The Role of Nurses in Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health

The role of the nurse in promoting health
and preventing ill health.

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Psychological or psychosocial factors influence the development of obesity.............................1
Socio-economic factors influence the development of obesity...................................................2
Demographic factors influence the development of obesity........................................................3
Psychological, Socio-economic and Demographic factors contribution to patient diagnosed
with COVID-19 within community.............................................................................................4
Recommendations for healthy behaviours and lifestyle..............................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The concept of health promotion as well as the disease prevention programs generally
concentrate on keeping the public healthy. The well-being promotion programs specifically aim
to engage as well as empower the people and the communities to select the healthy behaviours
and can make the alterations which can overcome the developing risks of various chronic
illnesses and other morbidities. Nowadays, there is prevalence of obesity among public and it can
cause various severe chronic illnesses such as developing risk of cardiovascular illness, type 2
diabetes, cancer and many more. The prevalence of obesity is more common among children's
too. People nowadays do not focus on maintaining health and do not perform adequate physical
activities, spending too much time in watching television, unhealthy lifestyle and unhealthy
eating (The Eatwell Guide, 2018). It is the main reason that prevention of obesity is quite
essential among adults and children's too. In this, care nurses can effectively act as educating the
patients as well as their families on healthy nutrition, the well-being care system as well as
obesity associated illnesses. The care nurses can specifically act as a personalized counsellor by
aiding the patients and their families to determine their specific well-being goals as well as can
develop an effective plan to accomplish them. In this report, there is a discussion about the
various psychological, socio-economic as well as demographic factors that can make negative
impact over patient's health and causes the risk of developing obesity among them. In addition to
this, there is also a discussion about recommendations by the care nurses to the ill patients in
order to improve their healthy behaviours and can achieve lifestyle as well (Fatima et. al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
Psychological or psychosocial factors influence the development of obesity.
Obesity is generally been determined as a major public well-being concern of the very
21st century across nation. It is generally marked as an excessive collection of the fat inside the
human body. In this, the genetic factors can also play a key role in the development of obesity
among public such as behavioural factors like exercising too little and eating more. Obesity as
well as its co-morbidities can come with a peculiar psychosocial burden, influencing various
regions of the psychosocial functioning. The evaluation of the psychosocial functioning is an
essential part of both the assessment and a treatment planning for the people having obesity.
Though, loosing weight is specifically linked with enhancements in the psychosocial functioning
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