Global Health and Sustainability Briefing Paper

This briefing paper discusses the global health and sustainability issues, specifically focusing on the problem of obesity. It covers the background, current status, key considerations, and recommendations to enhance well-being across the world. The report highlights the impact of socio-economic factors on obesity and the need for sustainable pathways to attain increased well-being.

Global Health and Sustainability

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
ISSUE.....................................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND....................................................................................................................4
CURRENT STATUS.............................................................................................................6
KEY CONSIDERATIONS....................................................................................................8
OPTIONS...............................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION/ RECOMMENDATIONS...................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
The concept of global well-being is generally defined as an area for research as well as
practice which generally places a priority on developing the well-being as well as can attaining
the well-being equity for every people across worldwide. The global well-being of the people is
generally concentrated on the people across nation instead of concerning on particular nations.
Global well-being and sustainability can plays an essential part in providing enhanced well-being
for all people through applying the sustainable pathways which can make values as well as can
attain the increase well-being across the community. This report will cover the illness of obesity
that is a global well-being problem across the nation. It is a particular problem that creates a
negative impact over the population and this must be taken in consideration to fight against this
particular global well-being problem in sustainable pathway which can mirror an enhanced
development without any big destruction. In this report, there is a discussion about several
problems or the purpose of the topic along with key considerations of trends. There is also some
background of the global well-being problems along with its actual condition. In this report,
there is a about the key considerations which specifically involves the trends, the consideration
of data, the improvements and so on. It can involve few other options also that contains the
observation about the key consideration along with its illustration. There are included some
recommendations towards the authorities of the government which can specifically allows the
government agencies to care and by following can attain the increased well-being across the
nation (An, Ji and Zhang, 2018).
MAIN BODY
The global well-being is utilized instead of global public well-being in order to avoid the
perception that the endeavours are particularly concentrated only on classical as well as
nationally based the actions of the public well-being. The global well-being can grow on the
national public well-being efforts as well as the institutions (Basaza, Kinegyere, Mutatina and
Sewankambo, 2018).
ISSUE
The purpose of doing this report is to protect the population across the world from
obesity. The main aim to develop the report is to identify the issues which causes the obesity
among people and can effectively able to enhance the well-being of the people across world.

BACKGROUND
In this, obesity is generally a major global well-being concern as well as an issue towards
the surrounding environment. In this, obesity can specifically contribute to a major chronic
condition such as the cardiovascular illness, hypertensions, stroke, the type 2 diabetes,
respiration illness, depression and many more. It is a public health issue across worldwide with
the elevated prevalence as well as the incidences, high costs and the reduced results. As an
illness with the defined the complications in pathologic as well as the pathophysiologic. The
influence of an obesity on the quality of the life can began to be appreciated and recorded as well
in the eighteenth century, but only in the central of the nineteenth century it was determined as a
cause of ill well-being. It is then only in the first decades of its twentieth century were its morbid
complications as well as the enhanced mortality documented. It is more like the other harmful
illness such as the cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory disorders and so on. These
particular illness has been come forth as the curse of the man kind over the same period of time,
obesity is a chronic illness. As a chronic illness, an inactive onset of its complications such as
hypertension, diabetes as well as atherosclerosis can account for its mortality and the morbidity.
Unlike the other severe illnesses, it is not a silent killer illness, but one whose external evident
are generally evident towards afflicted people from its outset as the gaining of weight and the
elevated girth (Brodie and et. al., 2018).
As a public well-being concern, therefore, this can externally evident the illness as it is
the one which is quite easy to detect that particularly enables for potentially considerable time to
forbid its complications. Obesity is been generally determined as it is a determinant of the
obesity which contains a reduced level of activities and can consumes the elevated amount of
calories. It particularly creates a global well-being influence of the socio-economic status. In this,
it consists a toxic surrounding environment as well as can impact over the lifestyles of the human
beings which are generally incompatible with the other evolutionary improvements. It is
specifically refers to a certain availability where the primary environmental determinant of an
obesity can create intake of elevated calories food as well as a reduced activity which can
consume a low fat. It is generally the end which can involve the hypothesis in the scientific
community. In general, obesity is particularly refers to driven the largely by various
environmental factors which can contains the junk food, elevated calorie food, increased energy,
the consumption of fast food products and many more (Caputo and Reichert, 2020).

