Promoting Health and Wellness Assignment

Promoting Health and
Wellness

Table of Contents
Table of Contents.............................................................................................................................2
Summary..........................................................................................................................................1
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
Rationale..........................................................................................................................................1
Epidemiological...............................................................................................................................2
Determinants of Health....................................................................................................................4
Relevant health policy......................................................................................................................4
Target audience................................................................................................................................4
Health promotional Model...............................................................................................................5
Health message................................................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
Appendix........................................................................................................................................12

Summary
The present report has provided a reason behind why obesity lead is become main causes
of in children. the reason and epidemiological statistics linked with children who are obese and
suffer from mental illness is explained within the research. Further, the health message, policies
and promotion theories underpinning the design of the poster and leaflet to target children
between the aged of 5-11 will be critically analysed. at last, this report will look toward the
limitations of the present health promotional leaflet and suggestion for further health
interventions.
Introduction
Obesity is termed as a condition when an excess amount of fat gets deposited in some
parts of the body. Also, it is a leading cause of various complications such as diabetes, shortness
of sleep, breath and even death as well. In this, there are higher probabilities that the extra
amount of fat deposited in different parts of body start influencing negatively on the overall
functioning (McDonagh and et.al., 2014). There are various basic causes that can be considered
responsible for this and these involve excessive intake amount of fast food items, involvement of
less physical exercises and many more. Report involves a brief overview about obesity in
children along with proper specification for choosing the topic. It also includes the
epidemiological status, target audience, public health policy along with some health promotion
theories that can help children dealing with obesity and its various symptoms.
Specification (Rationale)
Specification for choosing the issue, Obesity
Obesity is a situation when an excess amount of fat gets deposited in some areas of body
affecting other bodily functions.. In the UK, it has been observed that a wide variety of people
are getting affected by obesity and major part of them are the children. So, there are different
types of risks that are linked with obesity such as diabetes, asthma and various heart diseases. So,
it is very important to analyse various ways and methods that can act helpful for preventing risk
of obesity in children because it is increasing rapidly (Goisis, Sacker and Kelly, 2015). After
analysing the factors responsible for causing obesity, proper preventive measures can be taken so
that it can be controlled and it is very important. Obesity can negatively influence the functioning
of bodily functions such as blood pressure, cancers, sleeping and breathing problems. So, this
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can actually throw a negative impact on the population of UK. Therefore, it is extremely
important to involve various ways of treatment and preventions so that it can be controlled and
the children as well as other population of UK can stay fit, healthy and happier.
Figure 1: Childhood obesity
(Source: Child obesity: a major public health issue - Eustace De Sousa, 2016)
From the above figure it is clearly reflects that obesity rate increase yearly within the UK. further
reasons which are identified are junk food. Due to obesity there are different risk factors which
can be arises that are Hypertension, heart diseases and psychological distress.
Epidemiological
statistics of obesity in children in the UK
Epidemiological aspects associated with obesity includes risk factors, global awareness
and other trends. It considers the analysis of these factors on an overall impact of obesity on
children along with basic population of UK.
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Figure 2:England heavy weight campaign
(Source: Obese at the age of 11: The towns where children are fatter than their parents)
This can be considered as the epidemiological status of the overall rate of obesity present in
children in UK. The overall rate of obese and over weight are less than that of the child with
excess weight (Anderson and et.al., 2017). The excess weight of children in UK are present in a
huge amount and this is the reason that it is causing further complications like diabetes, breathing
issues, etc. Environmental factors are termed as the most responsible for causing issue associated
with obesity(The Sunday Times (2016) . It is because; according to this, the intake of food
should be managed in a balanced way so that an efficient amount of energy can be expanded. It
is due to the fact that when a specific amount of food will enter the body, proper amount of
energy should be extracted from it so that it can be able to maintain a balance between different
bodily functions. Although, there are various other factors that are also responsible for causing
obesity but social networks and factors related are the most responsible one for causing obesity.
So, on the basis of data collected, as it is clear that a wide variety of children in UK are of excess
weight, so proper preventive measures can be involved to stay prevented from further
complications.
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The national child measurement programme reflects the high and weight of more than
one million children who are between the aged of 4-5 and 10-11 years studying in England
Primary school.
Determinants of Health
It is identified that there are many determinants of health among all of them one is known
as inequality due to which people not able to receive effective health related services. Parents
started eating unhealthy foods and this trend is followed by their children due to which various
health issues arises. it is important for both parents and children’s that they maintain healthy life
style so that their health issues can be avoided and they live quality life.
Relevant health policy
There have been various policies implemented by government of UK in order to prevent
the risk of obesity. One of the policies i.e. Change4Life, have been developed by the government
to provide help to people by making and improving their choices and thus, making them
healthier. The program involves change for different aspects of life. Whether it is intake of food,
drinks and content of sugars, calorie information and many more. So, by means of these policies
and programs, people are guided and taught about the factors that they can involve for a healthier
living. It involves all measures that are necessary to be excluded out from the daily schedule in
order to have a happy and balanced life.
There are some policies which are adopted in order to tackle childhood obesity
that are childhood obesity a plan for action was established in 2016. The first plan was to
monitor that soft drinks do not contain much sugar. it is analysed that there is increase in
consumption of soft drinks due to which chances of obesity arise. therefore, goal is to encourage
the inventors of the products to reformulate and reduce sugar content. Second one is that
