Reduce obesogenic environments for children: the role of nurse practitioners in community-oriented primary care
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Abstract
The purpose of this project is to conduct a critical examination and synthesis of knowledge in the subject area of obesogenic environments contributing to childhood obesity and how nurse practitioner (NP) practice can reduce these factors. The result is a literature review and position paper that concludes with evidence-informed recommendations on the use of the community-oriented primary care practice (COPC) model that are tailored for use by NPs. The critical examination and synthesis of knowledge is designed to address the following clinically significant question: What is the potential for NPs to foster environments that enable a reduction in childhood obesity for Canadian children under the age of 5, using COPC? Approximately 26% of Canadian children ages 2-17 years old are currently overweight or obese and are likely to remain obese as adults. Childhood obesity is a concern for parents, teachers, health care professionals, and public health organizations because of the associated health problems that develop earlier in childhood and will persist into adulthood. In addition, the impact of adult and childhood obesity, and associated chronic diseases, adds a substantial cost to the Canadian health care system. These are incentives to consider the multiple factors contributing to the obesogenic environment and potential areas of intervention. The COPC model is an excellent way to integrate primary care screening and health promotion with population-based health promotion to help reduce obesogenic environments for children. The model can first be applied during the first 5 years of life, as this is a time where primary care providers can take advantage of the periodic health examination to screen for childhood obesity and offer advise to families on diet, exercise, and screen time. The community-based interventions that are part of the COPC model can be aimed at reducing obesogenic environments. Such interventions are within the scope of practice for primary care providers. This paper argues that NPs are well
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".