These particular are the several reasons to cause obesity among the populations, where one of the
basic reason is to updating of the increased calorie food products as well as consumption of the
low level activities. It can specifically creates an accumulation of the fats among the people and
can creates the cause of obesity. It is particularly a common global concern which drastically
creates a negative impact over the population across nation. In context with world health
organization, there are approximately about 2 billion of the adults who are generally overweight
and are considered in the category of obese people whose Basal Metabolic Index is more than
30kg per metre square. It generally gives that there are approximately about 40% of the females
and about 39% of the males are getting obese in the very young age that is 18 years and above.
In this, there is a fundamental reason of obesity which specifically refers to an imbalance of
energy among the calories consumed as well as can expand the calories globally. It generally
creates a major concern of well-being among the population where UK is one of the country who
is generally facing the issues regarding well-being majorly. In this, there are elevated amount of
consumption of energy that are particularly high in sugar and fat. It is due to not performing the
various physical activities and this particularly can creates an enhancement in the inactive nature
of the working from increased urbanization and the modes of the transportation (Danivska,
Heywood, Christersson, Zhang and Nenonen, 2019).
In addition to this, there is requirement to use the sustainable mode of the transportation
such as bicycle that is quite effective and can also enable the people to perform the vigorous
physical activities as well as consumption of the energy together. By acquiring the sustainability,
it can be quite effective to perform the several different exercises which can ultimately reduces
the developing risk of obesity among the large population. It can also performs as well as an
improve the physical activities which can aid to perform various different physical activities at a
time period and can allows the people to enlarge their calories more or less equal to be consumed
the calories. In this, the elevated cost of the healthcare is generally one of the very most
significant economic challenges which are specifically faced by various states across the nation.
These particular costs can impacts over the economic conditions among population. The social
stigmatization and discrimination as well in the employment as well as the academic situations
can reduces the possibility that a person will make the behaviour of people, decisions which can
promote a healthy lifestyle. In this, there are already the programs which are specifically place
into an area to prevent as well as effectively decrease the cause of obesity but the higher

authorities cannot displace the needle alone. The people are generally required to make the very
personal decisions which can effectively modify their lifestyle for the prevalence of obesity to
decline. In this, there is an application of the models named as health belief models that is
basically a tool which is used to predict the behaviours of the health among people. The model is
particularly based on the theory about the ability of the person's willingness to modify in the
behaviours of well-being to improve the health. There are various types of the health belief
models that particularly involves the perceived benefits, perceived susceptibility, the perceived
barriers, cues of action, perceived severity as well as the self efficacy (Dehlin, Jacobsson and
Roddy, 2020).
Perceived benefits: It generally refers to an individual's perception about an effectiveness
of the action to decrease the developing risk of an illness and can attain a better well being.
Perceived susceptibility: It is a particular type of health belief model in which the people
are generally able to adopt the risk of ill health of obesity that generally gives the feelings of
getting obese which is a personal vulnerability to an illness.
Perceived barriers: In this, there are various other obstacles that can come where one of
the obstacle is for people is to take care about the healthy diet and to decrease and minimize the
unhealthy food.
Perceived severity: This is a particular step in which an individual get the feeling of
getting ill health through obesity. It is the stage which includes various feelings of severity and it
should be consider in the way to get rid of it. In this, the people can think about the consequences
as well as it is related with obesity to itself and for their family members also (Doran, Jones,
Arshad and Gilley, 2018).
CURRENT STATUS
The demographic trends as well as the conditions among the lives of the people which
generally have a large impact on the capability to maintain a healthy weight. It is determined that
about more than a one person can earn less likely they are to have the obesity. The people who
are having the less education were also more likely to have the illness of obesity. In this, the rural
communities generally includes the higher rates of the obesity as well as the severe obesity in
comparison with the suburban as well as metro areas. The socio-economic factors like the
poverty as well as the discrimination have specifically contributes towards the elevated rates of
the obesity between various ethnic as well as the racial populations. The black adults generally

