Assessing Population Health in Brent and Bristol, PC5LS52O, LSST UK

This report provides a comparative assessment of population health in two UK communities, Brent and Bristol, highlighting prevalent health issues and relevant theoretical frameworks. In Brent, the primary concern is the high rate of diabetes and associated complications like hypertension and cancer, exacerbated by lifestyle factors and socioeconomic challenges. The cultural deficit model and health asset theories are applied to understand and address these issues. In Bristol, overweight and obesity are major concerns, leading to cardiovascular diseases, particularly among low-income families. The health asset theory informs interventions aimed at promoting healthier behaviors. Both communities require targeted strategies and interventions from governmental and non-governmental agencies to improve population health outcomes. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
The health issue can disrupt the all aspect of life, the situation is partially based on acute
behaviour and chronic behaviour it’s all depend on the nature of disease. Moreover, the health
issue can lead serious issue with the individual. In this report, the two is community is selected
named Brent and Bristol in UK. The community have their own issue which is associated with
the health. In this, the discussion is made in order to complete the community health issue with
the relevant theories. However, they are assisted with the theory which is relevant for the
addressing of health issue. the selected theory which includes theories of health need called
deficit model, theory of health asset named as capabilities model and theory of demographic
change and transition, epidemiological transition and nutrition (Goyal and et. al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
While taking the contrast of selected community, the Brent faces diabetes as a major issue
within the community that create complication regards with the health issue. Moreover, the rate
of diabetes is higher in Brent and expected to rise (Williams and et. al., 2020). In addition to this,
there are other health issues are also associated with the rising cases of diabetes which may
include hypertension, depression, high blood pressure, and many forms of cancers are also
analyse in the community of Brent. Moreover, the people of Brent, usually follows such kind of
lifestyle which may create complication and consequences. As per this, people focus on the
better environment and better health but due to the low income and poor lifestyle. They cannot
resist the better form of life which may create a higher rate of diabetes which is rising as per the
current scenario (O'Kane and et. al., 2020).
The cultural deficit model is providing and perception that minority group members are
different because of their culture that is deficient and important way from the dominant majority
group. This model has been played essential role in the evolution of thinking about social issues.
With the contrast of rising cases and diabetes the perspective of the peoples is usually focus on
the social issues rather than the health issues. Moreover, the theory of health assets is also known
as capability model. While taking the contrast of diabetes. They do not prefer to change the
behaviour in such a way which provide a healthy approach for their living. It is also helpful to
promote well-being among the people and reduced the cases of diabetes by creating informative
scenario was among the population of Brent (Scarr and et. al., 2019).
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In this, the community which is selected for this report is Bristol in UK. The major health
issues which are identify in this region is overweight or obesity. Moreover, discrete major
complications with the people of Bristol in the various ways because due to the overweight and
obesity. The peoples are facing the situation of higher rate of diabetes and cardiovascular disease
(Tan and et. al., 2019). In this, the 56% of the adults in which all are comes under the category of
overweight which may fall in the risk of cardiovascular disease due to this condition. Moreover,
19.7% of the children are live in a low-income family. Whereas, there are other associated
problems which is analysed in the Bristol but the major problem which is evaluated is
overweight and obesity. The theory of health asset provides the knowledge which is related with
the required changes that is needed for the people of Bristol in order to reduce the complication
and consequences of rising cases of overweight and obesity. Moreover, the government and non-
government agencies also implement intervention planned to reduce the complexities of people
in Bristol (Silveira and et. al., 2021).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is analysed that the selected communities have their own
health issues regarding with the difference are used in which the people of Brent face a situation
of higher rates of diabetes. Whereas, the Bristol community faces the situation of overweight and
obesity. In this, the government and non-governmental agencies used to implement various
strategies and intervention to reduce the complications. Moreover, the create campaigns to
change the lifestyle and such a form to adopt a healthy behaviour. In addition to this, the
associated theories provide the relevance regards with the selected communities to adopt a
healthy behaviour to minimise health issues.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Goyal and et. al., 2020. Diabetes: perspective and challenges in modern era. Gene Reports, 20,
p.100759.
O'Kane and et. al., 2020. British Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Society Guidelines on
perioperative and postoperative biochemical monitoring and micronutrient replacement for
patients undergoing bariatric surgery—2020 update. Obesity Reviews, 21(11), p.e13087.
Scarr and et. al., 2019. Estimating GFR by serum creatinine, cystatin C, and β2-microglobulin in
older adults: results from the Canadian study of longevity in type 1 diabetes. Kidney
international reports, 4(6), pp.786-796.
Silveira and et. al., 2021. Prevalence of constipation in adults with obesity class II and III and
associated factors. BMC gastroenterology, 21(1), pp.1-10.
Tan and et. al., 2019. Letter regarding article,“Associations of obesity and circulating insulin and
glucose with breast cancer risk: a Mendelian randomization analysis”. International journal
of epidemiology, 48(3), pp.1014-1015.
Williams and et. al., 2020. A risk prediction model for heart failure hospitalization in type 2
diabetes mellitus. Clinical cardiology, 43(3), pp.275-283.
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