Strategies for Public Health Policy and Health Promotion

This report examines public health strategies, policy development, and health promotion within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the London Borough of Havering. It explores strategies for developing public health policy to improve the health of individuals and the population, considering the impact of the pandemic on various aspects of life, including healthcare systems and mental health. The report analyzes factors affecting health, such as social, political, and economic conditions, and investigates how health is promoted to improve the health of the population, including the role of healthy diets and lifestyles. Furthermore, it investigates how health promotion encourages individuals to change their behavior concerning their health, highlighting behavior change approaches and supportive policy frameworks. The conclusion summarizes the implementation of these strategies and the importance of addressing public health challenges during and after the pandemic.

HEALTH & SOCIAL
CARE

INTRODUCTION
Public health plays a key role during the outbreak of covid-19. The people were very
badly affected by the pandemic in the whole world, the public faced a lot of problems because of
the covid-19 it was really hard for people to live and manage their household. Public health has
to provide help and essentials during this period and applying different policies in the committee
to prevent the disease informing about precautions they should take if someone is infected with
disease they should isolate themselves and take proper medical care, treating them from disease
and maintaining distance. (Moule 2020.) The main part of public health is to check and monitor
the population’s health, implementing policies and laws, finding out the root causes of health
hazards like diagnosing the disease, research, and quality of information, and maintaining the
organization of public health. The key guidance on how public health and social measures they
need to reduce the risk of covid-19 and how to control infection, how to tackle its impact on a
human being keep in control of the spread. The report contains the details of how public health is
planning the strategies, how to develop and implement them on population with proper
management of government to lower down the negative impact of the conscience.
A: Examine strategies for developing public health policy to improve the health of
individuals and the population.
It is really necessary to develop certain policies and laws to improve the condition of the
London Borough of Havering population during a time of pandemic. The London Borough
Havering is in the outer part of London the population count is 2.85 lakhs. It is very important to
keep a report of the population and their health habits during the viral infection in the whole
world. Public health care worked by maintaining a report and analyzing their people’s condition
and their medical health. (Papadopoulos, Koulouglioti, and Ali 2018) Planning and developing a
strategy for their public to help them and informing them to take extra care, keeping an eye on
their body temperature. Providing them the essentials they need in their household, giving
medical care like a vaccine, medicine, food, and creating a supportive environment will be useful
during this harsh period. It will be very useful for the people of London Borough if the public
health starting helping their population and supporting them taking action and providing them
proper health care worker and supplies the vaccine, and having a count of the people who are
infected with a disease and isolating them and alerting others to stay in quarantine who been in

touch with patients, conducting a meeting for awareness of covid-19 how to take precaution and
preventing from this viral disease, keeping the surroundings clean and maintaining the proper
hygiene level. Especially keeping the children and elderly aged people who can get easily
affected by this viral infection. Making it compulsory to follow the rules and regulations for
people's safety. Assuring that people are following the recommendation of the health authority.
Adopting certain strategies for developing the public health of Havering it is necessary to face
challenges in the future and tackling the risk factor. (Lancet, T., 2020) The global pandemic
coronavirus disease has spread in the whole world and destroyed the economy, politics, society,
and technology. Even the health care system delivers services according to the fundamental rules
the care delivered is based on face-to-face medical care. It’s really hard to understand individual
mental health stability during self-isolation. The patient feels depressed and alone. This condition
is common when no one is there to support the individual because of the fear of getting infected.
(Smithson, and et. al 2018.)The duty of a public health care worker to maintain a report of the
person and make the patient comfortable. The public health department holds a great
responsibility towards its population, controlling the causes of a disaster.
B: Examine the factors affecting health and the impact of addressing these factors
to improve public health Learning aim.
Health is the main thing to be taken care of people avoiding taking a risk with health,
they become conscious when it is related to their physical and mental conditions. Most of the
time health is determined by the social, political, economic, and cultural surroundings in which
humans live means it matters where we live, where we work, what our education and better
living prove of good healthy life. Coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) had a huge impact on the globe
where people’s living conditions got worse and unbearable to think about. Surprisingly on the
other hand the government and public health authority is helping the population by keeping a
report of the population so it will help them to check the number of cases and increase the level
of the cases.(Armocida, et.al 2020. ) Several factors affect health covid-19 harm health which is
very harmful especially for the young and old aged people. It becomes hard to cope with mental
illness. It feels very challenging for those who are suffering from anxiety, depression, and other
mental health problems. The Covid-19 impact has become hard to handle but the public health
sector of Havering is keeping an eye on its population so they can understand the situation of its

people and can manage the deadly infection with the use of vaccines for their community,
providing food, medicine, shelter and dunking water for the people who can not afford during
this crucial time because the lockdown people stop going out, they preferred to safe in their own
houses, where the person without shelter, food, and water became hard to survive without any
income and check-ups become impossible for the people who have lower income. Public health
plays a key role by providing them the things they want to survive and telling them to stay home
and be safe. (Kaehne, Beacham, and Feather 2018) If the living is in bad condition it will lead to
a good healthy life even in future because less money can not afford safe life, fewer nutrients,
improper diet and medical check-ups in a poor status. It becomes the duty of public health care
workers to see and go through the living position of their people. It would be helpful if they start
reaching their goal of providing care during the pandemic and assuring that their people should
have a safe and secure environment in the future it becomes an aim of public health.
C: Investigate how health is promoted to improve the health of the population.
It’s good to have a healthy life so it will improve our living conditions and health.
Promoting health programs to empower or encourage the individual and the communities to
switch on healthy behavior and start making changes so it can reduce the chances of risk
developing a disease like chronic heart and other diseases promoting own health helps to control
the unhealthy diet. (McCormack, and Dewing, 2019.) During the pandemic, it is better to
maintain hygiene and a healthy lifestyle. Nowadays people are looking to live a balanced diet so
they can manage a healthy life in the future also. Avoiding junk food and drinks will help to
maintain a healthy diet and eating only hot foods to kill bacteria in the foods, having hot or
steamed food is good during times of viral infections. Even though it will be useful for the
population to switch to a healthy diet to prevent any disease in the body, people fall sick because
of the unhealthy diet and not eating food on time. (Harris, and White, 2018) Falling sick often is
not a good habit that shows we are living in an unhealthy way that affects us both mentally and
physically. Public health improves the status of an individual, community, state, nations and
reduces the death rate, and helps to maintain a report on the community and an individual. So it
can tackle the situation of both. Understanding their people’s problems and providing solutions
according to their needs. It is obvious that maintaining a high standard of healthy life will cost

and it will affect the people who barely afford a two-time food because public health implements
different policies and law to provide a sufficient life for everyone.
D: Investigate how health promotion encourages individuals to change their
behavior concerning their health.
It is very helpful to maintain a healthy diet and bring progress in daily activity. People
should worry about their health in order to understand their physical and mental behavior. There
is a different strategy that promotes a healthy life: a behavior change approach; a strong policy
framework that helps to create a supportive environment and empowerment of people to gain
more control to make a suitable healthy life. (Roth, and Reichert 2019.) They give different
opportunities like access, affordability, availability of vaccination, rights, regulations,
legalization, and availability of information. These all chances are provided by the public health
for their people. When the start person starts living according to his\her standards they start
changing themselves to fit in the world. Pandemic has made a huge difference in people's lives,
nowadays the public prefers to eat healthily and hygienically, maintaining distance from the
other people, making it comfortable to clean the place only. (Challis, and et. al 2018) it becomes
hard to manage a healthy diet and planning a balanced diet. But it gives hope for the future to
stay healthy and safe. Public health assures that their people should live in good conditions
where they don’t have to worry about any health issues.

CONCLUSION
After analyzing the above report the conclusion of the content is how the public health of
London Borough of Havering which is in the outer part of London is implementing and
developing certain strategies to help their people from covid-19. Providing the things they want
and how they should take extra care of each other during this period. It is compulsory to handle
the situation with all planning and developing a solution for the society, so it will help the people
to understand their government situation during the outbreak of the pandemic. Even the medical
sector has been changed a lot and everything has become more strict and fundamental. How the
common public can improve their health condition during this pandemic, guiding them to
analyze with proper safety and follow the laws which have to implement for the people and they
can change their laws according to the increasing case of the coronaviruses and helping every
individual with their mental health during self-isolation so they should not feel lonely and
depressed. Understanding individual behavior and having proper communication to reduce
stigma, build trust, increase social support, and have shared value across the public sector to
reduce the risk factor in the future.

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