Health Advancement and Promotion: Assignment

Running head: Health Advancement and Promotion
Health Advancement and Promotion

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Executive Summary
Chronic diseases such as Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) and diabetes account for a
quarter of the diseases in Australia. Around two-thirds of people die because of these diseases.
These diseases are the risk factors and occur due to overweight, obesity, high blood pressure and
physical inactivity. This research is aimed at introducing a public intervention which sets the
goals and objectives, planning strategies for accomplishing these goals and identification of the
means to evaluate the objectives for the prevention of CVD in Australia .
It also aims at justifying the importance of the health outcome of this intervention. The
budget for the proposed intervention is $200 K for one year and it would be completed within 3
years. The aims and objectives for the research proposal are to create an awareness amongst the
people of Australia regarding the prevention of CVD. It is also conducted with the intention of
providing the evidence and information of interest to the service planners, policymakers and
researchers along with the wider community.

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Contents
Background, brief literature and rationale..................................................................................................3
Aims and objectives.....................................................................................................................................5
Study method..............................................................................................................................................6
Sampling Methods.......................................................................................................................................6
Sample size and power................................................................................................................................6
Intervention.................................................................................................................................................7
Data collection methods..............................................................................................................................7
Ethical approval...........................................................................................................................................7
Data analyses...............................................................................................................................................8
Proposed action plan...................................................................................................................................9
Anticipated outcomes and significance.....................................................................................................10
Strategies to evaluate outcomes...............................................................................................................11
Proposed timeline.....................................................................................................................................11
Proposed budget, and justification of budget...........................................................................................13
References.................................................................................................................................................14

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Background, brief literature and rationale
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is concerned with the disease of the heart (cardio) and
blood vessels (vascular). The affected blood vessels may be in various parts of the body. They
may comprise of peripheral vascular disease and the brain manifested as a stroke. Some of the
types of CVD are most common in Australia such as coronary heart diseases, heart failure,
hypertension and cerebrovascular disease.
CVD is amongst the major causes of death and disability in Australia. It accounts for
17% of the overall diseases in Australia in the year 2003. Almost $5.9 Billion of direct
healthcare expenditure is spent on the prevention of CVD . It represents 11% of the total allotted
health system expenditure in Australia.
This research proposal is conducted with the intention to introduce public intervention
which sets the goals and objectives, planning strategies for accomplishing these goals and
identification of the means to evaluate the objectives for prevention of CVD in Australia (Yang
et al., 2012).
There are certain risk factors for CVD. Chronic diseases such as chronic kidney diseases,
CVD and Diabetes are the risk factors for each other. Diabetes is known to be a common risk
factor for CVD. There should be a framework for the prevention of these diseases. According to
the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), the prevention of the disease or ill health
pertains to the action to mitigate the reasons, factors, complexities or recurrence of ill health or
diseases.

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A public intervention should be developed for monitoring the actions taken and creating
awareness amongst the people of Australia for mitigating the effects of these diseases. The
framework should be based upon the rationale of prevention followed by the major areas in
which the prevention is crucial for the health care system (Rice, 2012).
It should be followed by prevention of the disease and the progression, complexities and
reoccurrence amongst the people suffering from these diseases. There are two crucial aspects of
monitoring for each of the components. These aspects pertain to the outcomes which can be
prevented and the provisions of prevention services (Masters & Hooker, 2013).
In terms of monitoring of the outcomes, the public intervention would include the
evaluation of the prevalence of the disease in each of the areas viz. risk factors, the disease along
with their complexities comprising with their reoccurrence. These areas are required to be
evaluated for analyzing the magnitude of the problem which would help in determining if the
prevention activities can create the desired impact.

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So, it becomes crucial to monitor the results over time for the population in question,
especially for the high-risk population groups. They comprise of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people and various other socio-economic groups. It becomes helpful for comparing
Australia with other countries in this context (Nghiem, Blakely, Cobiac, Pearson & Wilson,
2015).
The prevention services comprise of two activities. The first activity pertains to the
promotion of health aiming to provide the best chance to maintain good health and prevention of
ill health to individuals and groups. The health promotion emphasizes working with people so
that they can make decisions about their needs.
Health promotion is the procedure of enabling people so that they can improve their
health. The individuals and communities can control over the determinants of the health. The
targets for health promotion pertain to the dietary habits of people and their physical activity
patterns along with the use of tobacco and alcohol (Australian Institute of Health, 2012).
The second activity pertains to the more therapeutic type of health care which is usually
provided under the supervision of a medical practitioner. It comprises of regular health checkups,
vaccinations and prescription of medications. In order to prevent the risk factors, there is a large
role for promotion of health and smaller yet crucial role for health care, taxes and school-based
intervention( O’Mara-Eves et al.,2015).
Monitoring of health is often associated with the care at the individual level. In order to
prevent the disease, it is crucial to monitor the services and interventions at the population level.
It comprises conducting campaigns through television advertisements. Evaluating the