THE MANAGEMENT OF THE OBESITY FOR COMMUNITY NURSES PRACTITIONER

Abstract

Obesity is an important health problem of population in the community. The causes of obesity were various complex factors, especially food consumption behaviors and less exercise which lead to collecting fat in the body. Obesity has affected on physical, psychological and social health, and leads to the incidences of non-communicable diseases (NCDS), which highly increased such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, dyslipidemia, etc. Health promotion is significant for community nurse practitioner role and manage the obesity in community, focusing on enhancing the potential of population, by giving various activities such as to give knowledge, enhance self-efficacy and motivation, social support, exchange experience, a recording, positive reinforcement and social media, the effective management could help the population with obesity had appropriated food consumption behaviors and physical activity to control body weight into normal level, and  reduce the incidences of NCDS.