Measuring Health: Importance and Strategies for a Strong and Healthy Life

This report discusses the vitality of measuring health of an individual from public health and promotion point of view for succeeding strong life sustainability. It explains principles of health screening including the benefits and harms of process, related to delivery of health promotion and public health view. Public health measures which can be taken by doctors and healthcare practitioners for spreading the message of health and active lifestyle, precautions and measures needed to be taken for eliminating obesity from society.

Measuring health presentation

Table of Content
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................4
Background.................................................................................................................................................4
Main section................................................................................................................................................5
Physical Health........................................................................................................................................6
Mental Health..........................................................................................................................................6
Social health measures.............................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Measuring health is one of the foremost important function of an individual for leading
strong healthy life with longetivity and strong parameters of public health describes the state of
livelihood people are living in country. This report explains the vitality of measuring health of an
individual from public health and promotion point of view for succeeding strong life
sustainability. This report discusses health risks associated with obesity, the various factors
which lead to obesity in individuals and various measures which can be reportedly taken for
eliminating this risk. It explains principles of health screening including the benefits and harms
of process, related to delivery of health promotion and public health view. Public health
measures which can be taken by doctors and healthcare practitioners for spreading the message
of health and active lifestyle, precautions and measures needed to be taken for eliminating
obesity from society. This report explains important measures for mental health, strong physical
well bi eng and how individual has massive role to play in continuing to overall society
acknowledgement towards healthy lifestyle. This report explains an individual health profile who
has been suffering from obesity, due to which it has affected physical well being majorly by
being diagnosed with hypertension and diabetes (American Diabetes Association,2019).
Background
World Health Organization defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and
social well-being with high immunity power and not merely absence of disease or infirmity. The
physical and mental well being is human right for enabling an individual a life without limitation
or restriction and it has high affect on surrounding community and people living nearby.
Measuring health is highly important for living healthy long life which has strong positive
impacts and positivity on dimensions of health. The measures which help people can take for
strong immunity standards and healthy lives are as follows:
INDICATORS OF HEALTH AND DISAESE
 Regular health check-ups and medical facilities should be assessed by individuals for
regulating health risks and maintaining proper physical, mental and social health. Social
health is largely affected by the way people are coming in contact with each other, their
livelihood factors and the way they are taking health measures seriously. Socially people
need to take hygienic cleanliness very seriously, and epidemiology data is very helpful
for getting people acknowledge to all ways and medical precautions necessary for
disease. Health indicators are strong social health measures factors including mortality
indicators, morbidity factors and the nutritional status indicators which help people to get
doctors and healthcare practitioners definite percentage knowledge .
 A strong healthy diet with all fruits and vegetables, high immune boosting food with all
essential vitamins and minerals are the essential measures which can be taken by

individuals to get stable healthy physical health. Health standards can be measured by the
percentage of people falling sick and their recovery rate which affects their long term
figures of healthy living standards in city. The data shows one in four people are affected
by mental health issues or neurological disorders.450 million people worldwide are
suffering from mental disorders and the leading disability disorders affecting their
physical health majorly (Blaner,2019).
 The health dimensions which are physical health, mental health and social health are
highly important for sustaining strong percentage of immunity and nourishment. Obesity
has been growing concern in countries around the world, the epidemic continues with
around two billion people affected worldwide percentage being more than 30%. . It can
be checked by the increase in BMI index which if measures by 30 or above, it has
massive affects on individual life standards. The recent statistics researched by WHO
analyses there has been continuous increase by diseases and health risks to people
worldwide by obesity and overweight problems.
 The health risks associated with obesity and overweight due to the lethargic lifestyles,
addiction of junk food habits and genetic factors highly contribute to increase in body fat
percentage and overall BMI of person. The global emergence in obesity percentage
increase develop risk of chronic mental disorders, low grade inflammation and various
chronic disorders such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and high blood pressure
leading to hypertension. Public health screening helps to gain insights on the health
emergency factors, changing world scenario and the necessary focus needed to measure
causes and health status (Flodgren ,Parmell and Grimshaw, 2019).
 MENTAL AND SOCIAL HEALTH DIMENSIONS FOR THE PROFILE
 Mental and social dimensions of health based on health profile can be understood with
the fact that mental health is one of the most important topic emerging globally where
people face depression and higher cases of anxiety, low optimistic attitude in life through
which new working horizons are disabled. Mental health dimension is highly important
for effective living standards where people need to find high balance between their work
balance and emotional attitude among living standards. Social health dimension is the
ability to make and maintain strong meaningful relationships with others where it
includes not only having relationships but behaving widely appropriate with practical
understanding to maintain socially acceptable standards.
 Health risks associated with mental and social health can be analyzed as follows:
People who face an unstable mental and social health face various wide impacts
on their mental abilities to bring on advanced synergy and stroger rational decisions
pertaining onto new rational paradigms where people face cases of extreme loneliness,
high depression which not only impacts their welfare standard but also for long term have
wide impact onto their understanding in living patterns. As the mental and social well
functioning is not proper many times in people they face high consciousness among
living standards where there are vast cases of people committing suicide due to unstable
mental health and where they are not socially engaged with people . The mental health

