Public Health: From Health Promotion to Community Development

This report delves into the multifaceted realm of public health, examining the critical connections between health promotion, community development, and individual change. It begins by highlighting the global burden of mental illness and emphasizing the role of public health in prevention and intervention. The report explores various aspects of public mental health protection, including data availability, infrastructure, and workforce development. It then investigates community development strategies for mental health promotion, individual change models, and the application of psychology theories. Furthermore, it discusses models of health promotion, wider determinants of health, and the ethical considerations within public health practices. The report also analyzes NHS policies, ethical principles, and the social marketing critique, concluding with a discussion on limitations and a call for comprehensive public health strategies.

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1. Introduction
Mental illness subsidizes a considerable burden of disease globally. Worldwide, almost 450
million individuals are suffering from the mental health. Research states that a quarter of the
population in the world will develop mental sickness at a stage in their lives. The main
proved risk factor that causes mental illness is depression which later causes diseases like
diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. The treatment of individuals with mental
health is available and operative. The public health has the aptitude for incorporating the
promotion and prevention of mental disorders (Kobau et al., 2011). Additionally, the public
health can conduct research and surveillance to expand the indication base about the mental
illness. This article proposes to discuss how mental health gets connected to public health,
community development, individual change, and the level of critique. The report will further
debate about the models of health promotion and explain their determinants.
2. How public health is conducting prevention on mental health
i. Guaranteeing that the critical strategic about the epidemiologic data are available
ii. Solidification of the leading public health infrastructures and institutions
iii. Inaugurating strong laboratory networks in public health
iv. Creating a capable and skilled workforce (Bloland et al., 2012)
v. Implementing strategic programs
vi. Supporting applied research and critical operation
3. Profile of public mental health protection
i. available data on prevalence
ii. risk and methods of prevention

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iii. methods on initial intervention
iv. valuation and treatment
v. consequences and facility costs (Kobau et al., 2011)
4. Community development on mental health promotion
i. Support different approaches on the actions that assist to develop and recognize
their potential and ability.
ii. Constructing on central initiatives
iii. developing and supporting the strengths of the community
iv. Location-based strategies
v. Investigation of significant services
vi. Grants on Community renovation (Bloland et al., 2012)
5. Individual change on mental health
i. Personal importance on optimism and resiliency
ii. Social relationships
iii. Outcome and Knowledge expectations
iv. Moral and own norms
v. Self-efficacy
6. Models of mental health promotion
i. Self-empowerment model
ii. Behavioural change model
iii. Ecological replicas
iv. Collective action (Kobau et al., 2011)
7. Pathogenic link to UK parliament,

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i. Evolving new antibiotics and also reducing the use of antibiotics
ii. Establishing resistant in bloodstream contaminations
iii. Integrating social and health care
8. Wider determinants of health with health protection approach
i. Biology and genetics
ii. Health services
iii. Policymaking
iv. Individual behavior
v. Social factors
9. Own change links to psychology theory
i. The Experience of Perceptive Discord to Create Insolence Change
ii. Raising Positive Self-Esteem to mitigate Dissention
iii. Creating Inadequate Defence and Over justification
iv. Self-Perception Includes Concluding Our Principles from Our Behaviours
(Langford and Panter-Brick, 2013)
10. Behavioural change model
i. Stages of model behaviour change which include pre-contemplation, inspection,
preparation, action, conservation, and termination (Langfor and Panter-Brick,
2013)
11. NHS policies
i. Preventing people from dying prematurely
ii. Enhancing the quality of life for people with long term conditions
iii. Helping people to recover from episodes of ill health or following injury.

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iv. Ensuring that people have a positive experience of care
v. Treating and caring for people in a safe environment and protecting them from
avoidable harm (Coughlin, 2008).
12. Ethics
i. The ethical of benevolence
ii. The value of no maleficence that needs avoidance of harmful acts
iii. The norm of respect for autonomy which focuses on the benefits of self-
determination
iv. Ethics of justice (Coughlin, 2008)
13. Social marketing critique
i. Critique contends that social marketing movements may generate a second
shortcoming for the underprivileged people.
14. Limitation
i. Discrimination against race, ethnicity, and colour
ii. poverty (Kobau et al., 2011)
15. Conclusion

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