How Pharmacy Technicians Apply Health Promotion and Wellbeing Principles in Practice

How Pharmacy
Technicians apply the
principles of Health
Promotion and Wellbeing
in practice

Table of Contents
TASK 1: Understanding factor that influence health and well-being and the relationship between
public health and pharmacy.............................................................................................................1
Section 1: Factor influence health and well-being.................................................................1
1.1: Relationship between lifestyle and health and wellbeing...........................................1
1.2: Factor impact on health and wellbeing.......................................................................1
1.3: Impact of health and wellbeing on society.................................................................2
Section 2: Relationship between public health and pharmacy...............................................3
1.4: Functions of public health organisations....................................................................3
1.5: Role of health promotion in relation to public health.................................................3
1.6: Role of pharmacy services in supporting public health..............................................3
1.7: Role of pharmacy services in current health promotion policies, campaigns and
interventions......................................................................................................................3
TASK 2: Principle of behaviour change applied in health promotion.............................................4
1.1: Principle of effective behaviour change..........................................................................4
1.2: Environmental factor that influences behaviour change.................................................5
1.3: Barrier to behaviour change............................................................................................6
1.4: Type of health promotion approach................................................................................6
TASK 3: Role of pharmacy technician in the promotion of public health......................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

TASK 1: Understanding factor that influence health and well-being and the
relationship between public health and pharmacy
Section 1: Factor influence health and well-being
1.1: Relationship between lifestyle and health and wellbeing
The variety of lifestyle and health related habit which is also known as the behavioural
factor that can affect the major individual health. It usually includes smoking, alcohol and poor
diet that may lead to create the issue of obesity or malnutrition. Therefore, the lack of exercise,
sexual behaviour and the issue which may use to create the issue which is also resulted with
substance abuse. The relationship between lifestyle and health and wellbeing is usually
interrelated that include if a person is used to take proper diet with the fixed time interval, the
health and wellbeing of the person is maintaining in effective way. Whereas, if the person is
taking poor diet and doing smoking and drug abuse it may cause the issue of disease and illness.
It directly affects the person health and wellbeing. For example, if any individual has habit of
smoking and binge eating with the substance abuse, it indicates the sign of risky behaviour that
originate the issue of diabetes, obesity, overweight and many more disease which impact the
health and wellbeing. Therefore, the lifestyle and health and wellbeing of any individual is
related with the each other.
Diet: In this, the diet is the vital element that used to perform within the people for the healthy
outcome.
Exercise: The exercise is the key elements which is help to show the outcome that is based on
the healthy approach that improve the quality of life.
Smoking: It is addictive in nature are usually cause various of issue with the disease. In addition,
it is usually show the major cause which is related with the habit of addiction due to the nicotine
and rise several issue.
Substance use: Substance abuse is usually related with drug or such drug which is addictive in
nature. In addition, they usually follow in order to create the symptoms such as addiction and
while quitting the withdrawal symptoms is also arising.
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