and social health are widely going under wide transmission where people face less
rational synergy of comfortable activeness to work among social peers and yield onto
new paramaters of living standards (Reynolds and Childers, 2020).
DEMOGARPHICAL AND EPIDILOGICAL DATA
Main section
Mr X is an adult of 25 age working as HR manger in London, UK who has been
suffering from obesity from long period of time. The health profile of him explains he has
been largely suffering from health issues related to hypertension, increased blood pressure
and hypertension problems. The educational background and ethnicity of living standards
shows he was overweight from his high school period, due to less inactive social life and less
physical activities. His genetics history shows both parents also faced obesity problems for
major period of time in their lives, which affected their son health too. The data surveyed
by doctors on Mr. X health history shows his food habits were not proper and he was
largely addicted of fast foods, which affected his immune system and the physical well-
being taking huge toll on his weight. Lethargic lifestyle and not being much active in sport
activities during his childhood and high school period, social campaigns made him very
dysfunctional and impacted his weight to gain massive fat percentage. The health profile of
Mr. X explains he needs to reduce his obesity through focusing on exercises and health food
habits need to be taken care of for reducing aftermaths of obesity such as diabetes,
hypertension (Milla,,Menzo and Rosenthal,2019).
`The public health professional would conduct some questioner questions from Mr. X related to
overall health and mental well being perspectives which will determine to make an effective
health profile
Physical Health
1. What is your current height and weight?
2. How any hours of continuous sitting work you do at office?
3. Do you practice yoga or exercises for marinating appropriate physical body?
4. What are your food habits and do you have major addiction towards fast foods?
5. Do you include fruits and vegetables as an important component of your diet ?
Mental Health
1 Do you practice meditation as a regular phenomenon of life?
2 Are you satisfied and content in your job?
3 Do you face periods of depression in your life?

4 Do you have peers or mentors in life with which you can share your mental issues and
problems?
5 Is the stress of your job affecting your mental health?
Social health measures
1 What all hobbies do you posses ?
2 Do you have interests in sport activities?
3 How many times you hangout with your friends or colleagues in restraint, pubs in a
month?
4 Do you have habit to share your physical problems raised by obesity to your friends or
family members?
5 Do you take your health issues seriously and are you ready to commit towards talking
guidance and medical help by doctor and healthcare practitioners?
HELATH DATA
The above data and information collected by conducting questioners to Mr.X shows that. the
individual is facing major health issues due to is inactive lifestyle, not paying attention to
physical well bieng and neglecting exercises. The individual has long hours of sitting works at
office and has been majorly addicted to wrong food habits where fast foods have been the
biggest proportion of concern. He has neglected his weight gain problems for long period of time
due to which health problems of high blood pressure, low immunity factors to fight diseases such
as diabetes and hypertension has arisen (Panchal.Agrawal and Thakor,2019).
Mr.X has low outdoor activities and sport interests which have taken toll on his physical
body health majorly and negatively impacted his mental peace also. He does not consume fruits
and vegetables as regular component of diet and is largely addicted to fast food habits, due to
social gathering outings with friends. He spends less time in taking care of his physical health,
mediation practices and outdoor activities which has lowered the stamina and immunity factors
largely. The individual has not attended to doctors and healthcare practitioners due to which
negligence towards physical and mental healthcare has increased majorly from his side. Mr X
should take advice of experienced doctors and healthcare practisoners in eliminating the diseases
caused by obesity and indulge more in physical activities and follow a prescribed diet with high
focus on fiber and proteins.
Principles of health screening
Population health screening enables effective way to detect specific disease or conditions
in specific regions with detailed analysis of family medical history, genetic disorders and living
conditions. Health screening help people who have high cardiovascular diseases, diabetes or
obesity issues to get proper medical care and facilities to alter the long term negative impacts.
This is one of the most innovative and effective method to get structured data related to people
physical and mental well-being, statistics related to the social healthcare measure which needs to

