Public Health Concern: HIV - Analysis, Policy, Interventions, and Nurse Role

This report discusses the analysis of HIV in a specific UK location, critical examination of relevant health policy, interventions used for managing HIV, and the nurse role as a health promoter and educator. There is also a discussion about the health belief model that can be applied to the nurse role as a health promoter or health educator.

Public health concern HIV

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
An analysis of the chosen public health concern (HIV)............................................................3
Critical examination of the relevant health policy and its application to the chosen public
health concern (HIV)..................................................................................................................4
How this policy helps to effectively utilize resources to generate the best value /benefits for
the end-user.................................................................................................................................4
Interventions used for managing the chosen public health concern (HIV)................................4
Analysis of the adult role as the health educator and health promoter within an
interprofessional team.................................................................................................................5
Evaluate how the health promotion theories/models can be applied into nurse role as a health
educator and health promoter......................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Public health refers to the science and art of preventing disease-promoting health and
prolonging life through organized efforts. It also informs choices of society, private
communities, public communities, organizations, and individuals. There is much public health
concern associated with a large number of population health. This may include food safety, heart
disease, physical activity, HIV, and other prescription drug overdoses. In many public health
concerns, HIV is one of the main public health concerns for the whole world. This is a major
global public health issue which have claimed 36.3 million lives so far. There is still no cure for
HIV infection. In this report, there is a discussion about the analysis of HIV in a specific UK
location (Brent). This includes prevalence, impact and cost burden. There is also a critical
examination of relevant health policy and its application for HIV. This may consist of objective
policy, taken steps, impact, effectiveness, and pitfalls (Chappell et. al., 2019). There is also a
discussion about the explanation of health economics in which policy help to utilize all the
resources effectively for generating benefit for the end-users. It also includes intervention for
managing HIV, which includes the purpose of the intervention, how it helps in managing HIV,
and the theoretical base and critical evaluation to challenge. The effectiveness of chosen
intervention in managing HIV to the adult population. There is also discussion about the analysis
of adult role as a health educator and health promoter within an interprofessional team. This
report also includes an evaluation of health promotion theory that should be applied in the nurse
role as health promoter and health educator (El Howati et. al., 2018).
MAIN BODY
An analysis of the chosen public health concern (HIV)
There is a high prevalence of HIV in Brent, which includes 1.3 per thousand people The
health protection agency estimated that 27% of people do not have their status regarding HIV
positive. 817 Brent resident accessing health care services related to HIV. There is a high impact
of HIV within Brent, which creates an unusual profile of the HIV-positive resident where the
majority of the cases are the product of sex between women and men.
HIV destroys CD4 cells, generally called T cells or helper cells, that are critical for the
immune system. This gradually creates the body and natural defense. Symptoms and signs can be
occurring (Hoornenborg and et. al., 2020).

There is high cost burden to fight against the HIV and its treatment on the people of
Brent. This creates a negative impact on family who have patient of HIV and create difficulty in
getting better management to improve the health of individuals.
Ccritical examination of the relevant health policy and its application to the chosen public health
concern (HIV)
HIV/AIDS workplace policy is a relevant public health policy related to HIV, a chosen
public health concern. It has the objective to prevent and provide care and support for
addresssing the health concern at the workplace and improve non-discrimination in employment,
Ssocial dialogues, prevention, workplace issues, gender equality, screening and confidentiality.
Eemployee should wish to be anonymous where they should not be get revealed by the
employer. In this, there is a step that there should not be any exclusion from employment or
work benefit when an individual with HIV (Armoon et. al., 2018). This policy is effective and
provide better benefit to the eemployees at the workplace to work effectively without any
discrimination.
How this policy helps to effectively utilize resources to generate the best value /benefits for the
end-user
Policy help take effectively utilize the resources for generating benefit to the end-user.
HIV/AIDS workplace policy can be highly effective and can help in utilizing resources for
providing higher benefit to employees at their workplace to get protected from any type of
discrimination. In this, through not getting revealed at the workplace can allow every individual
to stay at their workplace effectively without getting any type of discrimination or any workplace
problem. That should not negatively impact the job role and people will not get any
discrimination during work (Mahmood, 2020).
Interventions used for managing the chosen public health concern (HIV)
Intervention 1
Behavioral intervention is highly effective and help to reduce the risk of HIV
transmission by addressing some risky behavior. This allows to prevent the risk of HIV and help
manage it more effectively (Benton and et. al., 2021). The theoretical base of this intervention is
behavioral, which allows changing individual behavior through sex education program to reduce

