Health Promotion: Analysis of C-Span Video and Community Health

This report provides an analysis of a health promotion video, specifically focusing on the C-Span Health Promotion video featuring U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin. The report examines various methods of promoting health within communities, as discussed in the video, including the importance of nutritious food, exercise, and the influence of the environment. It highlights the Obama administration's National Prevention Health Promotion Approach and its focus on increasing the number of healthy individuals. The report also emphasizes the significance of government health policies, health literacy, and health cities in promoting overall wellbeing. Furthermore, the report discusses the benefits of health promotion in terms of disease prevention and reducing healthcare costs. It also touches on the roles of government in improving healthcare quality and the need for partnerships between public and private sectors to achieve high-quality care. Finally, the report concludes by emphasizing the crucial role of health promotion in improving population health outcomes, with a focus on the strategies presented in the video and the importance of individual responsibility in leading a healthy life.

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), it is stated that health
promotion is a significant process which supports different group of individual to direct
control and enhance their health condition. Different environmental interventions are widely
available that will assist and safeguard the individuals health as well as their eminence of life
(WHO, 2016). It is assumed that health promotion provides appropriate message to different
individuals regarding the prevention from primary causes of disorder other than concentrating
on cure and treatment (WHO, 2016). In this study, I will evaluate the c-span well-being
promotion video and enlighten the steps that can be adopted by the community to achieve
health promotion associated with the significance of well-being promotion. I will also
elaborate the influence of health promotion on an individual’s health and how they can direct
their health and identify the strategies for better health condition.
Health promotion consist of three crucial elements namely health cities, health
literacy and good authority for health (Sharma, 2015). Health promotion involves the
administration to create an appropriate government health policy, which states that all the
necessary decision of health prevention is taken under authority and control. The government
of the poor socio-economic policies also assist in enhancing the overall health condition
status (Archenaa & Anita, 2015). The next element of health promotion includes health
literacy, where every individual must acquire information, knowledge and skills to take
healthy life choices regarding the nutrition they consume associated with the atmosphere they
live in. The last element is health cities, where cities have a huge role in promoting health
promotion through developing preventive resolutions within the healthcare facilities and
residential areas.
According to the information obtained from the video clip, the C-Span Health
Promotion video, U.S. Surgeon General, Dr Regina Benjamin communicates regarding
various methods of promoting health among communities. Being an American Doctor, she

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delivered and addressed the general public with relevant available information and strategies
to assist the makers in developing an effective health promotion strategy for a better nation.
Dr Benjamin, communicated regarding 2010 health care law, Obama administration’s
National Prevention Health Promotion Approach. She enlightens on the approach to upsurge
the quantity of fit and healthy individuals. Dr Benjamin also elaborated on living a fit and
healthy life and selecting nutritious food and exercise. She said that an individual’s health is
dependent on the surrounding where they live and what kind of food they eat. She revealed
the significance of consuming adequate quantity of vegetables and fruits every day.
In this video clip, she also discussed the effect of promotion approach and how it
effect on the consumers. The response of the consumers will be communicated through calls.
Effective health promotion is therefore considered as very significant for a healthy life as it
enhances the individual’s quality of life and focus on disease prevention. Another benefit of
health promotion is to reduce the cost of medical treatment particularly for individuals,
families, employers, communities, insurance companies and medical facilities (Fertman &
Allensworth, 2016). It is widely accepted that social and health wellbeing are specifically
identified by various factors like harmful eating patterns, economic and social factors,
economic alterations and family patterns. Another method of health promotion must include
settings-grounded within any specific settings like residential areas, schools, workplace and
hospitals.
Positive health consequences can be achieved by operating policies competently
which can further result in positive health result. It is identified as the government’s
accountability to advance and protect the welfares of the society and provide enhanced health
care. In United States (US), the administration has various roles towards improving the safety
and quality of health care (Squires & Anderson, 2015). Roles include providing and
purchasing health care, safeguarding access towards high quality of care, managing the health

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care arcades, supporting novel technology and knowledge, evaluating and developing novel
practices, enlightening the quality of health care, assisting decision makers for health care,
increasing the workforce for health care as well as stakeholders through the complete health
care organisation. Because of the market, it is highly doubtful that every Americans can
obtain the accessibility of health care. The definitive aim of the government is to achieve high
superiority of care that requires robust partnerships amongst the local, federal, and state
governments as well as the secluded sector (Obama, 2016).
Interpreting general principles concerning the suitable character of administration into
precise actions in the rapidly changing, distributed delivery system requires the involvement
of mutual determinations of the private and public sectors. It is identified that more operative
strategy towards preventing the healthcare other than handling disease and sickness towards
improving the America’s health condition and reducing the total expenditure of healthcare.
Almost every individual know that consuming adequate food and exercise are very crucial for
leading a healthy life (Romero-Gómez, Zelber-Sagi & Trenell, 2017). In this community, we
must understand the significance of developing environments which encourage physical
exercise and benefit of decision-making regarding what to drink and eat. It is considered as
the personal responsibility to lead a healthy life and take their individual responsibility. This
is not always general to convey, particularly when the nation is involved in the debate on
obesity which goes further than a health discussion. The debate on obesity is considered as a
political matter, pitting those individual who trust the national should not obstruct against the
individual who trust the role of the government.
Hence, it can be concluded that health promotion play a crucial role towards
developing and improving the health outcome of the population. This study had focused on
the video clip, c-span well-being promotion video, and had highlighted the significant health
promotion steps that would be effective towards improving the health outcomes of the

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population. In the provided video clip, the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr Regina Benjamin, had
enlighten the different methods of supporting good health and also highlighted the strategies
towards a healthy nation. The Obama administration’s National Prevention Health Promotion
Approach was also elaborated which stated that consuming a nutrient rich food is very
essential for every individual. This study had also explained the benefit of government health
promotion strategy and how this strategy will assist the general population in any healthcare
or household setting. Different factors that affect the health and wellbeing of the population
are also elaborated associated with the strategies that will mitigate those identified risk
factors.

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