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ADDRESSING HEALTHINEQUALITY

Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3Main body........................................................................................................................................3LO1..................................................................................................................................................31.1 Current Public Health issues relevant in UK....................................................................31.2 explanation of uses of population data to highlight health determinants contributing tocurrent public health issues....................................................................................................41.3 Main factors that contribute to public health issues in UK..............................................51.4 Contribution of different factors to the development of obesity and overweight............5LO2..................................................................................................................................................62.1 Different types of interventions used to address obesity and overweight........................6LO3..................................................................................................................................................83.1 strategies aims at reducing incidence of disease in local community .............................83.2 Role of statutory bodies in developing health protection strategies.................................93.3 Effectiveness of health protection strategies in preventing diseases in local community93.4 Critical analyse of effectiveness of different public intervention..................................10LO4................................................................................................................................................104.1 Comparing roles of different healthcare professionals involved in prevention and controlof spread of disease..............................................................................................................104.2 Ways that healthcare professionals promote for infection control.................................114.3 challenges for healthcare professionals in preventing spread of diseases......................114.4 reflecting own role in promoting prevention in spread of disease in local community.11CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTIONPublic health issues are continuously increasing day by day. Government of every nationaims at making agenda and policies to protect health and well-being of society. Governmentallows health professionals to participate in anticipating and eliminating root cause of diseaseand illness. Overweight and obesity is increasing in UK and it is a matter of most common healthissue. Obesity refers to condition where people accumulate so much body fat which bringsnegative effects on their health and body. Person having 20% or more than usual weight sufferswith obesity. Overweight refers to when a person's body mass index is between 25 to 29.9. Inthis study report, determinants of public health issues and their prevalence are discussed.Explanation of different public intervention and national strategies are given in this report.Evaluation of role and challenges of healthcare professional in preventing and controlling spreadof disease. `Main bodyLO11.1 Current Public Health issues relevant in UKPublic health issues is a great point of concern for national government as it has to makevarious rules and policies regarding prevent of these diseases and protecting health and well-being of people(Mistry and Puthussery, 2015). UK is facing overweight and obesity issues inpublic health. Obesity and overweight increases chances of people dying due to hypertension,diabetes, stroke, heart disease, osteoarthritis, sleep apnea and many more. People suffering fromoverweight and obesity faces issues related to dyslipidemia, breast, colon cancer, endometrialand respiratory problems. Causes of overweight and obesity happens due to imbalanced diet and also imbalancebetween consumption of calories and expended calories in individual. Increased use oftechnology makes person lazy and inactive which causes increase in weight of individual andsociety. Diet of society is changing and they intake energy-dense food items that have high fatwhich leads to decrease physical activities as well. Changing and updated transportation modes,increased sedentary nature and forms of work leads to increase number of people suffering fromobesity and overweight.

Government policies aims at safeguarding the rights of public and protects them formillness and diseases. Public Health addresses the root causes of wellness and disease andincludes interacting social environmental, psychological dimensions and biological(Hamilton,Dee and Perry, 2018). It also provides provision of effective health services to public in order toprevent safety of people. Policies of preventing illness and disease relies on grounds ofjudgement and skills that promotes participation of the populations who are themselves thesubject of policy and action. Diabetes and various other diseases affects around 350 millionpeople around the world. Obesity and overweight cases are increasing and has got tripled since1975. Increasing disease rates around world-wide significantly increases chances of developmentof chronic heart diseases and various other problems as well. 1.2 explanation of uses of population data to highlight health determinants contributing to currentpublic health issuesSubstantial consequences are happening to UK health care system due to increased casesof obesity, overweight and various other related issues. The issues of increasing cases of obesityand overweight are complex in nature and also to manage and handle accurately. Obesity iscaused due to combination of various risk factors such as, physical inactivity, dietary patterns,medication uses and various other exposures. Population data refers to combining possible data values of all members for a certaingroup. Population data of UK will include all persons living in the nation. There are variousdeterminants of health which includes the following:social environmentphysical environmenteconomic environmentperson's individual behaviour and characteristicsPopulation data of nation helps in identifying number of people suffering from diseaseswhich needs to be prevented. Population data highlights different health determinants whichcontributes in public health issues(Mistry and Puthussery, 2015). Social determinants of healthincludes unequal access for health care services due to poverty, lack of educations in people,racism due to caste, culture and various other factors, all these contributes to health inequalities.Population data allows various health care centres to identify health issues and bringimprovements in people's living and reducing health inequalities. This health care centres are

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