Public Health: Strategies, Epidemiology, and Health Promotion Theories

This presentation covers the basics of public health, including disease and health inequalities. It then delves into strategies for promoting and enhancing public health, the role of epidemiology and demographics in public health practice, and health promotion theories and approaches.

Public health

Table of Contents
 Introduction
 Disease along with ill health along with principles which are behind the inequalities in
health
 Analysing strategies which can promote along with enhance health
 Analysing epidemiology role along with demographics for public health practice
 Evaluating theories along with approaches of health promotions related with issue of
health within work placement or professional roles
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
 Public health refers to the discipline of improving and protecting health or
persons along with their societies.
 It also includes the art along with science of preventing disease which can
promoting health to the society.
 This is the one that is effective and lead to create high impact on large population
health.
 Public health has the role to provide effective infrastructure of local public health
along with healthy communities promotion along with healthy behaviour.

Disease along with ill health along with principles
behind health inequalities
 Disease refers to the illness or sickness which are generally characterised by
specific symptoms or signs. There are large number of disease which can lead to
create ill health to individual where individual is not able to get well and face
various difficulty in dealing with life. This include diabetes, depression, anxiety,
lupus, yeast infection, haemorrhoid, shingles, psoriasis and others. These have
some sing and symptom which can allow healthcare professional to ensure about
the presence of disease (Ekmen and et. al., 2021).

Different disease
 Diabetes
 Depression
 Anxiety
 Psoriasis

Health inequality
 Health inequality refers to the unjust along with avoidable differences within people health
in the large population that can lead to create high negative
 There are various social determinants of health which includes following.
 Income and social status
 Education and literacy
 Physical environment
 Healthy behaviour
 Access to healthcare services
 Impact on the population health.

Analysing promotional strategies along with enhance
health
 Health promotion is a practice involving engagement of groups and communities into making
decisions for the betterment of their health and quality of life. It basically aims at teaching
people how to control and minimise the fluctuations in their health. Promotion of health is
based on 5 principles namely-
 Positive health concept
 Participation along with involvement
 Action & action competence
 Settings perspective
 Health Equity

Health promotion strategy
 Health promotion strategy refers to the process which can enable population to increase
control and improve their health.
STRATEGIES
 The following 5 strategies can be used for the implementation of Public Health-
 Making healthy public policies
 Providing better and effective environments
 Strengthening the community actions
 Developed personal skills
 Reorientation of health services

Analysing epidemiology role along with demographics
for the public health practice
 Epidemiology refers to the cornerstone
science within public health. This is the one
which can lead to create impact on the
health practices which uses study design
along with analysis to identify causes in
different situation, evaluates programs along
with policies and guides in intervention to
improve population health.

Epidemiology role
 Epidemiology can be effective in public health that can be used for the disease
surveillance that can help to identify about the hazard which are most important.
This can be helpful in identify the risk factors that may lead to provide better
health (Morgan and et. al., 2018). Here, violence and injury epidemiology is one
of the aim to address unintentional along with intentional injuries within the
lifespan. This can have high impact on the large population and should be
evaluated and analysed to reduce and take care of public health.
 There are about 7% of UK population are living with diabetes where about one
million of people are undiagnosed of type 2 diabetes.

Demographic role
 Demographic refers to the information which includes ethnicity, race, gender, age, education,
income, marital status, and employment. These include the survey question for getting
statistics. Public health demography refers to the statistical data which can be effective and
allow to deliver better application to the content along with methods which are associated
with health status along with health behaviour. This can be effective to understand the
structure of population to plan any public health intervention which may include mortality,
fertility and migration.
 UK is facing depression as the public health concern where one in five adults are
experiencing this mental health problem (Chan and et. al., 2020).

Evaluating theories along with health promotions
approach related to health issues in the work placement
or professional roles
 There is different theories and approaches which can be effective in the health
promotion and are related with health issues within profession roles or work
placement.

Theories for the health promotions
 There are some of the theories for the health promotions which are includes-
 Social cognitive theory
 Self-determination theory

Different approaches of health promotion
 There are different approaches of health promotion which includes
 Behavioural change
 Client centred approach

CONCLUSION
 From above discussion, it can be concluded that there is need to
understand the disease and ill health which can help to get
protection from health disease. In this, report, there is discussion
about the variety of strategy for enhancing and promoting health.
This also include the role of epidemiology along with
demographics within public health practice. This also includes the
theories along with health promotional approach in health issues.

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