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This 30 page paper looks at the problem, causes and treatment of obesity. The paper starts with an introduction, defines what is meant by obesity and discusses the influences on obesity, including genetic, environmental and behavioural influences. The paper discusses the conditions that result from, or that are aggravated by, obesity, including diabetes and coronary heart failure. The paper then goes on to look at the way obesity can be treated and the models of change which can help to frame treatment approaches, including the Tannahill Model as well as the approach of Prochaska and Diclemente. The discussion in the paper includes policies and approaches seen in the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS) and UK obesity statistics .The bibliography cites 34 sources.
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References 30 1. Introduction Obesity is an increasing problem. The health service appears to have two
dominant approaches; the prevention of obesity and treatment of children to prevent the problems carrying into adulthood, and the dealing with the problem of obesity as the health issues accompanying
the condition arises. The is a great deal of rhetoric regarding the treatment of obesity within the NHS (NICE, 2006; NHS Alliance, 2005), but the reality appears to indicate a
lack of proactive care for cases of obesity where there is not an immediate health concerns (Koppleman, 2000). With obesity generally being
interpreted as a self inflicted condition and a large number of financial pressures placed on a public funded service the bias of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions
which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable. However, there is a problem with this approach. The failure to deal with the problem of obesity is creating future problems
due to the long term health implications. Lew (1985) points out that it can take up to ten years of obesity before negative health impacts are felt. This means that
there is a lag in the conditions as well as the associated costs. The short term pressures and attitude to obesity is one that could increased costs over the next
decade substantially, it has even been argued that over the longer term the problems of illness associated with obesity have the potential of bankrupting the National Health Service (Medical News
Today, 2007) If the pattern is to treat the young, and then to treat and direct resources at adults who are showing
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