Obesity Swot Analysis

SWOT Analysis
By utilizing the SWOT analysis tool, it helped me to have a better foresight of awareness of what the preventive obesity initiative strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats entail to know what direction to better utilize strategies to approach the initiative in order to have a successful outcome. It is estimated that over 145,800 residents in Somerset County are obese (Healthier Somerset, 2012-2015). Aware of the obesity epidemic, Somerset County, with its internal areas of strength, created the task force, “Healthier You and Healthier Families” to work together as a team with community leaders, schools and healthcare organizations to initiate better diets at schools, provide educational obesity workshops, and recreation

Also, with the increase of farmer’s markets in Somerset County selling fruits and vegetables at affordable prices and use of vouchers, it can help reduce the high cost of paying grocery store prices to purchase healthy foods (Shaping NJ Community Pilots, September 15, 2015). To reduce the effect of mass local media advertising, fast food restaurants, and local stores selling sugary snacks, Somerset County can implement a tax on unhealthy food local advertisement, increase taxes on fast food restaurants, and owners of local stores in the community, and utilize the tax profits to fund more vouchers to help those in need of purchasing healthy groceries. In addition, with the idea of Influencing grocery stores franchises to sell reduced cost, affordable healthy foods to its residents in Somerset County, franchise of grocery stores taxes can be reduced for selling cheaper, affordable healthy foods to the

The preventive obesity initiative pilot program will be evaluated monthly for its results of approval of the program with feedback from surveys from community members on their progress in weight management through educational workshops of obesity, healthy diets, increased physical activity, and availability of affordable foods. The results of the success of the preventive obesity initiative pilot program will be determined based on monitoring, observation, evaluations, and community member’s satisfaction and progress, as staff members work hard together as a team to combat obesity.
The Six Sigma tools will be utilized to evaluate the preventive obesity initiative pilot program to identify the steps of processes for continuous improvement with the use of information from two focus groups to gain feedback to measure the performance of the overall pilot program and its effect of preventing obesity in the community of Somerset County (United States Environment Protection Agency, June 23,