Public Health Report: Analysis of Obesity in England and Interventions

This report focuses on obesity as a significant public health issue in England. It begins with an introduction to public health concerns and defines obesity as a prevalent problem. The report delves into the causes of obesity, such as reduced physical activity and increased consumption of processed foods, and highlights the impact on children in the Colchester campus. It then explores the burden of obesity, including its effects on life expectancy, quality of life, associated diseases, employment, and the economy. The report outlines various intervention strategies, including healthy eating plans, physical activity, and weight management programs. It also examines different public health models employed to address obesity at global, European, and national levels. Finally, the report assesses the effectiveness of these intervention strategies, citing research on weight loss and the impact of web-based interventions. The report concludes that obesity is a major public health challenge in England, linked to various health and socioeconomic problems.

ADVANCING THE HEALTH
OF THE POPULATION:
UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC
HEALTH

TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Public health issue
Burden of the problem
Intervention of obesity
Models of public health which are being employed in dealing with the your public health issue like
obesity.
Effectiveness of intervention strategies of obesity
Conclusion
Reference

INTRODUCTION
• The pubic health issues is the medical issues which affect significant extent of particular
population.
• Some example of issues may includes obesity, Type 2 diabetes, tuberculosis, HIV, mental health
challenges or may be vehicle accidents.
• In order to keep focus on people health some health promotion as well as disease prevention
programmes are run.

PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE
• One of the prevalent issues in England is obesity.
• The reason of obesity is that the people reduce physical activity due to
increase use of private cars, desk bound employment, reducing home
cooking as well as increase the consumption of processed foods which
have high sugar, salt as well as saturated foods.
• According to new research it has been found that in Colchester campus the
obesity is turning the much bigger problem in children and it can impact
the health as well as poor level of fitness. It has been found that 11% of
11-16 year old children are obese and more than 20% of the children are
having low cardiorespiratory fitness.

BURDEN OF THE PROBLEM
• The burden of problem or disease is a pessimistic term as it mainly focused
on the hardships along with the losses which are associated with the
disease, disability as well as death.
• Impact of public health due to obesity are mentioned such as
1. Life expectancy
2. Quality of life
3. Prevalence of associated diseases
4. Employment
5. Economic impact

INTERVENTION OF OBESITY
• Healthy eating plan and regular physical activity
• Changing habits
• Weight management programmes
• Weight- loss medicines
• Weight- loss devices

MODELS OF PUBLIC HEALTH WHICH ARE
BEING EMPLOYED IN DEALING OBESITY
• Policy response at the global level
• Policy response at the European level
• National action plans and strategies

EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERVENTION
STRATEGIES OF OBESITY
• The effectiveness of the intervention strategies of obesity can be determined by comprehensive
reviews of the literature which showed that the adults may lose clinically significant amount of
weight it might be 5% to 10% in the programmes by having treatment session in anywhere.
• Most studies have found that there is statistically significant weight loss but it was limited in terms
of weight or number of people. Since, the web-based intervention have no uniform effect on weight
loss but it could achieve similar levels to face to face intervention. (Peçanha and et.al., 2020).

CONCLUSION
• From the given report, it is concluded that obesity is the most prevalent disease in England. As
obesity is the most common concern as a public health issue.
• It has been concluded that obesity may linked to many other diseases some may cause problem in
day-to-day life or some may link to serious health disease.
• The report may also conclude that obesity is related to many problems such as decrease
employment rate, most prevalent in men than in women, decrease life- expectancy rate, immense
impact on economical rate.

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