discrimination and stigma and counseling, which can be highly effective to change individual
behavior.
There is higher effectiveness of this behavioral intervention to reduce the risk of HIV
transmission through the sex education. This allows individuals to learn about the potential risk
of unsafe sex that can lead to the risk of HIV transmission. This is effective and ensures adult to
take care through using behavioral intervention.
Intervention 2
Biomedical intervention includes medical and clinical approaches that are highly
effective in reducing HIV transmission (Ongaga et. al., 2018). This includes using condoms,
treatment, needle exchange, and testing, which can help reduce the risk of HIV transmission by
up to 60% (Nam et et. al., 2018).
It can help in managing HIV through using different methods, which can help to provide
safe sex. There is a need to use condoms, get treatment, time to time testing and precaution from
needle exchanges.
The theoretical base of this intervention is health promotion that allows to learn about the
use of protection and take different measures that can help in HIV intervention (Skovdal, 2019).
There is higher effectiveness of using a condom to reduce the risk of HIV and help to
manage HIV within the adult population.
Analysis of the adult role as the health educator and health promoter within an interprofessional
team
Health educators and help promoters are highly effective working as an interprofessional
team. They can promote sex education and safety from getting any sexual infection like HIV.
Adults can get properly educated and use preventive measures that can help reduce the risk of
HIV. Here, adult role play can get proper education and should be delivered using
interprofessional teamwork. This can allow health promoters and health educators to share the
information with adults (Kelly, 2019). The interprofessional team can work together with health
promoters and health educators and share their information to promote sex education that can
help create awareness among adults. This can be helpful to reduce the risk of HIV and its
increasing cases.

Evaluate how the health promotion theories/models can be applied into nurse role as a health
educator and health promoter
Tannahill health promotion model can be appropriate for ensuring about the health promotion
among people. This model includes the three different aspect which inlcudees prevention,
positive health education and health protection (Linares and et. al., 2020). Using model and their
aspect can allow to reduce the risk of getting any infection, which can lead to a high impact on
their health. Through using the prevention method, it can help in preventing any cases of getting
diseases. Positive health education can create an impact on better delivery of education for
effective prevention through any diseases (Kumanyika and et. al., 2019). The health belief model
can be applied in the nurse role as a health promoter and health educator where a person believes
within personal behavior to get rid of disease or illness. This can be highly effective and can
allow recommending health behavior or action to help adopt pattern behavior to reduce the risk
of getting HIV (Santini et. al., 2021). This can be effective and change individual attitudes and
behavior to protect from exposure to HIV infection. The health belief model can be applied in to
nurse role, which can help to promote sex education within adult because they are the one who
are meeting with a large population during their practice. This can help increase awareness
regarding education, which can effectively reduce the risk of HIV (Wells and et. al., 2021).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that HIV is an infection that needs to be
taken into consideration to reduce the spread of health issues within a large population. There is
different policy that has been made to implement and reduce the risk of increasing case of HIV.
Various interventions can be effective and help in reducing and managing risk of HIV. In this
report, there is a discussion about the public health concern, which includes HIV as a public
health concern. There is also a discussion about the critical examination of relevant health policy,
including HIV/AIDS workplace policy. There is also a discussion about the intervention which
can be used for managing HIV. In this report, there is a discussion about adult role as the health
promoter and educator within an interprofessional team. There is also a discussion about the
health belief model that can be applied to the nurse role as a health promoter or health educator.

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