Competency
Analyze the influence of cultural, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors
on public health.
Scenario
As a public health nurse at a community clinic, your supervisor has
asked you to research and examine childhood obesity in the community.
You have been asked to create a visual concept map to be shared
during a staff meeting to illustrate your findings on the cultural,
socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that are contributing to childhood
obesity as well as determining how the community clinic can promote
healthy behaviors to address childhood obesity.
Instructions
Create a visual concept map on child obesity and the factors influencing
childhood obesity that:
● Identifies a specific community to research and provides statistical
data on childhood obesity in the selected community.
● Analyzes the cultural, socioeconomic, and behavioral factors that
influence childhood obesity.
● Illustrates the connection between childhood obesity, behavior,
culture, and socioeconomic status.
● Describes how the promotion of health behaviors will help to
reduce and ultimately eliminate childhood obesity.
● Explains ways the public health nurse can support healthy
behaviors while responding to the diverse needs in the community.
● Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for
credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar
in the visual concept map.

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