Contemporary Issues in Healthcare: Obesity as a Public Health Issue in Westminster, UK

Contemporary Issues in
Healthcare

Executive summary
The contemporary public health issues are consider as the key medical issues or challenges
which lead to the health care services needs and adverse impact on the peoples health well-being.
Public health issues factors are further associated with the challenges like health inequalities
because this lead to the higher needs of health care services, which lead to the health inequalities
and in another hand the public health issues indicates or raise the health inequalities factors
which lead to this result of the public health issues. In this report detail analysis of the obesity as
the contemporary public health issues is done in context to the selected city of the UK
(Westminster). Along with this determinants of health specific to obesity are evaluated with the
help of Dahlgren and Whitehead’s model and the effective strategies are analysed which help to
address this issue. medical or psychosocial model of health is use to evaluate the health issue
addressing strategies effectiveness.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES ..............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The contemporary public health issues are consider as the key medical issues or
challenges which lead to the health care services needs and adverse impact on the peoples health
well-being. Public health issues factors are further associated with the challenges like health
inequalities because this lead to the higher needs of health care services, which lead to the health
inequalities and in another hand the public health issues indicates or raise the health inequalities
factors which lead to this result of the public health issues. In context to the UK one of the most
affecting public health issue identified is obesity. In the UK England about 63% of the adults in
the were classified as overweight or obese in 2015 (Van den Bosch and Bird, 2018). The Health
Survey for the England 2019 analysed that approx 28.0% of the adults in the England are obese
and 36.2% are overweight but not obese and it has also identified that men are more likely to
have overweight or obesity in comparison to the women's. Obesity is one of the most serious
public health issues, this is the type of complex disease which lead to the development of further
adverse health conditions like higher blood pressure, diabetes etc. In the UK obesity is reaching
the alarming level and children's are highly affected by this (Hubley, Copeman, and Woodall,
2021). Obesity is now count as the public health issues at the similar level of the smoking and
this develop or increase due to the life habits, like eating habits of the childhood is highly
associated with the development childhood and adults obesity. In the Westminster central
London 40% of the children's are overweight or obese by the age 11. The Fulham, Kensington
and Chelsea, Hammersmith Westminster, consulted with the range of the professionals such as
NHS and council department to understand the needs of reducing the childhood obesity in the
area. The public health issues in the Westminster is due to the unhealthy eating choices of the
children's and young peoples. In this report detail analysis of the obesity as the contemporary
public health issues is done in context to the selected city of the UK (Westminster). Along with
this determinants of health specific to obesity are evaluated with the help of Dahlgren and
Whitehead’s model and the effective strategies are analysed which help to address this issue.
medical or psychosocial model of health is use to evaluate the health issue addressing strategies
effectiveness.
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