Croydon Community Health: Assessing Population Iron Deficiency Report

This report assesses the population health of the Croydon community, focusing on the prevalence of iron deficiency and obesity, particularly among children. The report provides a brief community profile of Croydon, a large borough in South London, and highlights its focus on the wellbeing and health needs of its residents. It examines the community's monitoring and surveillance efforts in partnership with organizations like the NHS, and identifies health issues such as iron deficiency without anemia and obesity. The report then applies population theories, including demographic transition, nutrition transition, and epidemiological transition, to explain and address these health challenges. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of addressing these health issues and the use of population theories to improve the overall health of the Croydon community. The report includes references to public health resources for further information.

ASSESSING POPULATION
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Community council is a kind of voluntary organization which is set up by statute by the
local authority and is run by local residents in order to act on the behalf of their area. These
community councils focus on various aspects that are important to be focused on for the benefit
of their society.
MAIN BODY
Short Community profile:
Croydon community is one of the largest communities in south London. This essay will
lay emphasis on Croydon community which is London’s southern-most borough that
covers an area of 87 square Kilometres. It is second most populous London borough
that focuses on aiming to help public sector organizations and residents better
understand overall profile of the communities living in Croydon.
Long profile of the community
Community focus:
This community focuses on wellbeing and needs of the society. In order to boost
wellbeing and mental health of community they have opened various health centres. But
they are facing various challenges to keep their community people healthy.
Monitoring and surveillance: Deakin, A., 2017. Not just a patient: GP support for carers in
Croydon.
Croydon community has partnership with various organizations such as NHS and
continuously communicates with them in order to monitor health aspects of their resident
people. They continuously monitor and keep a surveillance on their people in order to
understand health issues that are mostly faced by them. In fact, most of the health aspects
that this community focuses on and monitor are for children up to age of 16 or 18.
Health aspects:
According to a recent survey this community is facing various kinds of health problems
due to rapid expansion of the town which is leading or increasing various kinds of health
problems. When investigated it was found that various children are facing iron deficiency
without anaemia. Not only this most of the children below 18 years of age are facing
obesity health problems as well because of which it is becoming a health issue which is
required to be focused on.
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Croydon health services
These changes in health can be explained with the help of various population theories.
Demographic transition is a population theory that focuses on historic change within birth
and death rate in a society. Due to iron deficiency and obesity within children is affecting
overall birth and death rate of Croydon community. Croydon has largest population of
young people and children. Croydon has many healthcare centres and primary care
houses where various healthcare professional focuses on improving overall health of
people. Many healthcare centres within Croydon are focusing on providing routine
healthcare check-ups in order to assess iron deficiency within children and identify how
many children are facing obesity problem. They are also focusing on increasing
awareness among people to bring changes within their diet and daily routine.
Nutrition transition:
Nutrition transition can help them to reduce this iron deficiency and obesity problem
which is faced by younger children. By bringing changes within diet of children can not
only help them to reduce iron deficiency within them but will also help them to enhance
their health and help over weight children to reduce their weight and increase their
quality of life. Using this theory Croydon community is focusing on generating
awareness among people so that they can being changes within their diet. It is one of the
best theories that can help in overcoming both the health issues faced by the residents of
the community to overcome iron deficiency and over weight issues.
epidemiological transition:
Bringing changes within diet can help in increasing epidemiological transition i.e. by
improved diet and innovation in public healthcare can help in increasing or rise in
population growth rate.
CONCLUSION
From the above essay it has been summarized that there are various health aspects that
are faced by residents of Croydon community resident people. It is important for this community
to focus on health issues faced by residents. There are various population theories that are being
used by this community to improve overall health of this community people so that they can live
a quality life.
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REFERENCES
Public health England Croydon. 2019. [Online]. Available thorough: <
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/static-reports/health-profiles/2019/e09000008.html?area-
name=croydon >
Croydon. 2019. [Online]. Available through:<
https://www.croydon.gov.uk/democracy/dande/policies/health/annual-public-health-report>.
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