Health Promotion Assignment - (Solved)
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Health Promotion Assignment - (Solved)
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HEALTH PROMOTION
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Effect of Socio-economic influences on health.....................................................................11.2 Relevance of government sources in reporting on inequalities in health..............................21.3 Barriers to accessing Healthcare............................................................................................2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................32.1 Relation Between Government Strategy and Smoking Cessation Program..........................32.2 Role of Professional to meet the Government Target............................................................42.3 Routine Needs to Quit Smoking............................................................................................5TASK 3............................................................................................................................................63.1 Health beliefs related to theories of health behavior.............................................................63.2 Possible effects of potential conflicts with local industry on any health promotion.............63.3 Importance of providing relevant health related information to the public...........................7TASK 4............................................................................................................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONHealth promotion can be defined as process of increasing health awareness among peopleand increasing their control over themselves in order to improve their health. This assignmentfocuses on influencing health in modern society as well as identify factors that influence regionaland national health promotion strategies. This assignment will day emphasis on understanding ofsocio-economic factors influence on healthcare by discussing health inequalities and barriers inaccessing healthcare, discussion of health promotion models, discussion of factors that willinfluence health promotions and conflicts of local industry on health promotions and lastly, apresentation on health promotion campaign with topic “ Physical activity and mental health ”will be discussed. TASK 11.1 Effect of Socio-economic influences on healthThere are various socio-economic factors that influences health of an individual. Factorssuch as unemployment, disposable income, environment, lifestyle choices, access to healthcarefacilities,discrimination on health and various others. Disposable income of an individual giverise to smoking as it becomes more and more accessible to them. Most of the employed peoplesuffer from stress a lot which influences them towards smoking tobacco as they think thatsmoking tobacco relives them from stress. Another socio-economic factor that influences onhealth is unemployment. It has been seen that unemployment and smoking are related to eachother. Unemployment causes stress and smoking is seen as stress reliever. Unemployment has adrastic effect on an individual's health and due to that stress they get attracted towards smoking.Smoking is a main cause of health degradation or death in many countries (Elgar and et.al 2016).Due to stress, unemployment lifestyle of individual's as well as their families is also affected. Asa result those individuals adopt alcohol, smoking, drugs etc. within their lifestyle. Another cause of this lifestyle and health degradation is the environment in which anindividual lives in. Tobacco is negatively dangerous for our society. Many people get influencedfor smoking seeing other enjoying smoking tobacco, which makes them smoke as well. This isnot only harmful for the individual's who smoke but for the people who lives with them they alsoamong people who indirectly inhales tobacco which influences their health. Poverty orunemployment or lack of information also causes individuals to smoke as they see others and getbadly influenced by it. Education or information is not only linked with school or colleges1
education or information but it is related to health education and information as well. Most of thepeople who smoke does not even know the side effects of it, they are unaware of the thing thathow badly smoking affects an individual's health and degrade it continuously (Gertler and et.al2015). All these factors are related to each other like lifestyle of an individual depends upon theenvironment in which they lives, family income of an individual, employment, education,information, stress etc. All these factors not only influence an individual and forces them tosmoke but this smoking tobacco constantly degrade their health.1.2 Relevance of government sources in reporting on inequalities in healthThere are various government sources where inequalities in health have been reportedsuch as black report, 1980. In this report department of health and and social security published areport on health inequalities. In this report they said that even though welfare or health state haschanged and improved there are widespread inequalities. In this report it was found that the maincause of this health inequalities was inequalities in economy. It was seen that the death rate andhealth degradation rate in social class 5th was much more that death and health degradation ratein social class 1st ( almost double). This report clearly showed that that ill-health and death wasunequally distributed among the overall population of Britain. Another report named Achesonreport that was published in 1998 titled inquiry into inequalities in health report. This reportemphases on greater health difference and their relationship with the social class (Kendig andet.al 2017). This report suggested that there is more need to tackle economic and socialdeterminants of health inequalities, government policies should be worked upon to reduce thesehealth inequalities. Equality in mortality rate of higher and lower class should be equal. Thisreports gave many recommendations and ways to reduce these inequalities related to health,social and environmental factors. This report was released into a more favourable climate adthese health inequalities were not that much prominent at the the time of report as it was at Blackreport time. Both the reports had a huge political impact throughout the United Kingdom. Thesereports forced the government to focus on health inequalities and take initiatives to reduce healthinequalities. The main target of government in regards to these reports was to target and abandonthese inequalities in a more modest was as possible 1.3 Barriers to accessing HealthcareThere are various barriers that an individuals has to face in accessing healthcare. Thesebarriers work as a hindrance in accessing healthcare facilities and even cause many other types2
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