Delivering Health Promotion Interventions

DELIVERING HEALTH
PROMOTION
INTERVENTIONS

RATIONALE/ BACKGROUND/
INTRODUCTION
Introduction
 Health is one of the most important factors for
an individual that can directly impact their
wellness and their overall quality of life.
 There are various kinds of health promotion
and public issues which is impact overall
health of people in UK as well as in other
countries.
 Drugs is one of the main and serious health
issues whose consumption is increasing year
by year.
 Drugs impact both physical and mental health
of people in a drastic manner.

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Rationale and Background
 Use of drugs is a serous public health issue because it can result in degradation of
physical and mental health of an individual and can result in development of many
other health issues among people.
 Drugs is one of the main reasons because of which most of the mental health issues
exist.
 Not only this, this issue is important to be focused upon because various cases have
been identified in which due to drugs overdose or excessive misuse of drugs death of an
individual has been reported.it is one of the main reason because of which health
promotion intervention of drugs in UK is required to be developed so that misuse of
drugs in UK can be reduced and its effect on both physical and mental health can also
be reduced

NEEDS ASSESSMENT
 Need assessment of drug health issue clearly helps in understanding that there are gaps
within current service provision, proper training is required to be provided to health and
social care institutes so that they can proper accurate treatment to patients with drug
health issue.
 As per the need assessment it has been identified that there are various kinds of
treatment programs that have been developed that provide effective treatment to people
who comes forward for treatment for drug misuse so that their mental and physical
health can be improved.
 But there are no programs that targets upon generating awareness among people so that
people become aware of negative health impacts of using drug upon health so that
people themselves start taking initiatives of reducing excessive usage of drugs. This can
directly help in dealing with drugs public health issue.