Changes to Promote Health and Wellbeing in the Community

Running head: HEALTHCARE
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HEALTHCARE1
Reflective practice:
Describe the changes that promote health and wellbeing:
The increasing health costs and risk factors that are associated with obesity are well
documented. The high prevalence of obesity is well documented in the community setting
where the population adopted a sedentary lifestyle (1). One in four Australian adults were
obese in 2009 and one-third of the population was overweight. Hence, in the community
setting changing the lifestyle and health behaviour, especially eating habits would promote
the wellbeing and health of the community (3). In the community, different individuals with
different socioeconomic status, race, age, and culture are living. Consequently, the eating
habits and health behaviours are shaped by these factors which affected the wellbeing.
Therefore, changing eating habits and lifestyle behaviour will promote wellbeing and health
in the community.
This change is important in the community setting since in 2017 -2018 Australian
Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey showed that two-third Australians of the
communities were overweight where the majority of the individuals belongs to 32 years to
60years (4). Childhood obesity was also observed in the community, an estimated 26% of
children aged 5 to 17years were overweight (4). A significant number of individuals in the
community are suffering from at least one chronic disease associated with obesity such as
cardiovascular disease, hypertension, cerebrovascular disease and diabetes which result in an
increase in health care cost (2). Changing lifestyle by adopting healthy eating habits and
physical exercise would reduce the prevalence of obesity in the community setting and health
care cost.