Public Health

Public Health
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
1. Discuss the concepts and principles of modern public health that underpin the intervention
you have chosen...........................................................................................................................3
2. Identify and explain the key elements of this public health intervention and how they would
be evaluated.................................................................................................................................8
3. Review the evidence that supports this intervention and determine if the intervention is
considered effective or not...........................................................................................................9
4 Describe one evaluation that has been carried out on this intervention and discuss
recommendations for the invention from this evaluation..........................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTION
Public health is referred as the science of protecting safety as well as enhancing health of
communities or groups by policy making, education, injury prevention and research for disease.
The public health includes application of different disciplines including public policy,
anthropology, psychology sociology, medicine, biology and others. Public health is essential
because of prolonging life (Bernal, Cummins, and Gasparrini, 2017). By prevention of health
problems, people can live healthy for longer time. Today, people are suffering from various
health issues among which poor mental health in young people is one of the major issue in
United Kingdom. The common mental health issues occur in young people includes depression
and anxiety. In order to address this health concern, a public health intervention is identified in
this project.
Cognitive behavioral therapy is taken into consideration to address the health issue in young
people effectively. Apart from this, this report discusses about principles and concepts of modern
public health which underpin the intervention. it also determines key elements of public health
intervention and the way they will be evaluated. In addition to this, the effectiveness of
intervention is reviewed and the evidence that support the intervention is provided. At last, an
evaluation which has been performed on the intervention and recommendations for invention
from evaluation are discussed in the report (Bousema, and et. al., 2014).
MAIN BODY
1. Discuss the concepts and principles of modern public health that underpin the intervention you
have chosen
Public health has been characterized as the science of preventing disease, improving life
quality and prolonging life by organised efforts as well as informed choices of organisations,
communities, society and individuals. The main basis of public health is analysing the health
determinants of population along with the threats it faces. It is an interdisciplinary area of study
that includes various fields including community health, mental health, public policy, health
economics, environmental health, occupational safety, health education etc. The main purpose of
public health is to enhance the life quality by treatment and prevention of disease, involving
mental health . By surveillance of cases, health indicators and promotion of healthy behaviours,
the quality of life is improved. (Brownson, Baker, Deshpande and Gillespie, 2017). The modern
public health practices need multi-disciplinary teams of professionals and public health workers.
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These might involve biostatisticians, public health nurses, economist, epidemiologists, data
managers, sociologists, medical microbiologists, physician assistants, geneticists, midwives and
physicians. According to the need, health specialists are called on. Today, Mental health is one
of the major issue among people and large number of youths who are aged between 18 to 25 are
suffering from issues like anxiety and depression. According to the research, the prevalence of
any mental illness was found highest among adults. In year 2017, a survey performed on mental
health of children and young individuals in England found that around 12.5 percent of people
aged between 5 to 19 years had at least one mental disorder. A slight increase is also seen in the
prevalence of mental health issues (Campion and Knapp, 2018).
In improving public health, a very crucial role is played by health professionals. They
monitor status of health of community to determine potential issues, diagnose and investigate
them, educate, inform and empower people, develop plans and policies to support community
health efforts, enforce regulations and laws, link individuals to required personal health services,
evaluate accessibility, effectiveness as well as quality of health services and research new
innovative solutions to the health issues. The public health professionals highly contribute to
improving the health of communities.
A state of complete mental, physical and social wellbeing is termed as health. It is a
resource to support function of individual in wider society instead of an end in itself. Mental
health is the social, psychological and emotional well-being of a person. It is crucial as physical
health and is a part of active lifestyle (Forsman, and et. al., 2014). Good mental health relies on
the ability of a person to enjoy life, feel safe and secure, balance different components of life like
finances and family, bounce back after complex experiences, achieve their full potential. Modern
public health is related to addressing health determinants across population. It is a contemporary
execution of wider range of evidence based technological, scientific and management systems
executing measures to enhance the health of population. Modern public health is an integrated
approach to promote and protect health status of society and individuals. Mental health is critical
to public health and the wellbeing is profoundly crucial to the ability to cope up with ups and
downs of life and quality of life. It is protective against unhealthy life styles, social inequalities
and physical illness. In order to promote mental wellbeing as well as preventing mental illness,
there are various evidence based approaches (Frumkin, 2016).
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