Nursing Assignment: Critical Analysis of Community Nutrition Program

This nursing assignment critically analyzes the "Community Nutrition and Health Promotion Program" in Australia. It examines the program's background, focusing on its non-profit nature and services provided by accredited professionals. The report delves into the political and legislative policies that shaped the program's planning, resource allocation, and implementation, including the role of Australian dietary guidelines. It analyzes changes made to the program over time, driven by evolving health needs and societal trends, such as the shift towards addressing diet-related diseases and leveraging social media for outreach. The evaluation covers the program's limitations, successes, barriers, and opportunities, highlighting its positive impact on public health outcomes and its ability to adapt to changing circumstances. The report concludes with a summary of the program's effectiveness, lessons learned, and recommendations for future directions, emphasizing the importance of healthy eating habits and continuous program improvement.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Background of Selected health programme...............................................................................5
Critical analyze of policies that led to planning, resourcing and implementation of
programme.................................................................................................................................6
Critical analyze any changes occurred in the nutrition program and reason of these changes
during the life time...................................................................................................................10
Evaluation of findings and impact of programme....................................................................12
Summary..................................................................................................................................14
Conclusion................................................................................................................................15
References................................................................................................................................16

Introduction
In this recent era, health promotion programmes play an essential role in all nations. These
programs are conducted to prevent the people from diseases so that they may remain healthy
wealthy in their life. The main focus of this program is to keep the people safe and healthy. It
also aims to empower and engage the individuals as well as communities to select healthy
behavior. It also focuses on making changes so that the diseases can be minimized from the
country and people remain healthy for the long-term. Moreover, there are various activities in
terms of health promotion, disease prevention, as well as wellness programs. It includes
communication, education, policy, systems, as well as the environment. On the basis of
research, it has been depicted that a health promotion program in different countries is
promoted by taking into consideration different ways. It can be termed as the actions set to
foster good health and well-being. It involves several actions such as informing people that
what they could do in order to remain healthy for the long-term. It also includes addressing
the different things in the community by which health and well-being are influenced. With
the help of health promotion programmes, the people can make improvement in themselves
and improve their health to a great extent.

The main aim of the report is to select a health promotion programme of Australia and
evaluate its effectiveness in terms health status of targeted population. For this report,
“Community Nutrition and Health Promotion Program” is selected. The report critically
analyzes political or legislative policy process that led to planning, promotion,
implementation, and resourcing. It also analyzes any changes occurred in the programme.
The findings are also evaluated that include limitations, success, barriers, and opportunities.
At last, summarize the programme in terms of effectiveness as well as lessons learnt and
recommend future directions.

Background of Selected health programme
In the views of Nutrition Australia (2018), community nutrition and health promotion
program are conducted in Australia to inspire people for health eating. It was founded in the
year 1979 and become incorporated in the year 1981. It is the non-profit, non-government,
community-based organization that has different offices in Australia. It delivers services
through Accredited Practicing Dietitians and Accredited Nutritionists. It also offers various
other services such as coordination of events in annual national nutrition week campaign, It
serves a wide variety of community sectors in terms of health and well-being programs for
volunteers as well as staff. Fertman and Allensworth (2016), argue that main focus of this
programme is to improve the health of employees and volunteers. It target the people who eat
unhealthy food and need to improve their health by keeping control on their diet.
In addition, Nutrition Australia (2018), states that these healthy programmes are required
everywhere whether in the country or outside the country. In my opinion “Community
Nutrition Health Programme” helps the targeted population to remain healthy by consuming
proper healthy food. “Community Nutrition Programme” impacts positively the targeted
people. In the support of the above author, Mason et al (2018), said that there are certain
benefits of getting aware of these healthy programmes. With the help of this programme

people can minimize their risk of getting suffers from any kind of disease. If anyone has the
problem in consuming food then this program helps the people to consume the food in an
appropriate manner and on time. With the help of “Community Nutrition and Health
Promotion Program” what kind of food is healthy to eat and what kind of food is not healthy
to eat (Happell et al., 2012). According to my views it also offers the people to join nutrition
course at a reasonable rate so that the people may improve their health as soon as possible.
(Commonwealth of Australia, 2018), said that “Everyone has the right to live with standard
and for this health is the first priority that would help the individual to attain success in the
life”. If the food is healthy then the people remain healthy for life time. The major concern of
this program is the safe food consumption by the people to remain healthy.
Critical analyze of policies that led to planning, resourcing, and implementation of the
programme
There are different policies in terms of health and nutrition programs in Australia followed by
all the health promotion companies (Sallis et al., 2015). There are different Australian dietary
guidelines set by the government and each guideline is important to make aware of public
health outcomes. It is as follows:

