Public Health Portfolio: A Comprehensive Overview, Sem 2, 2018

This public health portfolio presents a comprehensive overview of ten critical public health issues. The portfolio begins by highlighting the importance of access to clean water, emphasizing its role in preventing disease and promoting overall health. It then explores the significance of healthy food and diet in maintaining well-being. The report also covers the benefits of reusable bags for environmental protection, the impact of quality housing on health, and the need for accessible parks and green spaces. Furthermore, it addresses the dangers of alcohol and drug addiction, the importance of road safety, and the detrimental effects of tobacco use and excessive sugar intake. Finally, the portfolio concludes with a discussion on the significance of access to healthcare services for ensuring health equity. Each topic is supported by descriptions, checklists, and relevant references, providing a well-rounded perspective on public health challenges and solutions.

Running head: Public health 1
Public health portfolio
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Introduction
Public health is the science and speciality of arranging sorted out endeavours and
counteracting sickness, advancing life and advancing health through instructive choices of
society, associations, public and private networks, and people. Public health is responsible for
everything from clean water and health to safe work environments; Preventing the spread of
communicable diseases and keeping chronic sicknesses from enhancing prenatal nourishment
and by reducing the car crashes to design quality health frameworks. Association with national
and regional governments, public health researchers react to some other risk to natural disaster,
plagues, and the health of the populace. Furthermore, when we are sick, at that point medication
is vital for every one of us, while public health benefits everybody, young and old, rich and poor,
healthy and unhealthy, a great many individuals, and in manners that Ensure health, none of us
can achieve alone. In this paper, we will discuss the 10 public health photographs that will cover
the whole assignment.

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Photo 1 Title: Access to clean water
Photo 1 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? Y
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before
taking this photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2,
2018” logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 1
Actions to enhance the water, sanitation and cleanliness interface with each other to
promote comprehensive health. Access to neatness, for example, common toilets, keeps
contamination of drinking water away from human waste and reduces the rate of disease.
Innovative public health measures are not important: Safe washing with drinking cleanser and
hand washing and drinking water are high-affect practices. Management of Environment
effectively decreases the rate of malaria and different diseases spread through insects and hence
result in prevention of death. These measures incorporate dispensing with housing-, for example,
standing water - for mosquitos’ reproduction, and doors and windows for protection against
mosquitoes [1].
This is the reason that clean water is an essential part of Public Health Issues.
Photo 2 Title: Access to Healthy food
Photo 2 Checklist:

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Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? Y
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking
this photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2,
2018” logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 2
A decent diet is vital for our health and can assist us in experiencing our best - yet the
question is what is a decent diet? Aside from breastfeeding, as food for the kids, any diet
contains all the basic supplements that require the body to remain healthy and work
appropriately. Hence, our diet comprises of a variety of foods, so our bodies can help in getting
an extensive variety of fundamental supplements. It is represented by the healthy food model. A
healthy diet should give us the appropriate sum (calories or kilojoules) from foods and drinks to
keep up vitality adjust. This is the reason a healthy is an important part of public health issues
[2].
Photo 3 Title: Reusable bags - as in protecting the planet
Photo 3 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? Y
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking
this photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2,
2018” logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 3

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Eco-friendly reusable bags come in full range of sizes, prints and designs, and can be
made with numerous materials and textures. Inflexible and sharp, reusable sacks can likewise be
durable embellishments on them in case that you need to demonstrate your ecological discretion
on exit. Some major designers are now introducing reusable toy bags and purses made of
recycled or reused material as a feature of their design accumulation. A few evaluations
demonstrate that purchasing an arrangement of re-usable shopping packs and utilizing them each
time amid the buy, can kill the transfer of 20,000 expendable plastic sacks. In case you discover
quality attire shopping sacks, you will have the capacity to reuse them for quite a long time to
come. To make plastic shopping packs, non-renewable energy sources, cutting trees and now
and again, need to utilize out of linework rehearses. Reusable sacks spare both widely varied
vegetation and help diminish the emanations of hazardous ozone-harming gases [3].
Photo 4 Title: Housing - we have access to quality housing
Photo 4 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? N
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking
this photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2,
2018” logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 4
Studies have similarly demonstrated that low-wage neighbours and uneven quantities of
individuals living in poor housing circumstances originate from immigrants and minority
communities. In a case that we can enhance availability to moderate, quality housing, at that

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point we might have the capacity to lessen the destructive impacts segments lodging can be on
the lives of individuals. The absence of affordable housing is additionally connected to poor
nourishment. In a case, that poor families are forced to change over many of their assets to
shield, which leaves less pay for sustenance, which results in a nutritious decrease. Housing is
appeared to influence the psychological well-being of a man. For instance, moisture, shape, and
cool indoor conditions have been related to nervousness and dejection. Aside from this, it is
identified with conduct issues between kids living in temporary housing and housing [4].
Photo 5 Title: Parks - we have access to parks and shade covers to protect us
Photo 5 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? N
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking
this photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2,
2018” logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 5
Around 80 per cent of the Australian populace lives in urban zones. Parks of all sizes
assume an essential part in protecting and supporting sound environments. A system of parks and
open spaces, which incorporates ensured characteristic terrains, ecological stores, wetlands and
other green zones, are essential for giving sound lodging to people, untamed life and plants in
these private areas.

