Promoting Health Literacy for Obesity Prevention among School Students in Urban Area: Nursing Role and Evidence-Based Practice
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Overweight and obesity among children of all ages in Thailand have rapidly high prevalence. Especially for children 6-14 years in urban areas. This problems impact on the health and wellbeing of children and families at now and the future. It also negative impact on economic development of country. The sustainable solutions must focus on develop the ability of people to take care of their own health and promoting of all age groups to gained more health literacy, which were important component in development of Thai Health Care System as has been specified in the 12th National Health Development Plan 2017-2021. Nurses are important personnel in driving the policies and plans. Therefore, nurses should understand the theoretical concepts of health literacy, concepts and processes of evidencebased practice and has competence to search, analyze and assess evidence-based practice of health literacy appropriately for school students in urban areas. More importantly, applying Evidence-based Practice to the role of nurses in promoting health literacy for Obesity Prevention among school students in urban areas. Which can be applied in nursing process in 4 steps (1) Health Literacy Assessment (2) Diagnosis (3) Planning and Intervention (4) Evaluation and revision.
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