Community Engagement: NHS Diabetes Prevention Program Analysis

This report delves into the critical role of community engagement in the UK's NHS Diabetes Prevention Program, which aims to raise awareness about type-2 diabetes and mitigate its future complications. It addresses the challenges encountered in community awareness campaigns, explores the program's strategies to overcome these hurdles, and highlights best practices, including effective communication and resource-based approaches. The report further discusses the benefits of stakeholder participation, the role of social media in fostering engagement, and the importance of socio-cultural integration and multiculturalism. It emphasizes the need for a forward-looking approach to educate community members on both internal and external factors influencing community development, ultimately concluding that community programs are essential for societal growth and require collaborative efforts and effective communication strategies for success.

COMMUNITY
ENGAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
NHS diabetes prevention program :............................................................................................3
Project for overcoming the Community challenges ...................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Community engagement is the joint program in which group of people contribute and
show their support for the development of the society. They work together to mitigate the issues
in community. People from same opinion from the different community group gathered up to
work for the betterment of the society also to free up the society from any issue (O’Neill, 2020).
NHS diabetes prevention program of UK is a joint commitment which aim to create a awareness
of type-2 diabetes in community also to reduce the future complication of the diabetes among
people. As type-2 diabetes causing eyesight loss of the people to reduce its compliance. This
report will address the community challenges which occur when creating a awareness, NHS
diabetes prevention program's approach to overcome the challenges occur in community, it
includes best practices being implied to resolve the communal issues, community engagement
principles. Report further describe about how stakeholder takes part in the communal programs
how they can benefit the program. What social media strategies should be implemented for the
project or to develop a relationship with the stakeholder to make invest in the project. Analysis
include relevant avenues for community participation to enable socio-cultural integration and
multi-cultural ism. Also include the community engagement practitioner to implement the
forward-looking approach to educate community members on internal and external factors that
influence community development.
MAIN BODY
NHS diabetes prevention program :
NHS diabetes prevention program of the UK helps the community to create an awareness
about type-2 diabetes. It aims to aware the people who have threat of type-2 diabetes. This
program is based on behavioural intervention for the people who have high blood glucose level.
Diabetes is a fatal disease it comes along with several diseases as people who suffer from
diabetes are at high risk type-2 diabetes can destroy the eyesight of person it damages the cells
of human which can also lead to heart attack or stroke (Delitheou, Bakogiannis and Kyriakidis,
2019). Therefore, this program works for creating awareness of diabetes in society or to reduce
the future complications of this disease.

Project for overcoming the Community challenges
Community challenges can be described as unemployment, lack of education among
society, violence, social crimes are the main issue in the community. To deal with all the issue
certain programs are introduced to overcome these challenges. In some areas people do not
pursue the education which create a illiteracy in them also their next generation remain excluded
from the education which can lead them to a disastrous life (Abma and et.al 2017). If they suffer
from any disease they don't know about it then it will be difficult for them to take treatment for
their disease. Lack of knowledge can be life loss threat to a person. Community issues can stop
the development of the society as people in such type of community does not know what to do
their life will become a mess. Lack of knowledge about everything can create a hazardous
situation for the people. Mental health problem are the common in community as people suffer
from depression and anxieties which enable them to promote crimes in the society or for some
people they also commit suicide. Therefore, these issues should be disclosed on wider picture so
that it can be improved to promote the development in the community as for each country their
growth is depended on their community for that purpose they need to introduce a project to
overcome all this challenges (Han, Jun and Kim, 2019).
Health related problems also drives in such type of community in which people suffer from fatal
diseases as HIV, mental health, diabetes etc. which can destroy the life of person. Therefore,
societal issue can also address the mental health problem in person, depression which increase
the crime and violence in the community. Around 3.4 Million people in England suffering from
type-2 diabetes and almost 200,000 new people diagnose every year. There are majorities of
people who admitted in hospital suffer from diabetes. Therefore, NHS diabetes prevention
program run to provide awareness through behavioural program in which they aware people to
maintain their healthy weight to reduce the risk of diabetes.
To overcome the challenges in community, the communal best strategies are-
To improve engagement or communication within the community:
The best way to create an awareness in community is reflected by the communication
skill because of that it allow to convey the message which enables the community people to take
part in communal program (Clarke and MacDonald, 2019). NHS diabetes prevention program
organize an awareness program to educate the community people about risk of diabetes they
teach them how people can reduce the risk of diabetes just by adapting healthy life schedule. For

