Aspects of a contemporary policy related to health promotion and/or public health

   

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Aspects of a contemporary policyrelated to health promotionand/or public health
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3Background.................................................................................................................................3Policy...........................................................................................................................................6Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTIONPublic health defined as boosting healthy lifestyles, to investigate about disease andinjury hindrance, detection and reaction on infectious disease (Weine, Eisenman and Polutnik,2017). Therefore, public health is taken up with aim of providing protection to health of entirepopulation. In this report, the public health issues will be considered as lack of Nutrition, physicalactivity that leads to obesity. In order to overcome the obesity issue, the policy will be consideras “Change for life”. As per the health survey in England, estimate 28.7% of adults in Englandare obese and further 36% are overweight but not obese. Therefore, obesity defined as to havebody mass index of 30 and its above.Obesity is defined as an important issue and also a serious health concern as this isconnected with poor mental health conditions, reduction in quality of life that leading cause ofdeath in UK. Obesity is factor that leads to ill health to an individual. The rate of obesity iscontinually enhancing in children, adults and old age people within United kingdom. Thus, it hasadverse impact on mental health of children. However, this has long term potential consequenceson their educational attainment and lifetime achievement. Furthermore, report will lay emphasise on to provide public health information on issuesas Obesity in UK. Henceforth, background information will be provided on political and policyconnected to issues as obesity. Thus, study will cover that why obesity is a public health issueimpact the health of population. Lastly, report will examine the supporting authority thatsupports public health. BackgroundObesity is serious health concern specially for children living in the UK. Thus, it can bestated that obesity and overweight are two significant health issue for adults across the lifecourse in old age. Thus, excess weight of an individual has varied implication on mental andphysical health of children. However, adults mat faces the risk of various disease that can impacton their physical condition in future. As per the survey of National Health and NutritionExamination surveys the approximately 69% of the adults are overweight or obsese and morethan the 78% adults considered to be obsese ( Beard, Officer, and Thiyagarajan, 2016). From thepast 30 years, the prevalence of childhood obesity has been doubled among the children ages 2 to
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