IDS 402 Wellness Presentation: Strategic Plan for Environmental Health

This presentation addresses the critical issue of environmental pollution and its impact on vulnerable populations, particularly the elderly and those living in poverty. It highlights the need for strategic interventions to combat the adverse health effects stemming from pollution, focusing on poor housing conditions and lifestyle factors. The presentation suggests outdoor interventions, such as limiting exposure and using protective masks, and indoor interventions, including ensuring clean fuel burning and promoting proper dietary supplements. It also emphasizes the importance of improved housing plans for impoverished communities and accessible healthcare facilities to address pollution-related health issues. The presentation acknowledges the ethical and practical challenges in implementing these strategies, particularly concerning the orthodox mentality of older individuals. Ultimately, the proposed strategies are deemed effective due to their cost-effectiveness and alignment with ethical standards, offering a practical approach to improving public health. Desklib provides students access to similar presentations and solved assignments.

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Slide 1:
According to Frumkin (2016), environmental pollution is one of the essential reasons
behind the decrease in health conditions of the population nowadays. It is found to be
effecting the health conditions of people is a major manner, especially the elderly population
and the people witnessing poverty. Elderly people are majorly found to be effected by
diabetes and asthma, and pollution I playing an important role in increasing their problems
and the mortality and morbidity rate in the population.
The aim of the assignment is to highlight the plans and strategies that can be
implement ted in order to restore the issues that are faced by the elderly people and the
poverty witnessing population.
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The main focus is to provide a appropriate strategic plan which will address the issue of
poor housing in population living in poverty which is found to be a reason behind the
enhancement of the issue of environmental ovulation acquaintance.
And also the goal is to provide proper lifestyle strategies and diet plans for the elderly
people and also those who are suffering from asthma and diabetes. This may help them to
reduce the sever effect of environmental pollution and the changing climate due to the
pollution on their health condition (Bentayeb et al., 2015).
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There are various recommendations that are found to be helping in restoring the issue
of health because of the environmental pollution. The following are some measures that can
help in addressing the issue. First comes the Outdoor interventions which can be used to
avoid the risk factor due to the exposure to environmental pollution. In order to address the

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outdoor interventions, the elderly people and those who are suffering from asthma should
avoid their exposure to outdoor surroundings as much as possible. If it is very necessary to go
outside, one must wear facemask before going outside their house, so that they do not inhale
the polluted air directly. The mask is found to filter the impurities in the air. Other measure
includes cleaning their neighbouring environment so that they at least reduce the risk of
pollution i=from their surroundings to some extent. (Simoni et al., 2015).
Then comes the Indoor interventions which includes Safe and clean fuel burning which
states that, the indoor environment should be pollution free for which the home should have
proper kitchen ventilation and chimney, forbidding smoking if there are any elderly people or
patient who are suffering from asthma or diabetes. Proper dietary supplement is one of the
major factors that will help is reducing the risk and effects that the pollution has on the
health. (Bentayeb et al., 2015).
Next comes the step that should be taken for proper housing plans for the people who are
poverty struck. The major effect of environmental population they face is because of their
housing condition and living style. They need proper housing and environment where they
can live a healthy lifestyle and maintain hygiene.
At last proper Healthcare facility should provide in every regions and areas in order to
address the issues and effects of the pollution on the health of the people and awareness
camps.
Slide 4
The implication challenges that are faced are because of the ethical values and
thinking of the people that are suffering. Old people face practice challenges and implication
issues due to their age and mentality as they become orthodox for various issues. lack of

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knowledge also effects the practices as they face difficulties in understand the proper use and
application criteria (Edelman, Mandle & Kudzma, 2017).
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The strategies are effective as it is cost effective and is not violating any laws or
morals of any kind of organisation or people’s health. it is a practice which can be trained and
applied easily to population (Yusif, Soar & Hafeez-Baig, 2016).
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