Annatoted Bibliography
Student Name: Samwel NIYUKURI
Student number: n8283613
Unit name: Contemporary Public Health
Unit coordinator: Dr Marguerite (Margo) Sendall
Tutor: Dr Jeong-ah Kim
Title: Assessment 1: Annotated bibliography
Word Count: 1,516
Queensland Health. (2001). Towards Health Growth and Development: Issues of overweight, Obese and Under-nutrition among children in Queensland. Retrieve March 18th, 2011 from http://www.health.qld.gov.au/publications/infocirc/11229.pdf
This article presents and overview on two major issues related to child health. Firstly, it focuses on childhood obesity then the emerging issue of overweight becoming critical public health problem as in many industrialised countries of the world today. The author’s intention is to raise awareness on skyrocketing of obesity among children in Australia manly focused in the state of Queensland. The author is highly concern with the increasing cases of obesity in children because he believes that “monitoring early childhood growth and development should be the ‘gold standard’ for measuring the success of human development efforts.
He persuade that overweight and obesity are crises facing not only Australians, but in many of the industrialised countries of the world today. The author presents used results from a survey that was conducted in Australia to support his arguments, and from collected data we can see how serious this issue is with 19% to 24% of school-age children overweight or obese. He insists that actions need to be taken now to prevent and manage both overweight and poor growth amongst children of the state and the country. The author supports this claim with statistics ideas by comparing Australia with United States and five other countries. Although is an interested article, it mainly describes causes of childhood obesity than discuss discussing options for prevention. However, the author’s made a very important point that “effort to both prevention and manage over-and under-nutrition
Student number: n8283613
Unit name: Contemporary Public Health
Unit coordinator: Dr Marguerite (Margo) Sendall
Tutor: Dr Jeong-ah Kim
Title: Assessment 1: Annotated bibliography
Word Count: 1,516
Queensland Health. (2001). Towards Health Growth and Development: Issues of overweight, Obese and Under-nutrition among children in Queensland. Retrieve March 18th, 2011 from http://www.health.qld.gov.au/publications/infocirc/11229.pdf
This article presents and overview on two major issues related to child health. Firstly, it focuses on childhood obesity then the emerging issue of overweight becoming critical public health problem as in many industrialised countries of the world today. The author’s intention is to raise awareness on skyrocketing of obesity among children in Australia manly focused in the state of Queensland. The author is highly concern with the increasing cases of obesity in children because he believes that “monitoring early childhood growth and development should be the ‘gold standard’ for measuring the success of human development efforts.
He persuade that overweight and obesity are crises facing not only Australians, but in many of the industrialised countries of the world today. The author presents used results from a survey that was conducted in Australia to support his arguments, and from collected data we can see how serious this issue is with 19% to 24% of school-age children overweight or obese. He insists that actions need to be taken now to prevent and manage both overweight and poor growth amongst children of the state and the country. The author supports this claim with statistics ideas by comparing Australia with United States and five other countries. Although is an interested article, it mainly describes causes of childhood obesity than discuss discussing options for prevention. However, the author’s made a very important point that “effort to both prevention and manage over-and under-nutrition