contains the highest levels of the adult obesity that is particularly nationally at 49.6% which rates
are generally driven in the very large part by the adults obesity rates between the black females
of about 56.9 %. it is generally contributes to major chronic conditions like the cardiovascular
illness, the hypertension, diabetes, depression and many other illness. Obesity is generally a
major public health issue among both the internationally and across the world. Being obese is
particularly connected with an increased risk of various common illness and can also cause the
premature deaths including the diabetes, the cardiovascular illnesses and so on. The risk of
having a poor health is particularly related with the mass index of the human body. In addition to
this, the evidences generally depicts about the obesity which is specifically associated with the
enhanced risk of deaths from other infections and so on. Recently, the government has generally
launched a campaign encouraging the people to reduce the weight and can effectively tackling
with the leading cause of obesity to enhance the health in order to make the people to live their
life better or healthier (El Bilali, 2019).
Furthermore, concerning about the impacts of the obesity which generally has taken on
the very new dimensions in the year as consisting the leading cause of obesity is specifically one
of the underlying well-being issues that are linked with the very most serious consequences of
the contamination or infection including the deaths in the care organizations. Such particular
information generally means that about 42% of all the people living in the United Kingdom are
particularly at enhanced risk of serious, possibly fatal, the well-being influences from the
infection due to their weight as well as the conditions that are particularly associated with the
obesity (Finer, Garnett and Bruun, 2020).
The discussion in the current report is specifically based on the evaluation that is generally
a part of the recently released news data from the various centres for the control as well as
prevention of the illness behavioural risk components for surveillance systems and the analysis
of the TFAH that gives an annual picture of the leading cause of the obesity across worldwide. It
is generally become a very serious disease or a well-being consequence consisting the increased
risk for the illness of diabetes, enhanced blood pressure, the heart related illness and many other
diseases. The cause of obesity is generally estimated to improve the national health care
spending approximately about $149 billion and being overweight is quite similar reason among
the young adult that are particularly ineligible for the care services. The report specifically
highlights the levels of the obesity which are usually tied more closely to the social and the

economic situations and that the people containing the decreased income are more prone to the
developing risk.
KEY CONSIDERATIONS
In this, the public problems is generally viewed by using the sociological imagination,
expressing about how the society can modify in having the less time to spend at the homes as
well as the convenience unhealthy increased in fat foods. It can aid the people to lead the country
to indulge in the bad behaviours which can lead to obesity. In this, there are young adults who
are generally one of the major target who generally get the risk of obesity among them. The
community is greatly effective to get the risk of obesity among them due to several reasons such
as eating junk food as well as the unhealthy lifestyle. In this, due to the lack of funding as well as
the discrimination there are various people who are particularly not getting much better
information as well as the education that influences their lifestyle and an uptake of the nutritional
food components which can be more effective for the better well-being. This can ultimately
decrease the leading cause of the obesity. It is about the first determination about the obesity is
generally taking place on the epidemic proportion with very little restrictions on the availability
of the food. It particularly refers to the prevalence of the obese people along with the obesity
over the very last 50 years. In the very present times, the people who are having more than 30
basal metabolic index rates are generally considered as obese. There is a particular trend which
depicts that the obese people are approximately about 31% over the period as well as the
prevalence of about 55% among the population across nation. There are several risk factors on
the obesity which generally creates an independent influences on the risks. To intercommunicate
with other people obesity grows when the energy become imbalance are generally among the
consumed calories and the calories which are expended. The imbalance of the energy is
generally a result of an economic as well as the social modifications level among the control of
visual and single as well. It can greatly impact on the economic growth inexpensive as well as of
a nutrition food raising of the availability of abundant machinist, the transportation, organization
as well as an industrialization. It can particularly occurs among elevated income countries since
the very 20th century and till today (Haidar and et. al., 2018).
In this, the hereditary factors which involves the racial differences, history, family as well
as the genetic with specific social culture as well as the socio-economic which impact on the
developing risk of obesity. It includes the several risk factors that can involves the people's

