Promoting Health and Well-being

Promoting Health and
Well-being
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Alcohol awareness.......................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Health and well-being are considered as the absence of physical illness, mental disorder
and disease. Further, it can be described as an attainment or maintenance of physical fitness &
mental stability. Moreover, health promotions enable individuals to increase control over their
own health condition. In addition, it includes a wide number of social & ecological interventions
that are created to provide benefits and prevent people.
This report will design & create a health promotion artefact on Alcohol Awareness, to be
presented at a health promotion event. Proper knowledge and understanding of this health issue
from a holistic perspective. In task second it will cover own performance design & creation of
artefact
TASK 1
Alcohol awareness
Alcohol Awareness is basically the term which states that spreading information to public
about the usage and abuse of alcohol. It has been discovered that, alcohol is considered as the
most commonly used drug abused in the United Kingdom, as millions of people suffer from
alcohol abuse. It has been determined that, the risk of having alcohol dependence starts at low
levels of drinking & raise directly with both volume of it consumed & a pattern of drinking
larger amounts on an occasion (Critchlow, Moodie and Hastings, 2016).
In medical care, the term alcohol drug abuse was used as disorder from 1994 to 2013.
Further, the level of misuse of Britain has changes over recent centuries. Moreover, since then
the alcohol trends & drug abuse have increased steadily. On the other, major role was played by
British physicians in the emergence of this concept of addiction from primary challenge to
Galen's theories and now to the broadly implemented Alcohol Dependence Syndrome.
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Production of alcoholic drinks is considered purposeful and often indicates culture characteristic
as much as sociological conditions. It was recognised and sponsored by NCADD, an Alcohol
Awareness Month was introduced in 1987 to help to decrease the stigma so often associated with
alcoholism by motivating communities to reach out to the public, each of April with data
regarding alcohol, its disorder and recover. Further, it was discovered that, alcoholism is
considered as a chronic, progressive disease, which is genetically predisposed and kills if not
treated.
Too frequently drinking is an expectation rather than a choice. Many human beings are
suffering in UK, as the result of their own or other's drinking habits. Furthermore, in UK many
individuals choose to drink more healthily or each year take a step & stop drinking. Due to this
their lives and lives of others around them change in positive way. Therefore, a great exercise is
happening in health promotion sector across the country. In addition, many organisations and
charities are campaigning for system-wide improvement so fewer people are harmed through
alcohol abuse (Williams, Alexande and Dillon, 2017).
The Alcohol Awareness Week 2017 in UK started in November. The major attention was
on families & alcohol, and the campaign's organiser. Alcohol Concern, the health promotion
organiser had taken the opportunity to begin a conversation around the risky drinking to assist
break the cycle of silence and stigma that is all frequently experienced by families. Furthermore,
it was discovered that the campaign was sharing the stories of people affected by dangerous
drinking, including cases of alcohol services performing great across the UK. Given below are
the facts about alcohol:-
 Harmful drinking is considered as the biggest danger or risk factor for death of millions
of people, ill-health and disability among 14 to 50 years in age across the UK.
 50% of violent crime is because of alcohol.
 There were about 8756 deaths in 2015, due to alcohol abuse in the UK.
There is an organisation Alcohol Health Network, that is on a mission to encourage greater
alcohol awareness across the UK, in local areas, places of work and Universities. They believe
that, every individual must understand how to stay healthy, drink safely and live a health life for
longer (Contreras, Hidalgo and Varela, 2015).
Impact of Alcohol Abuse and Addiction
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