Obesity as a Public Health Priority in Australia

primary health care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
National health priority includes the focus on public health which are getting affected due to
any reason or cause. This can have high impact on individual life along with country. Here,
obesity is one of the major public health priority which are effective and causing health concern
for large number of population within country. There are large number of young adult population
are affected through the higher care of obesity. There is need to take care of this through using
different promotion and strategy which can be effective to reduce and minimise the health
concern. There is discussion about the reasons for choosing obesity as the public health priority.
There is also discussion about the key concept and ideas. It also includes the understanding of
health equity principles and related social determinants of health (Mihrshahi et. al., (2018)).
MAIN BODY
Obesity refers to a condition which includes the excess body fat which can be accumulated
within any individual. This can lead to negative effect on individual health. It can also lead to
major cause of disability. Obesity is highly effective health concern through which large number
of young adult population are getting affected which also lead to create high negative health
impact on individual. There are various reasons for obesity within individual which can cause
due to socioeconomics, individual and environmental causes. There are also some causes which
may include physical activity and diet. Here, diet and physical activity plays an important role in
increasing cases of diabetes within Australian young adult population which should be taken in
consideration and apply some strategy to avoid and minimize increasing cases of obesity
(Albracht-Schulte et. al., (2018)).
Health equity principle includes the people who are in greatest needs, and disparities in
detection, treatment and survivorship. Here, it is essential to get the authentic expression which
can deal with respect, justice, access along with dignity. Here, it is needed to take care about the
working condition, income, education, medical care, social inclusion and many more.
There are some of the social determinants of health which may include dietary factor,
physical activity, sleep, genetics, lifestyle, environmental exposure and many more. These are
effective and can lead to cause various negative heath impact like obesity as major within large
young adult population (García et. al., (2020)).