campaign can be carried out such as Change4Life etc. it is effective enough in targeting children
who are between the age for 5 to 11 and parents.
Target audience
From the report of BBC is identified that among three one children is overweight or
obese levels. for the research targeted kids are between the age of 5-qq who will be inspire for
changes in their behaviour and for promoting health awareness (Public Health England
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2017). Children’s are always depended on their parents and its role of parents to help children in
maintaining healthy diet. Therefore, targeted audience is children with obesity and parents.
Parents lead to play significant role in respect to control their children and create awareness
among them about significance of eating healthy food.
Health promotional Model
For the present research beattie’s model is not used by parents as because of its
complexity. In contrast to this, for the study Tannahill’s descriptive model is adopted which have
three over lapping spheres that are health education, health protection and prevention. it is
appropriate because it lead to focus on providing education related to the improvement and well
being of individuals for reducing the risk factors of ill health through providing healthier choice
examples. It can include poster section which shows the way of preventing from obesity. it is
critically analysed that Tanahill’s model do not pay attention to community-based efforts for
making improvement in individual health’s and it do not proposed a new way to consider
community.
In respect to promote wellness within children proper knowledge related to childhood
obesity must be possess by children’s. The NMC (2010) reflects that the standards for
competence apply at different field of nursing which assist in influencing understanding of their
lifestyle and environment. through providing training will become easy to create awareness
among children related to the positive change which can prevent disease through spreading.
Social cognitive theory can be adopted in respect to influence individual experience related to
health belief. This theory lead to provide chances for social support through imparting
expectations, self efficacy and use of observational learning and other reinforcement to
accomplish behaviour change. social cognitive theory key components are as follows:
Self efficacy:
Behavioural capability
expectations:
Expectancies
self control”
It is a skill building exercise for enhancing independence and develop healthy behaviours
among all the participations.
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Health message
Due to high parental influence on children’s behaviour, the poster will have focused on
children with the parents so that they can keep control on healthy diet of children. Along with
this, message should be written in easy language which can
be understand by children’s. Further, images can be used to shows the negative impact of
obesity. Bright colour can be used in order to grab attention of children’s so that they can
focused on their health issues through reading the poster. Colour such as orange and yellow can
be used for represent ambition with a white background (Public Health England (2017). Along
with this, red sign can be shown for the dangerous of obesity. Green is avoided from the leaflet
and font size will be enough big so that it can be clearly read out. Uses of bullet point is also
effective idea because it can help in highlighting the main points. After preparing the poster it
will be placed within school, hospitals and newspaper so that it can easily notice by children’s as
well as parents.
On the other side, there are some limitations of poster because it has some information
related to contact if they had any questions or queries (NHS, Health Education England (2018).
Along with this, it can also have more information on preventative measures instead if being
displayed in bullet points. However, poster also have some strength such as placing cartoon
images which can be eye catching for children’s. Further it will be simple and attractive that can
grab attention of customers.
HEALTH MESSAGE COVERING OBESITY
Overview about obesity in children
Although, there are enormous
number of people that are
affected by obesity in UK but
the largest range that has been
covered by it involves children
and teens. Possible causes may
be termed as their habit of
eating fast food and a less
amount of involvement in
physical exercises. Therefore,
Therefore, if they manage, it
can stop the risk of obesity as
well and then the people can
enjoy a happier and healthier
life. So, it is better to analyse
before only so that proper
preventive measures can be
taken in order to control the
risk or issue. For this, parents
and guardians play an
For this, various ways that can
be included involves exercises,
less consumption of sugar and
there are some medications as
well that block the content of
fats from absorbing in the
body. Therefore, some factors
like taking a balanced diet,
involvement of physical
activities, etc. can actually help
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an improvement in the quality
of food can actually help these
children to fight with obesity.
For this, parents and guardians
can also ensure to provide a
better, tasty, healthy and an
efficient range of food items to
the children so that they may
not have to eat outside. This
can help in maintaining their
body weight. Involvement of
exercises can also help to
maintain the body weight. A
clear and appropriate health
message for coping with
different factors associated
with obesity can help such as
“Stop now to live a healthy
life”. Focusing on this, there
are enormous number of
factors that can be considered
from it. A major message is
being provided by it that if the
children in UK will analyse
and understand now only the
factors that are causing the
issue of obesity, they can
control the risk of happening
same (Katzmarzyk and et.al.,
2015).
important role. It is because;
they can ensure to provide the
children an efficient quality of
food so that everyone can stay
healthy and also, they eat less
outside.
Also, they can make
their involvement in some
sessions or trainings such as
yoga, gym and many more so
that their body can stay fit.
There are various risks
associated with obesity.
During early childhood,
diagnosis of obesity can
actually cause various
complications in the future. IT
is because different risk factors
are associated with it such as
shortness of breathing, sleep
and many more. Therefore,
proper measures can be
involved in order to minimize
the risk of obesity and factors
associated with it.
the children from getting
prevented from obesity (Mead
and et.al., 2016). Behaviour
modifications also play a
major and important role. It
means that the parents and
guardians of children can set
some short term goals for
making effective changes in
children's lifestyle. Also, by
these means, they can achieve
all goals and thus, reducing the
risk of obesity in children's
lifestyle. Thus, they can enjoy
a healthier as well as happier
lifestyle. It is because;
prevention of obesity in
children means prevention of
complications that are
associated with obesity.
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Conclusion
From the above report it is concluded that in UK obesity is increasing within the children
who belong the age of 5-11 and it can seriously cause high risk to them. The main goal of poster
is to capture the attention of children’s so that the can understand negative impact of obesity on
their health and try to overcome them. Involvement of parents is high as because children are
mostly dependent on them. further it is concluded that government has made various policies
related to health promotion in UK that can help in promoting healthier life.
Recommendation
 In order overcome Obesity health problem in children government can focus on creating
awareness among parents and make them aware of its health risk.
 Further in school children’s should be more aware about health related risk which can
occur due to obesity and the way it can be avoided, so that they become more health
conscious.
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Appendix
Figure 1: The vicious cycle of childhood obesity
(Source: Tan, 2016 )
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