reduced physical activity, particular substance abuse, the various psychological conditions,
various other illnesses and so on. In this, the socio-economic factors can effectively enhance the
poverty as well as the reduced levels of education that can impact over the obesity among the
expanded population. Due to poverty, it involves an uncontrollable nutritional diet that enhances
to the bad well-being as well as can effectively influences on the people's health that generally
creates the social economic risk factors of obesity. Due to the reduced levels of educations, there
are very less information about the intake of the healthy as well as good food component. In this,
there are also an environmental factor that have the lack of an access towards the physical
activity in the social ties, desserts that can ultimately leads to the reason of obesity. Obesity is
generally involve the elevated impacts of obesity on the global well-being that are generally
caused due to various reasons. In general, obesity is specifically caused by the consuming more
calories as well as some specific sugar content and the fatty food components that are generally
not burn through the physical activities and can create the excess energy that are specifically
stored in the body in terms of fats. In addition to this, the working environment are specifically
related with the developing risk of obesity. When the working environment is good and can
include some physical activities, then there are greater possibility of losing the elevated calories
and getting better physical well-being but during the working environment are particularly not
effective and there is specifically less consumption of energy. In this, then due to the gathering of
the high energy as a fat, this cam further creates the risk of obesity as well as the elevated impact
on their physical well-being that is specifically a global well-being concern (Khan and et. al.,
2021).
OPTIONS
It has been observed that there is various key consideration which are effective and have
high impact on the individual and large population in order to reduce the risk of obesity within
large population. There is need to reduce eating behaviour and should control over it which can
have high impact in reducing the risk of getting obese. It has been also observed that there is
need to control and maintain the average BMI that can allow to get and maintain average health.
Hereditary factor is also important in causing the obesity within large population. this is the one
when there is family history or genetic cause can enhance the risk of obesity within individual.
Through controlling the nutritional diet can influence the better physical health and reduce the
risk of obesity. It has also observed that food availability is also an important issue which leads

to impact obesity within large population. There is also impact of quality food which can impact
individual health and lead to create the risk of obesity within large population. It has been
observed that there is need to serve more vegetable and green food which can have high impact
in attaining good health. In this, there is need to ensure that having healthy diet can avoid the risk
of getting fat and obese (Mahaffy and et. al., 2019).
There are different pros and cons of obesity prevention which have high impact on
individual that can lead to create high impact on large population. this can also cause global
impact on global health. UK is suffering from large cases of obesity within country which can
impact the global health. In this, there are different cases of obesity which can lead to create
impact on the healthcare. In this, there is need to influence people that can help to get better
health and reduce the risk of getting obese. This is important and needs to get better impact
which is effective and plays an important role in delivering of effective care about health. In this,
through maintaining proper diet can people can control their health and lead to improve their
health. Through using the prevention plan, large population is able to get better health and can
have ability to reduce the risk of getting obese. In this, there is need to create awareness about
the benefits of good health and how to attain good health and to reduce the risk of getting obese.
In this, there is need to promote the healthy diet consumption and ensure about providing
information about good health (Song and et. al., 2018).
There is need to aware about consumption of less bad fat and should consume good fat.
This is effective and enable individual and large population ensure about their healthy diet that
can be manage through using balance diet. To gain better health, there is need to take care about
the good calories and that should not be processed along with sugary. Through this UK
population can effectively maintain their issue of getting obese in higher scale. This can provide
better outcome and lead to get better impact on individual and large population that can impact
the global health. People should ensure to avoid the consumption of more processes food or junk
food which have large amount of calories and fat that can create the result of getting obese
within globe. Fibrous food can be effective and allow individual to reduce the risk of getting fat
and help to decrease the fat within individual. This is an effective method and preventive method
that is effective and allow people to get better result and reduce the risk of getting obese. Aerobic
activity can be effective and allow population to take control on their health. Through using
aerobic activity, individual can allow to get better health. This is highly effective and allow

individual to decrease the fat within individual and large population (Noy, Patrick, Capetola and
McBurnie, 2017).
CONCLUSION/ RECOMMENDATIONS
From the above discussion, it can be concluding that obesity is one of the global health
concern which is highly effective and have high impact on global health. This is a major health
issue which should be resolved for get better health. There are different consequences of getting
obesity that can influence the risk of obesity within large population. This can lead to create
influence the risk of getting different health issues. Obesity can influence the risk of different
risk which can be lead to reduce by preventing measure like intake of healthy food, increasing
physical activity, exercise and other work. This can allow to decrease the risk of obesity. There is
need to impact on individual health which includes the uptake of food. In this, there is discussion
about different cause of obesity within large population which are related with the global health.
There is also discussion about the new trends, key consideration and important factor of getting
obese which have high impact on the global health.

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