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Natural landscapes are imperative for safeguarding the provincial ecosystems among the
developing urban communities [5].
Photo 6 Title: Addiction to alcohol and drugs
Photo 6 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? N
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking this
photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2, 2018”
logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 6
Liquor (otherwise called ethanol) has many effects on health. Minor impacts of liquor
utilization incorporate dehydration and drug addiction. Major impacts of liquor utilization
incorporate changes in liver and mind and liquor digestion. Liquor intoxication influences the
cerebrum, which causes dizziness, slurred speech and delayed responses. Liquor empowers
insulin creation, which speeds glucose digestion and can result in low glucose, which can cause
irritation and “passing out” for diabetes. A World Health Organization report of 2014 found that
harmful liquor utilization consumed 3.3 million every year a year. Negative undertakings are
identified with the measure of security devoured by safe securities [6].
Photo 7 Title: Road Safety
Photo 7 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? N

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2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking
this photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2,
2018” logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 7
Road Traffic Accidents (RTA) have risen as a critical public health issue, which should be
handled with multi-disciplinary methodologies. RTA deaths and injuries inclinations are getting
to be unsafe in countries everywhere throughout the world. The number of inefficient and fatal
road mishaps is expanding day by day and this is the real challenge related to public health issues
for the agencies to prevent this. The way to deal with executing the principles and directions
accessible to anticipate street mishaps is regularly insufficient and pitiful. Mindfulness creation,
strict execution of activity rules, and logical designing estimates require time to stop this public
health disaster [7].
Photo 8 Title: Tobacco Use
Photo 8 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? Y
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking
this photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2,
2018” logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 8
Smoking and tobacco lead to illness and inefficiency and harms relatively all parts of the
body. More than 16 million Australians are living with smoking problems. From everyone who
used to die because of smoking, minimum of 30 individuals live with genuine smoking-related
sickness. Smoking causes heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, lung problems, and chronic

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obstructive pneumonic ailment (COPD), including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Smoking
additionally builds the danger of tuberculosis, immune system issues, and certain eye disease and
rheumatoid arthritis. [8] [8] [8]
Photo 9 Title: Soft drinks/ sugar intake - how it affects obesity
Photo 9 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? Y
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking this
photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2, 2018”
logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 9
Two out of three grown-ups and one of every three youngsters are overweight or obese,
and the nation spends $ 190 billion yearly in treating health-related health conditions. The rising
utilization of sugary beverages has been a major supporter of the obesity epidemic. A typical 20-
oz soda pop contains 15 to 18 teaspoons of sugar and 240 calories. A 64-oz cola drink can
contain 700 calories. Individuals who drink this " liquid candy" don't feel totally like they have
eaten similar calories from strong sustenance and don't remunerate by eating less. As per studies
were done following 40,000 men for two decades, the individuals who have taken the normal of
sugary beverages day by day, have a 20% higher danger of heart assault or demise than heart
assaults contrasted with sugary beverages. (23) In a related report in ladies, there was a
comparable sugar drink- heart illness interface found. A 22-year investigation of 80,000 ladies
found that contrasted with the individuals who had sugars in the day, there was 75% more danger
of arthritis, who had occasionally drink. Specialists discovered similarly high hazard in men [9].

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Photo 10 Title: Access to health care
Photo 10 Checklist:
Yes No
1. Does the photo exclude people? Y
2. Did I take this photograph myself? N
Did I consider my safety before taking
this photograph?
Y
Is the “This is Public Health Sem 2,
2018” logo visible in this photograph?
Y
Description of Photo 10
Access to complete, quality health mind services is critical for advancing and looking
after health, averting and overseeing disease, lessening pointless inefficiency and sudden
passing, and accepting health value for all Australians. Access to health spotlights on the 3 parts
of access to health care: health services, insurance coverage, and opportuneness of care. While
considering access to health care, it is essential to incorporate solutions with oral health care and
fundamental professionally prescribed prescriptions. The privilege to health implies that
everybody has the privilege to the most noteworthy feasible standard of physical and emotional
well-being, including access to every single medical administration, tidiness, satisfactory food,
better than average lodging, healthy working conditions and clean environment [10].
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