Health Promotion Strategies to Reduce Mental Health Among Children and Young People

Health Promotion
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Q1 Statistics and information on mental health among children and young people...................3
Two relevant health promotion theories......................................................................................5
Health promotion and disease prevention strategies to reduce mental health among children
and young people.........................................................................................................................6
Two communicational strategies that can be used in engaging stakeholders and disseminating
the message to them.....................................................................................................................7
2. The ways in which “The Lalonde Report” may influence the health promotion campaigns in
UK................................................................................................................................................8
Q3: Planning a health promotion programme...........................................................................10
Resources, required for successful implementation of health promotion plan..........................11
Two types of evaluation designs and frameworks and impact of health promotion programme
on addressing mental health issue..............................................................................................12
Comparing impact of this health promotion with similar health promotion campaign.............13
Evidence based information to support discussion of initiative................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15
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INTRODUCTION
A process that can make people able to increase control over and improving overall health
(Hubley, Copeman and Woodall, 2021). This study is going to discuss prevalence of mental
health in UK and reasons as why young women are suffering the most from mental health as
compared to men. It will further discuss some causing factors of poor mental health among
children and young people in the UK with the main aim of improving their health by using health
promotional and prevention strategies accordingly. It will also discuss communicational
strategies by which stakeholders can be engaged and detailed information related to health
promotion can be provided. This study will then discuss some steps that need to be considered
for planning an effective health promotion. Along with this, this report will show some ways and
strategies by which effectiveness of health promotional program can be evaluated and measured.
Having reliable and appropriate resources also play a vital role as it enable health care providers
in preparing health promotional program in an effective manner.
MAIN BODY
Q1 Statistics and information on mental health among children and young people
It is found from secondary data and reports published that adults aged 18 and over has
reported a significant level of psychological distress increased from around 20.8 in 2019 to
29.6% in 2020, April. Distress and mixed anxiety is the common mental disorder in the UK and
it is stated that people of England will experience depression in their lifetime (Sadler and et.al.,
2018). Mental illness is affecting them physically and emotionally and it is decreasing their life
expectancy and living standard as well. It is also found that 50% of mental health problems are
established by age 14 and 75% by age 24. 20% of adolescent experience a mental health
problem. So, on the basis of this data, it can clearly be said that mental health problem is
increasing and are common among children and young people under 24 years of age.
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Figure 1: Prevalence of mental health disorder by age, England
Source: (https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46306241)
On the basis of above graph, it can be said that young women of 17-19 age group are more likely
to suffer from mental health problem and as compared to men prevalence of mental health
among women is twice. Anxiety and depression are main common mental health disorder that is
affecting young women of England emotionally and physically.
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