…
Works Cited:
California Department of Public Health (CDPH). (2012). Healthy People 2020. CDPH.ca.gov.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). (2012). Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity. Healthypeople.gov
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