Family Focused Framework

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This paper discusses the comprehensive family, with the focus on the need for full family involvement when treating any one individual family member. The paper continues with a comprehensive nursing diagnosis based on Healthy People 2010 components dealing with obesity and potential interventions associated with the family.

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"In 1988 the Surgeon General of the United States declared "overweight and obesity to be one of the most prevalent diet-related problems in the US" (Koop as cited by Obesity Education, (n.d.)). By the year 2001, obesity was declared an epidemic affecting 64 percent of the adult population and 15 percent of the children in the US (Obesity Education, (n.d.)). Obesity is also one of the top leading health indicators of Healthy People 2010. Complications from obesity range from simple hormone imbalances to lift threatening cardiovascular disease and include increased risk for hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea, impaired lung function, gall bladder disease, osteoarthritis and high cholesterol (Obesity Education, (n.d.)). This paper will focus on issues relating to obesity and the family focused assessment, including nursing diagnoses and intervention opportunities."

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