Health Promotion: UK Government Strategies and Professional Roles

This report provides a comprehensive overview of health promotion strategies implemented by the UK government. It begins by highlighting the importance of health promotion and then delves into specific legislation, such as the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the National Health Service Act 2006, detailing their impact on public health. The report explores the Beattie model for health promotion, outlining its four paradigms and their practical applications. Furthermore, it examines the roles and responsibilities of various health professionals, including doctors, nurses, and specialists, in meeting government targets for health promotion. The report emphasizes the significance of local authorities and healthcare agencies in delivering essential public health services and concludes by underscoring the critical role of professionals in encouraging and supporting health initiatives, advocating for improved healthcare services, and promoting public awareness through various programs.

Health Promotion

INTRODUCTION
Health promotion is necessary to make people aware about health
related problems and to cure them. Present report describes about the role
of government strategies in promoting health.
Model which is use to promote health has also been discussed. Various
acts and regulations made by government to improve health of individual
are explained in the report.
 Roles and responsibilities of various health professionals like doctors,
nurses, nutritional practitioners, specialist and psychologist in promoting
health is illustrated in report

Links between government strategies and
models of health promotion
Government of UK has made many strategies to promote health through
which people get best facilities. Government is making various acts to
promote health of public in the country.
Health and social care act 2012: This act includes rule and legislation
that should be followed b by local authorities to.
 This ensures the people who are living in the locality that they get
best services which will prevent their health issues from becoming
more critical.
 Authorities should not delay in provide health care needs to local
people (Bauman and Nutbeam, 2013). Public should get all the
information and guidance they require fro their betterment of their
health

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 Proper services high quality care is provided by government for
better health of public.
 This care act for promotion of health improves people independence
and works for their well being. It gives guidance to social care
organization to monitor and regulate health of individual person.
National health service act 2006: This act made by government provides
proper fund and monetary support to social care homes (Clift and Page,
2015).
 This act gives guideline to provide all the required facilities to health
care home to give proper treatment to people suffering from health
issues.

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 There are several strategies too which are made by government to
promote health of individual which are as follows:
 local authorities have to check that facilities provided to local public
of are are working properly or not (Naidoo and Wills, 2016).
 Authorities should ensure that locality is having appropriate care
needs and support or not.
 Government also ensures that support need and demand of public is
meeting or not.
 Local authorities helps people to make access to the facilities provided
by them.

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 Government makes clear that these authorities in local area is
performing what they are expected to do .
 The act creates and establish clear rule for all the adults and children
must getting all the care and support the need.

Beatties model for health promotion
 Beattie model fro health promotion is model have four paradigms which
includes health persuasion, personal counselling, community
development, and legislative action by government (Mendes, Plaza and
Wallerstein, 2016).
 This model has 4 quadrants in which horizontal part I describes
individual to collective approach and vertical part describes
authoritative to negative approach. This model is applied to from health
policy for public.
 Authoritative to collective approach : This approach have two sections
first is health persuasion and second is community development which
are as follows:
 Health Persuasion: In this approach local policies are made by
government to reduce the use of packed food on order to safe them from
health problems. legislation is forced by government to eat food which
is healthy for the public (Hitchings and Latham, 2016).

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 Government designed program which aware people and children
about health issue. Partnership is formed with social care homes to
provide best advice to people about the care of health.
 Community development : This phase is increases awareness
among locality to choose best product and services which do not harm
the health of people.
 it motivates people to take healthy meals and to choose fresh products.
It encourages people to design better health diets and charts that can
help them to get disease free life.
 Community is developed by government to give best advice to people
who are suffering from any disease or illness.

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Individual to negative: This includes two sections which are health
counselling and legislative actions
Health counselling: In health counselling session counsellor ask people
about their specific needs relate to health care issue they faces. Session is
done with each family to know about their health and what they need to get
better health . Various type of training sessions are conducted by
government appointed counsellors. These training provides people
information and advice to lead healthy life. Individual is asked by
counsellor that of the facilities given them for health care are proper or then
need enhancement in that.
Legislative actions: Legislative actions includes policies made by
government for insuring that better medical care is provide to people who
are suffering from any health issues. Acts and policies are made by
government which provides help to individual in getting better facilities
sand medical assistance to improve their health.

Role of professionals in meeting
government targets for health promotion
 Health professionals plays very important role in meeting targets
made by government fro health promotion
 . Local health care authorities have responsibility to delivery basic
public health care services which are required by each individual.
Agencies of health care gives guidance and advice to people to lead
healthy life (Sharma, 2016).
 Doctors of social care homes gives guideline to people to get better
food product which do not harm to their health. Health care
professionals appoint counsellor in each locality which ask people
about their health issue . Professionals visits local area to promote
health programs which are conducted by government.

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 They encourage people to take part in these kind of programs so that
they can get advice and suggestions for their health problem. Local
health care authorities promote various act and legislation made by
government to make people aware about their rights.
 Nurses have significant rile in promoting health among public. They
are experience health professionals who can give best advice to people
. They interact with people and educate them about the health issues.
Nurse provides medical assistance and guidance to local area public .
Fro example nurses if patient come to her for diabetes test she can
give advice about regular and proper check-up of blood sugar.