Public Health Intervention: Cultural Practices, Evaluation and Ethical Considerations

Public Health

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Cultural practices in England which is supporting and creating hindrance to intervention-.......3
Qualitative and Quantitative evaluation of intervention-.............................................................6
Evaluate the ethical consideration that could arise from the delivery of this intervention.
Outline 2 ways the intervention could be of benefit to global health and 2 ways the providers
could be held accountable?........................................................................................................10
Discussing the effectiveness and efficiency of the intervention will be determined:................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................15

INTRODUCTION
Public Health can be defined as the art or science for preventing the diseases, prolonging life as
well as helps them in promoting the health through the organized efforts which are made by the
society. The public health encourages the welfare for the overall population, considers there
safety and protection from spreading of any infectious disease as well as environmental diseases
which is beneficial for the population. The areas which comes under the public health are such as
chronic disease, the science of ageing, disaster response, refugee health, tobacco control, injury
prevention and many more (Peres and et.al., 2019). There are many interventions which has been
took by public health in England and one of them is The Smoking Ban. This intervention has
helped much in reducing the consumption of the cigarettes by the people in England. The
smoking has been considered as the leading cause of the preventable death as well as it is the
image for the health inequalities. This report will discuss the cultural practices which is
supporting and creating hindrance to the intervention as well as qualitative and quantitative
evaluation. Along with this, ethical considerations which could be raised by delivery of
intervention and the effectiveness of the intervention in country.
MAIN BODY
Cultural practices in England which is supporting and creating hindrance to intervention-
The cultural practices has very large impacts on the interventions for any such things
which are creating the health inequalities and worries for the people. The influence of the culture
on the health is very broad as it highly affects the perceptions and opinions of health, death,
illness as well as the beliefs for the causes of the diseases, approaches of health promotion,
experience of illness and pain as well as the forms of the treatments which are preferred by the

patients. There are various levels at which the culture impacts the health involves
communications and interactions with the nurses and the doctors, outcomes of healthcare, health
disparities as well as the experience of illness. For example, some culture has the belief that the
illness is will of high power and other may be much unwilling to receive the healthcare ( Dugdale
and et.al., 2019).
The cultural practices of the England which can influence the intervention are such as
Morris Dancing in England and many more. The first thing which is considered in relation to the
culture and smoking is the smoking rates in overall world. 19.9% of the men in UK consume
cigarettes as the main cause of the smoking and the culture is the religion and every religion has
its own cultural practices. After the intervention of the smoking ban has implemented in year
2007, the number of the smokers in UK was decreased to 15% in year 2019. The decision of the
person who is smoking is largely determined by the culture of individual (Bonakdari, Pelletier
and Martel-Pelletier, 2020).
The cultural practices which are supporting the smoking ban are such as-
Governance and leadership:
The government of the UK has set many of the plans and ambitions for England which
enable them to create the awareness of the smoking in among the people for making smoke free
by year 2030. The ASH has published the roadmap for the smoke free England and this has been
promoted by the 74 organisations as well as the 604 individuals. The government of UK has
adopted the Road map's recommendations which will help them in controlling the consumption
of the cigarettes in England. The government brought many of the policies which has helped in
effectively working of The smoking ban interventions in England. The government of UK has
taken many number of the measures which includes advertising for the ban, restrictions on the
smoking at the public places as well as the workplaces, increased the taxations on such products
and many more (Anyanwu and et.al., 2018). This has highly contributed towards supporting the
smoking ban intervention in England.
After seeing the health impacts of the smoking on the public health, it became very
necessary for the health department to take the action against it. The culture practices which were
then followed by the UK government has helped the people to stop the consumption of cigarettes
and this has highly contributed towards helping the population of England to stop smoking. The