Community Health Project, Part 2-Framework and Intervention Plan



Community Health Project, Part 2—Framework and Intervention Plan

Introduction

Many Adults and Children have to suffer with the problem of unhealthy nutrition. There is empirical evidence that health promotion programs are required bring awareness about physical activity and to promote it. Such programs will also emphasize the need to eat healthy in order to prevent problems of getting overweight and obese. It is the dire need of time to critically analyze findings and suggestions from previous researches carried out. This will require documents to be reviewed and as a result, new interventions can be formed that prove to be effective. The current prevailing interventions can be improved where the improvisation is required. This Intervention Plan and framework will be based on dealing with the issue of unhealthy nutrition in children and adults (Brug et. al, 2005).

Need of Theory

Nothing is more important than indentifying and implementing a good theory in order to devise a solution to the problem. In order to improve behavioral nutrition and interventions of physical activity, the theories pertaining to the matter need to be studied first. The importance of this fact is pointed out by the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA) and pushed for a debate on theory. According to Jeffery, by initiating debate through sharing of experiences and opinion on applying theories to control weight and interventions for weight loss, people could focus on what is actually viable rather than models of social cognition that do not hold much practical relevance. He supported his statement by saying that he could not gather much data from his own experiments that following such theories enhanced the interventions in terms of effectiveness (Brug et. al, 2005).

In the rapidly changing world of today, people give importance to freedom of choice and exercising independence while making decisions. That is why what we consume, eat and the amount of exercise that we carry out are assumed to be a component of freedom of choice. Therefore it means that people are able to decide how much they want to eat and whether they want to exercise or not. Other than a few exceptions like small children who cannot decide on their own what they want to eat, physical activity (PA) and diet behaviors cannot be influenced by anyone. If people are not going to listen to the ones who care for them and will not take their advice, they are likely to resort to eating habits that will not provide them with healthy nutrition (French & Worsley, 2004).

What people decide to eat is subjective to a set of determinants of PA behaviors and nutrition, comprising of various cognitive elements and environmental factors. The environmental factors include availability of food and accessibility to it.

Therefore, theory to change behavior needs to be constructed. The theory needs to incorporate systematic approach, weight to the desired factors and analysis of results derived from empirical studies that are related to nutrition patterns of physical ...