In order to implement Political policy process in terms of health programme it requires
planning, resourcing and implementing. The political process includes consensus, rule of law,
competition, inclusion and good governance. According to my opinion before implementing
policy process in terms of health care programmes it is essential to plan as how it should be
developed and what benefits will be provided to the people. In the views of McGuffin et al
(2013), the policy is planned by the government of Australia in terms of health of people in
which people can remain healthy as well as physically fit it is essential for the Australian
people to select the amount of nutritious food as well as drink. In terms of resources in the
views of Capacci et al (2012), it is the second step of generating political policy process as
before implementing policy by the Australian government it needs resources such as
financial, community resources and etc. so that people may get aware about the policy
program that is going to be implemented by the government. In my opinion the resources
include suggestion of nutritious food to the people so that they may remain healthy.
Innovation is another important concept that is to be taken into consideration by the
government of Australia. The policy implemented should be unique so that all the people can
easily follow the policies (Rongen et al., 2013). This would be helpful for the people’s health.
With the help of innovation process there would be enhancement in the policy. The

innovation process also helps to implement the policy that is different and beneficial for the
people. AIHW (2018), describes last process that is implementation after planning,
resourcing, and innovation at last the policy is implemented by the government of Australia.
This implementation of health policies helps the people to stay healthy. Thus, at the time of
implementation of health programs various issues were faced by the health programmes like
time wastage, as they had to provide training to the staff so that they can make aware the
people about the training programmes. According to my view these are some of the issues
that are faced by health programmes before implementing any kind of new policy in their
programme center.

Source:(Liu et al., 2012)

Source: (Ridoutt, 2016)
http://www.wpro.who.int/publications/docs/hsp_mod4_1E08.pdf
Critical analyze any changes occurred in the nutrition program and reason for these
changes during the life time
On a regular basis, the changes are made in the nutrition program to improve more and more
so that they can suggest a good healthy diet for the people. In the views of mine Changes
include rules and policies as now a days the according to the developed world the policies are
changed of nutrition program (Wrzus et al., 2013). Basically, the changes are made when
there is any kind of issue faced in terms of providing healthy nutrition guidance to the people.

Arnett (2014), argue that according to the new era changes are to be made as it should add
some other nutrition activities. It has also been examined that in Australia diet related
diseases are high so nutrition program is gaining attention from the past years to help the
people in improving their health. The program focuses on changing the behaviour of people
in terms of their diet.
Along with this, Wrzus et al (2013), depicts that the changes can be made by planning for the
sustainable goals in the future years. It plays an important role as it helps the world to
improve the real situation of the whole world. The program can be expanded to other
countries so that the people can get more aware of nutrition food. It can also change the way
of communicating with the people. It can take into consideration social sites like Facebook,
Instagram to make aware the people about nutrition healthy food. Australian Institute of
Health and Welfare (2018), analyzes that these changes are necessary for the life time
because adding new things in the community nutrition program would be helpful in attracting
the people of Australia to follow their instructions of healthy eating food. It also provides
them knowledge as for why it is necessary to eat healthy food. It also tells them the risk of
eating unhealthy food. It impacts and empowers healthy eating in Australia. At last, it can be

said that eating healthy food and making changes according to the requirement is necessary to
improve the people in their health.
Moreover, various changes occurred due to the implementation of health care programs in
Australia the people became conscious about their diet. The people are now more concern to
eat the healthy food. It has been examined that Australian people spent $170 billion on
health. According to my views due to this health programs there is less diseases faced by the
Australian people. The other changes include that 58% females described their health more
perfect than men in Australia (AIHW, 2018).
Evaluation of findings and impact of programme
On the basis of above discussion, it can be depicted that healthy food is necessary for all the
people to remain healthy for the long-term. Australia’s Health (2018), evaluated that
community nutrition program impacts the people positively like people who are can maintain
diet. It will also be beneficial for people to minimize the risk of different diseases such as
diabetes, stroke, cancer and etc. This program also suggested the people the ways in which
they can maintain their diet. For example, if the people are suffering from eating problems
then they can consult a doctor, and for the proper digestion, they had to chew well the food.