Nursing Assignment: Public Health And Health Promotion
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Nursing Assignment: Public Health And Health Promotion
Added on 2020-05-28
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PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH PROMOTIONDiabetesName of the Student:Name of the University:Author Note:
IntroductionPublic health concern is defined as the method to protect or save and improvethe quality of health of different communities using education, research for diseases,interventions for preventing injuries and making different policies. There are severalissues that the world is currently facing including malnutrition, overweight, excessiveusage of tobacco, HIV/AIDS, mental health, violence, environmental quality and so on.Therefore, the need of public health issues to be discussed in public forum has becomemore important and crucial (Sørensenet al. 2012). Diabetes is one of the major publichealth problem worldwide and according to the current global estimates there are morethan 415 million people in the world, who are suffering from diabetes and the results areestimated to escalate 600 million mark by the Year 2040. Furthermore, according to thecurrent Global estimates 200 million people with diabetes are still under diagnosed dueto their mild asymptomatic nature of the disease. Diabetes is a physiological condition inwhich the metabolic functionality of the body gets affected and the blood glucose levelbecomes Ultra-high (Bloom et al. 2012). Two of the very common symptoms of thediabetes mellitus includes frequent urination increased hunger, thirst, and if the diseaseremains under treated can cause many crucial complications to the body, which canlead to cardiovascular diseases, chronic kidney diseases and so on. According to thedata of the UK Government diabetes, Diabetes is one of the fastest growing publichealth concern in European Union. From the 1996, the number of people affected withdiabetes has doubled and according to the estimation of the UK Government, thenumber is going to cross the 5 million mark in near future. This assignment is going todiscuss this Public Health issue, theoretical, Global and policy analysis in details in thecontext of the United Kingdom. Firstly, the public health issue that is diabetes will bediscussed and rationale for selecting this public health policy issue will be given.Further, theoretical analysis will include the way Public health policy for diabetesbecomes affected due to the issues of gender. Furthermore, how the theoreticalconcept is considered or overlooked within the relevant policy documents will bediscussed. Finally, in the policy analysis a coherent discussion of policy documents willbe discussed with evidences from across the level of actions such as international
national and local. For the local evidences about diabetes, the area of HounslowBorough will be taken. Statistical analysis Global analysis Global burden of diabetes can be estimated from the data of the World HealthOrganization, which states that more than 422 million people in the world were sufferingfrom diabetes in the year 2014 compared to 108 million people in 1980. It can be easilyestimated from the statistics that the number of people affected with diabetes has beendouble since 1980 and the adult population has been risen from 4.7% to 8.5% (WorldHealth Organization 2018). This data of diabetes also increases the risk factor for otherassociated diseases such as obesity or overweight. World Health Organization alsoreported the fact that the rise in diabetes prevalence has been seen in low or middle-income countries then the high-income countries. More than 1.5 million people weredied in the year 2015 due to diabetes and an additional 2.2 million people were diedbecause of cardiovascular diseases caused by diabetes (WHO facts 2018). Within this,majority of the people were affected with type 2 diabetes, which used to occur entirelyamong adults but now occurs in children's too. there are several direct or indirect impactdiabetes causes on the national economy and according to one study, from the year2011 to 2013 there are many countries who will lost the GDP worldwide duty both directand indirect costs of diabetes which is estimated in US dollar 1.73 trillion (World HealthOrganization 2018). The World Health Organization has started wh0 diabetes programto prevent diabetes how to minimize its complications and increase the quality of thelife. The core functions of the WHO include promotion and contribution to thesurveillance of diabetes complications and its risk factors. They also want to contributein building capacity for the prevention and control of diabetes by increasing awarenessindifferent Global Public Health campaigns.National analysis According to the data from the medical research Council of United Kingdom,there are more than 3.9 million people living with diabetes in UK and every 1 in 16
people in UK has been affected with diabetes. Since 1996, the number of peopleaffected with diabetes has been doubled and according to the estimation, by the year2025 more than 5 million people will be affected with diabetes in United Kingdom (UKDiabetes facts 2018). Therefore, the UK government has set up a national serviceFramework (NSF), a program, which was established to improve services by setting upseveral national standards to accelerate the service quality and tackle vulnerablesituations of care. Every NSF setup helps to set national standards, works to identifydifferent interventions and actions that is going to help healthcare professionals to meetthose standards. Through these NHS service Framework the UK Government helps tocreate different regulations that will be implemented in local regions of the UnitedKingdom to spread awareness and to prevent diabetes from occurring in people havinglower social economic status (UK Government 2018). The NHS and its partnerorganizations are reviewing local strategies for improving their diet nutrition, increasephysical activity and reduce overweight and obesity and this way they are going to helppeople combating diabetes. They are also providing different health professionals inlocal premises with information about the risk factor for diabetes and the waymodification of those risk factors can help in preventing diabetes. The UK Governmenthas set up 12th standards under this NHS framework to help people with diabetes andall the provinces or states are determined to use these NHS policies for diabetes-affected people (National Diabetes Treatment and Care Programme 2018). Local policy analysis for diabetes (Hounslow Borough)Hounslow borough is one of the high ethnic and diversified places of London, UK andmajority of the population is British. The census of this region demonstrated that therewere 254,000 people used to live in 2011 and the population increased by 20 percentsince 2001(Borough of Hounslow 2018). According to the data from Urbs.London(2018), Hounslow Borough is one of the highest diabetes rated area in the capital. Thewebsite also estimated that the number would increase by 8.915% in next 20 years.Therefore, the local Health Services and the public health service of England are underhigh pressure. According to the demographics of the area there are 20984 peopleaffected with diabetes. The primary factor, which works as inducer for type 2 diabetes
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