be taken for curing people health issues (Taylor and Guerin,2019). Health screening related to
delivery of health promotion and public health can be understood as one of the most important
parameter through which health promotion is widely spread among public health through which
new rational goals can be reached among widely spread world arenas. Health promotion and
delivery of wide screening will enable people to access data of how much people are facing
mental unstableness, and loosing their social connectivity among living parameters. Socially and
mentally people need to be active to bring new rational parameters where the utils and standards
define how wider technical advanced paradigms can be attained.
Benefits of health screening process can be analyzed with the fact that it enables to get
analysis of the various health standards among people within the physical, public and
social living standards where there are vast parameters through which more improvement
can be brought up among people (Crighton, 2020). The benefits also are that proper health
facilities can be built up among cities where the functional efficiency and medical built up
among people further brings in rational communicative synergy of productive living
standards with wide focus for bringing hygiene and also vivid counseling efforts. There are
various respective benefits of heath screening procedure for which new leverage is
developed among living standards where the vast counseling efforts bring on new energy
levels and upgraded medical facilities with which new society efficiency can be upgraded
(Reiband, Heitmann, and Sørensen, 2020).
Limitations and challenges which may arise within the heath screening process are that
many people may not feel comfortable to share their medical history or their present health
parameters within the living scenario where the health screening may not be conducted
with proper analysis and wider metrics may not be worked on.
The hygienic factors, cholesterol tests, blood pressure tests, diabetes tests are some of the
most common parameters through which population health screening is done. Advantages of
population health screening are it enables government investigators of country and regional
healthcare practisoners to get whole data about the current health scenario and major hazards to
people long term health standards. However the potential disadvantages are the screening is an
elaborative procedure where all individuals are not comfortable in sharing their health problems,
genetic disorders. Ethical considerations and sensibility factors must be taken special care of
while conducting the surveys and also often technology to keep all data safe and structured is
often expensive. Obesity is large spread health concern for all people around UK where the
factors have massively affected all age group peoples. There has been large rise in depression
and hypertension mental issues in people health due to which social healthcare measures such as
group mediation, yoga practices should be conducted in all regions.
Mr.X should be given guidance and medical by an experienced doctor or healthcare
practitioner who has high experience in treating obesity problems and solving his hypertension
mental health concerns. He should be advised to take proper guidance and assistance from

doctors regarding diet charts and follow-ups shall be done to maintain proper consistency. He
should be prescribed high fiber fruits and vegetables in meals by doctors to reduce his obesity
problems and high sugar levels. He should start attending yoga sessions, take proper physical
training from gym trainers for exercises and start outdoor physical sport activities. Population
health screening will help him to get in touch with healthcare professionals and get detailed
knowledge from experienced doctors regarding his health problems. The individual by focusing
on building natural diet and eliminating fast foods from meal routine can gain strength again,
boost the immunity and regain mental peace for long term benefits (Workgroup and Committee
on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine, 2020).
CONCLUSION
This report can be concluded with explanation that measuring health standards with
population health screening is highly important for country and region successful
implementation of healthcare practices. This report concludes population health screening will
help individual to gain knowledge on parameters where he needs to focus by altering lethargic
lifestyle from his daily habits. Obesity is found to be one of the most serious health
concern which has impacted living standards of health among people, where lethargic
lifestyle and ineffective living and unhealthy diets are causing major health problems for
people. Report hs concluded various health problems faced by the profile of person Mr. X
where there are various factors which show that obesity has been causing various health
issues (Fortea and et.al 2020). The gathered data and statistics will help him to become aware
of health hazards from obesity, the future health problems and the measures which needs to be
taken immediately. It also concludes Body mass index of Mr. X has been largely unstable and
constantly increasing, which has to be controlled for maintaining strong parameters on long term
health benefits. The health hazards on individual have been severely toxic on health structure and
mental consciousness where doctors and natural diet acre will play major role. It concludes the
importance of nutrition in diet and maintaining strong active life with exercises and functional
training, and how it can affect to eliminate obesity negative impacts (Reynolds and
Childers,2020).This report has elaborately explained the benefits of population health screening
and the various potential drawbacks which are high cost machines implementation and
sensibility of patients, which may hinder the process.

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