Analysis of the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan (2019-2023)

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Victorian Public Health and Wellbeing Plan 2019-2023, focusing on its objectives to improve the health and wellbeing of Victorian residents. It examines key issues such as chronic conditions, tobacco-related harm, mental health, and environmental factors like climate change. The plan's priorities, including reducing tobacco consumption, addressing mental health challenges, and promoting healthy lifestyles, are discussed in detail. The report also explores health determinants—social, biological, and environmental factors—and how they impact public health. Furthermore, it highlights health promotional initiatives, such as tobacco control measures and strategies to support smoking cessation, aimed at achieving the plan's goals. The report underscores the importance of a whole-of-government commitment and place-based strategies to drive improvements in public health and wellbeing within Victoria.

Health and wellbeing

INTRODUCTION
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity.” WHO made further clarifications: researchers publishing in The
Lancet defined health as the ability of a body to adapt to new threats and infirmities. Well-being
is the experience of health, happiness, and prosperity. It includes having good mental health,
high life satisfaction, a sense of meaning or purpose, and ability to manage stress.
This report will cover the Study about the Victorian Public health and well-being plan
2019- 2023. This plan is for the Victorian people , Victoria is a one of the state of the Australia
and this plan will focus on the people who live in state. The main objective and vision of this
plan is to provide good health and well-being to their people and make better life for live in
this place.
MAIN BODY
Description of plan
People who live in the Victoria enjoys the highest average life expectancy in all around
the wold. But while the Victorian living longer, they are also living with the high burden of
the Chronic conditions – The burden of the different kind of Disease for the community arising
from the living with the ill health or the injury is now , for the 1st time , grater than that arising
from drug prematurely.
The Andrews labor government want that their all the Victorian people to enjoy the
Highest standards of the well-being and good health. To maintain the help and well-bring of the
Victorian people government has introduced the new plan which is known as “The Victorian
public health and well-being plan (Aron and et.al (2019)). This plan will work from 2019 to
2023 and it will focus on some of the major issues such as Climate change which is also
effacing the hearth of the public so this plan will, focus to change in the planet, reducing
injuries , it will focus to preventing all from of Violence, some of them are religious Violence
which is major issues in all around the world. This plan will encourage people to eat healthy
food which is good for their health, most of the decease arise when people eat unhealthy food
so this plan will focus to encourage people to eat healthy food. The another problem I the
Victoria is that people used to consume drugs . This includes smooching and drinking which
creates major decease and infection in the community. Increasing active living will be also
main focus of the plan Increase the proportion of transport trips that use active modes of travel.

Increase easy access to parks, open spaces and public spaces with opportunities for physical
activity where appropriate. Integrate healthy lifestyle counselings and referrals within routine
health care services (Bloem, Pfeijffer & Krack (2018)). Plan will also focus on the mental
health of the people which can be improved through the exercise so people can be active in
their daily life, and they well be fit and healthy. Good physical health also impact on the mental
health of the person so exercise is necessary for the people according to this plan.
Description of Priority area in the whole plan
In this whole plan main focus is on the Heath and well-being of the Victorian people.
Plan has distributed different different areas which will be related to the health of the people. In
my opinion : reducing Tabasco related harm should be the first priority of the plane. This will
be the first priority f this plan because most of the people in the Victoria are consuming product
which are made of Tobacco. Tobacco is the relation behind the many illnesses which include
cancer, stroke , heart disease and emphysema (Browne (2017)). In the year 2017 the overall
rates of the smoking among the studies in the Victoria was around 6 percent and they were
just 12 and 17 year old. This is the major issues among the students and adult both which is
creating problems on their health. This is important for the government to take necessary steps
to reduce the rate of the Tobacco consumption.
As per the plan government will bring the new rules related to the tabacoo which will
create retraction on the Tobacco . They should takes the action such as – reduce the smoking
related harm and demoralize smoking behavior through the ongoing support and modernization
of Tobacco control regulation in the Victoria. This plan will support the smokers to quiet the
smoking for this government of the Victoria also provide the treatment to overcome from the
habit of the tobacco consumption. Embed smoking identification and cessation pathways into
the routine care (Davern and et.al. (2017)). This will create achievement which will be
decrease in r the access and affordability oh the tobacco products among the people in Victoria.
Decrease in the social accessibility of the smoking. This is important for the plan to focus on
this topic because it ca improve the health of many people who are living in the states and they
can reduce the rate of smoking among the adult and child both and make their people healthy
and well- being. They have to restrict the use of the Tobacco in their states, so they can fight
which this problem otherwise it will lead people to suffer from the dangerous disease and it

will also create problems for the students in the future, and they will also have to suffer from
the major diseases.
Identify of population who are risk and experiencing the poorer health and well being
outcomes.
People is Victoria are facing the problems related to their mental health which is taking
them to risk, and they are experiencing the poorer health and well being. This is because of the
family pressure or the bad habits (Gatzweiler and et.al. (2017)). People in the state are not
aware about their healthy and they do not care about their health their body, Most f the adult in
the Victoria are not become because they are not attached with the physical activities such as
excessive, yoga, waking etc. which creates problems for their body and also affect on their
metal health. It is important for the people to do exercise, so they can be fit and well. Psychical
fitness is directly connected with the metal health of the persona so they should do physical
exercise b s they can be fit.
Children in the Victoria are depressed because of their family problem which lead them
to attached with the bad habits such as smooching and drinking. This is most common among
the children nowadays but this also very dangerous for their health and create problems related
to their health. It is important for the parents of this child to take care of their child and spend
some time with them, so they can feel good, and they will not attach with the bad habits. This
problem is not only in the child but adult also used to drink and smoke which is creating
problem for their health they can have problem such as cancer, breathing problems and heart
decrease and this can lead them toward the death, so they should quest the smoking and start
eating healthy food and exercise to maintain their life and they can live better and well being
life. Poor health of the people in the Victoria is mostly because o the based habit so they
should regularly exercise and government should also look for this (Johnstone and et.al. (2019)).
They should reduce the public transport and encourage people to use the cycle which can be
best option. If people will use cycle instead of the electric vehicle then their health will be
good because cycle work through the human affects and this will be the best exercise for the
people and it will affect the environment as well and people will get health environment around
the whole state which will provide them good and healthy life to live and it will be good for
their health.

Discussion on three health determinants social, biological , environmental
Health and well being is compulsive by a complex interaction of single characteristics,
life style and the physical, social and economic environment (Buck et al. 2018). There is a range
of wider determinations on health and well being which includes the income of the person ,
early childhood experiences of the people, gender stereotypes, norms and expectations, education
of the person , employment, social inclusion, housing and geography, living and working
conditions of workplace, quality present in the air, soil and the water, and health systems These
wider determinants of health are integral to the long-term vision for public health and well being
in Victoria and must be thoughtful when we design and verbalize public health and well being
interventions (Jones, Harms and Heinen., (2016)). A whole-of-government commitment
underpins the plan, with place-based and co-design plans recognized as essential mechanisms for
driving improvements in public health and well being. Health of the people are depend on this
all factors. Social factors such as violence in the families in the Victoria create mental problem
in the children and they feel alone and depressed and this affect on their mind. Biological
determinants such as family history of the person can be repeated with their other
impregnation. Most of the people in the Victoria have problem of the over wight which is
because of their family history and their whole family have this problem. Overweight in the
person create many decrease in the human problems and many people are suffering because of
this in this state. Environmental condition such as climate change is the major problem in
Victoria and this is creating health problem in the people of the Victoria. This all the
determinants of the health and the well being of the person on the basis of the Social,
biological and environmental.
Health promotional initiative to address health issues in the area
Governmental body in the Victoria has developed the Victoria health and well-being
plan 2019 to 2023. this programs give their focus on the different different issues and one of the
major issues they are focusing in this plan to deduce Tobacco related harm. To address this
problem in the Victoria they will implement the new rules to reduce the use of tobacco in the
Victoria. According to the Statistics' National Health Survey in the Australia, the generality of
daily smoking for Australians aged 18 and over in 2017–18 was 13.7%, and 13.2% among
people aged 16 years and over. Forestall tobacco use was one of the five strategical abjuratory
known for action to modify the health of all Victorians. A 10-year goal was set that 400,000

more Victorians would be tobacco-free by 2023 which will lead them to good health and well
being.. Forestall uptake, advertising and supporting surcease, and reducing people's vulnerability
to second-hand tobacco smoke are the key principle to reduction harm from tobacco in Victoria.
World-leading innovation – led by Vic Health in business with the quit Victoria the Department
of Health and others – has halved the rate of Victorians n people who used to smoke daily to an
all-time low. Vic Health was established in 1987 with a tax on tobacco, pledged as part of the
Victorian Tobacco Act of that year. Since then, we have been a leading light in the fight for a
healthier, smoke-free Victoria (Sutton, Mulvenna, Voronoff & Humphrys. (2020)). This all
will come in the Victoria health and well-being plan 2019 to 2023 and despite in reducing the
overall smoking prevalence in the general population , Smoking rates are higher among the
most socially and economically disadvantaged groups. As such, a key focus of our current
investment in the quit Victoria is to engage with partners to increase the reach and impact of
smoking cessation within high smoking rate populations.
CONCLUSION
As per the report has been cover the study about Victorian public health and well being
plan 2019 and 2023. This report has been briefly explained the plan and cover each section of
the plan. It has been described the overall health plan and provide every information such as
when this plan started and what is the purpose of this plan. This report has been explain the
areas which should be mostly focused ( reduction in the Tobacco) It has been conclude the
factor which is affecting mostly to the Victorian people and provide brief description about it.
It has been discus about the three determination of the health which are social, biological and
environmental.

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