that purpose they use pamphlets, articles, poster and choose the best words to deliver their
message in the society.
Attention to resource based opinion:
To overcome the challenges programs should focus on asset, resources within the
community, they also need to take cooperation of the people to enhance the opportunities for
community people. To aware them about health related factor so that they invest in making their
life as healthy life (Roberts and et.al 2017).
To involve in education and consideration:
Through program communal people can learn about their community issue, information
about the partner organization to enhance the opportunity for the development of their
community. NHS program aim to notify people about the life loss risk of type-2 diabetes their
target is to make people healthy by their behavioural program in which they guide people to
exercise more or to quit junk food to reduce the danger of diabetes.
Benefits of stakeholder participation
Stakeholder in community program provide an opportunity and resources for the better
development of the community (Briggs and et.al 2020). Those stakeholders can be community
people, government, organizations, business leaders etc. who invest their time and money for the
development of the society. It will also provide benefit to the organization as well as it help in
their decision-making process by considering local communal knowledge.
To develop relationship between stakeholder to enable them to take part in community
program
Role of stakeholder in community program is always important as they help by giving
their opinions, recommendation to develop a strategy to enhance the opportunities for communist
people. NHS program use social media platform to engage their stakeholder with their project as
their project is diabetes prevention program. It allows them to connect with many audiences and
organization. As social media provide a wider platform many people show their actively support
in any program therefore it is the best way to bring stakeholder to participate in project.
Take part in conversations: NHS takes part in those stakeholders' conversation where people
are already talking about their projects, they keep commenting positive so that they develop a
relationship with the people and enable them to take part in their project (Wright and et.al 2019).

Creating an effective profile on social media: To create a good profile can also attract the
stakeholder to part in the project. NHS provide a relevant content about their project on their
profile so that stakeholder got to know about what project is subjected to. As their project is
diabetes disease related then they add some information about their project how they work to
notify people about adverse effect of diabetes.
To support the program NHS should develop a interpersonal skill to interact with people.
Through different social media app they can target the people who are at the risk of diabetes or
suffering from the diabetes. To design a project they need a good leadership who can motivate
their people who are connected with their project they can create an awareness on Instagram,
Facebook by creating an attractive tag line so that people connect with them, they focus on how
they communicate or interact with the community so that they can completely accomplish their
project's aim. To create an awareness among people about their diabetes project they strategically
design their project with professionals who possessed good skills and implement them for the
success of their project. Through social media they hire a celebrity people who have lot of
followers to promote their project which gives them easily access to audience and it enables the
audience to take part in the project (Yates and et.al 2019).
As NHS is targeting people who suffer from type-2 diabetes for that purpose their project
aim to reduce the risk of diabetes for people who have high blood glucose level, they create an
urgency through their project so that people take effectively participate in the program. They
provide a health related exercises to maintain the healthy weight to prevent the risk of diabetes.
Collaborated with hospital organization to create an awareness about the adverse effect of type-2
disease as people only listen to those who have relevant information collaborating with the
hospital can be a advantage for the project. People can take guidance from the doctors and adapt
the lifestyle which they have selected for them to reduce the consequences of disease.
Participation of adults and young ones to manage the pleasant social relation called as social
cultural integration. People participate in the program can also develop awareness as they can
notify their families and friends about risk of Type-2 diabetes so that they can take precautions to
avoid the risk of this fatal disease. Multiculturalism in which various different ethnic group
collaborate and share their opinions with each other without ignoring their own personality.
Through which people can share their opinion for the growth of their community and can work
to resolve the problem (Kokab and et.al 2018).

Therefore, community engagement program work for the growth of the society. The
projects aim to resolve all the problems occur in society by giving information to the communal
people so that they know about particular thing. For the success rate of the project organisation
should apply a forward-looking approach to notify people about the subject of their project. They
can guide their employees to interact with people and effectively convey the message of their
project so that they willingly take participate in the program, give information to their
stakeholder so they can help in providing recommendation for easy decision-making process. If
their strategies are up to the mark then they are able to reach out to the number of audiences
which enable their project as successful event.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that community program promote the growth of the
society. A collaborated joint program through which different group of people of same opinion
connected. Through community engagement program people support the needy one or also
developed the awareness among the people for certain issue. To address the societal issue people
run a project which aimed to solve the issues occurred in society. Person should also use the
digital technology to promote their project on different social media app so that it can connect
more people with their program which also allow them to create a awareness of certain issue.
Through social media apps different genre audience can also show their support or raise the fund
to deal with the problem in the society. Community engagement gives the opportunity for the
development of the society. Through which needy people can also take the benefit or joint
program also help to promote the good health of the people among the society.
Effective participation of the stakeholder can also promote the program they can raise the
fund to help the needy people for their sustainable growth. Relevant recommendation for the
community engagement event for the future successful event can be expressed as to give equal
right to everyone in the community to express themselves, can proceed with focusing on future
development, can implement the social media technology to bring a concern about any social
issue, be responsive every community people revert when the leader of their community play an
responsible role. Encourage the community member to achieve their goals by giving knowledge
to them for a particular thing. Therefore, from these recommendations every communal project
can achieve the success which can be beneficial for the growth of the society.

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