Concepts and Principles of Modern Public Health for Obesity Intervention

Public Health

Table of contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
The concepts and principles of modern public health that underpin the initiative of obesity.....3
The key elements of this public health intervention and evaluation...........................................6
Evidence that supports the intervention and if the intervention could be replicated in the
neighbouring country...................................................................................................................8
Ways to evaluate a public health intervention.............................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
The report is about the public health. It discusses about the concepts and principles of the
modern public health that underpin the initiatives of the obesity taken by the UK government.
The public health can be defined as the science and art for preventing the disease and the
prolongation of life. The public sector equity duties and the integrated tools and techniques for
reducing the health inequalities and embedding qualities are discussed in the report. The new
obesity strategy launched by the government of UK is discussed. The report discuss about the
key elements of the public health intervention as well as its evaluation. The evidences that are
supporting the intervention of the UK government are discussed and the discussion is done for
the replication of the intervention in the neighbouring country. The ways of evaluating the public
health intervention is discussed in the report and the way by which the given intervention can be
evaluated is discussed.
MAIN BODY
The concepts and principles of modern public health that underpin the initiative of obesity
The science and art of preventing the disease is referred to as the public health, along
with the prolongation of life. The quality of life is improved through informed and organised
efforts of the organisations, communities and societies. The determinants of the health in the
population are analysed and the basis for the public health are the threats that are faced by them.
The concept of health takes the psychological, physical and social well-being. The public health
can be explained as the interdisciplinary field. For example biostatistics, management of health
services, epidemiology and social sciences are relevant to each other. The sub important field in
the public health are community health, mental health, public policy, environmental health,
behaviour health, and health politic, health economics, and gender issues, sexual and
reproductive health (Svalastog and et.al, 2017). The health care system overall, public health,
primary, tertiary and secondary care.
The implementation of the public health is done through surveillance of cases, promotion of the
health behaviours as well as with the health indicators. The common public health initiative
includes promotion for the delivery of vaccines, smoking cessation, increasing healthcare
accessibility, hand-washing, suicide prevention, breast feeding and for controlling the sexually
transmitted diseases the distribution of condoms.

The principles of public health on which the practise is based upon are equity, inclusiveness,
fairness, effectiveness, evidence-based practise and empowerment. It is evident that societies
having equity to access quality education along with the wealth, food, healthcare and housing
possess the better health in the social gradient. The people at every level can get benefited with
the equity as the trust level among the innovation, communities as well as social mobility is
linked size of the socioeconomic gap in the country (Spike, 2018). This makes it clear that the
better chances of the life result in better health as well as the low living conditions are the key
factor for leading the poor health and reduction in the health inequalities has economic benefit
along with the ideological aim.
The inclusiveness in the public health refers to the right of the people for living standard
lives that are adequate in well-being and health of the person, his family and have the medical
care. Fairness in the public health means all the individuals in the healthcare are treated with the
equal dignity and care, no one at the health care should face any discrimination for the treatment.
Effectiveness of the care given at the health care is necessary and this involves better care from
the health care bodies and provides the treatment that is effective for the patient. The evidence-
based practices are encouraged in the health care as they are more dependable for the best
outcome in the healthcare and have many benefits for following the evidence-based practise.
The public sector equity duties
Under the section 149 of the Equity Act, the public bodies are required to consider all the
individuals while carrying out their daily work of in delivering the services, shaping policy and
regarding the employees under them. The public bodies need to eliminate the discrimination,
encourage good relations within the people and promote the equality in the opportunities when
carrying out the activities. The equality Duty helps in good decision making, help in making the
public bodies understanding the effect of their activities to the people thus, this makes the
services as well as the policies accessible and appropriate for all along with meeting the needs of
different people. When the public bodies are able to understand the impact of their activities in
ways like how the inclusive public services are capable of supporting as well as opening the
different opportunities for the people then they can be more efficient and effective at their duty
(Caperchione, Demirag and Grossi, 2017). The Equality duty helps the public bodies in
delivering the objectives of government for the public services. The Equality Act describes that
having the advancement in the equality involves: