Public Health: Obesity and Health Promotion

This presentation discusses the impact of obesity on public health and the effectiveness of health promotion campaigns. It explores the roles of nurse practitioners and the health promotion model for obesity prevention.

Public Health

Table of Content
 Summary
 Introduction
 Health need and effectiveness of interventions
 Roles of nurse practitioners
 Health promotion model
 Conclusion and recommendations

Summary
Public health refers to a science of securing as well as improving health
condition of people and their respective communities. It is necessary
to make effective health promotion campaigns for increasing
knowledge level of people to take precaution in regular routine to
remaining disease free. It is observed that obesity is become a major
issues among correct adult people due to which other disease may
develop like high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol etc.

Introduction
Obesity is a condition when a person has extra fat on their body which
is beyond the condition of being overweight. It includes different
reasons behind occurrence of obesity including excess sitting hours,
sedentary behaviour, lack of using sports, limited physical activities,
malnutrition and many more (Sanchez-Vaznaugh and et. al., 2019).
Meanwhile, it is observed that obese condition is acquired by an
individual due to having diet with high oily foods and junk food.

Identify health need among prior community
and effectiveness of public health
interventions
Public health can be considered as an important aspect to determine a
specific health problem which becomes common among people. It
includes the identify specific health problem to formulate more
effective as well as efficient health promotion campaign for increasing
awareness among citizens (Binks and Chin, 2017). In context of this
project, the health problem of obesity among adults according to
specific strategies should be established for encouraging them for
improving health condition of them.

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The strategies of maintaining public health
• The government is required to focus on entire healthcare system of
the country for increasing its effectiveness to fulfil healthcare
needs of every citizen (Davies, 2019).
• It includes the criterion of government to provide access to
advanced and innovative technologies to healthcare organisations
for delivering better quality of care.

The implications /impact of public health
policy (obesity) on community nursing
practice
Public health policy related to obesity includes establishing effective health
promotion campaign for improving awareness among people to
maintaining their normal health condition. It includes the health policy of
obesity impact positively on community nursing practice for enhancing
patient outcomes.

Roles of nurse practitioners to promote
health and protect adults at risk of
obesity
The promotion of health is an important responsibility of nurses in
order to reduce risk of occurring obesity among adults. It includes
the important role of care professionals for formulation and
organising more effective as well as efficient health promotion
campaign for improving health condition (Alston and Okrent, 2017).
Basically, it includes the criterion of providing information related
to effective strategies among people to encourage healthy habits
which are favourable to improve better health condition.

Professional responsibilities according to
the NMC code
The nursing staff is required to formulate an effective health promotion
program for facilitating healthy habits among the people of the
community for improving their better health status (Alston and Okrent,
2017). It is necessary for care professionals to follow all the ethical
principles and codes of conduct in order to provide appropriate medical
services.

Health promotion model to be used for
obesity
Health promotion model is an important
framework which is favourable to improve
the condition people by encouraging
health habits among them. It is helpful for
care professionals to formulate more
effective as well as efficient health
promotion campaigns related to obesity
which will provide support to improve
lifestyle of people that facilitate to
enhance the health of people.

Conclusion and recommendations
From the above project, it has been concluded that health promotion is
very important to be organised on obesity which is helpful to
increase healthy living among people. It includes the roles of
nursing staff to follow NMC codes and other important aspects
while providing relevant information for enhancing the health status
of people.

References
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California “Smart Snacks” policy on obesity: Does it vary across
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Binks, M. and Chin, S.H., 2017. What are the challenges in developing
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Obesity, 41(6), pp.849-852.
Davies, R., 2019. William Dietz: shaping science and policy on
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Baker, P., 2017. Fat nation: The rise and fall of obesity on the political
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