Understanding and Acting on the Growing Childhood and Adolescent Weight Crisis: A Role for Social Work

    Authors

    S. Lawrence; R. Hazlett;P. Hightower

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Health Soc. Work

    Keywords

    Institute of Medicine; obesity; overweight; prevention; public health; crisis; SCHOOL-HEALTH POLICIES; PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY; OBESITY PREVENTION; SMOKING-CESSATION; DIABETES-MELLITUS; CHILDREN; OVERWEIGHT; INTERVENTIONS; PERCEPTIONS; BEHAVIORS; Social Work

    Abstract

    The childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity rates are rising at an alarming rate. Numerous individual, family, community, and social factors contribute to overweight and obesity in children and are explored. If left unaddressed, the epidemic of childhood and adolescent overweight and obesity may lead to amplified problems for individual children including acute and chronic physical and psychological complications and for the larger social environment. National efforts by researchers in a myriad of disciplines are underway to address this the issue at the individual, family, and community levels. These efforts include many steps with which social workers should seek to align themselves in terms of their own research and collaborative research and several barriers that hold practice implications for social workers. The importance of social work intervention and collaboration within primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention levels is explored.

    Journal Title

    Health & Social Work

    Volume

    35

    Issue/Number

    2

    Publication Date

    1-1-2010

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    147

    Last Page

    153

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000277762100007

    ISSN

    0360-7283

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