Health Needs Assessment Project: Adolescent Females in Walsall

This project is a health needs assessment conducted for adolescent females (aged 11-16) in Walsall, West Midlands, England. The assessment identifies the geographical area, target population, and two key health needs: obesity and mental ill-health. The project prioritizes mental ill-health, specifically focusing on depression and anxiety, citing compelling national and local evidence, including data indicating higher rates of mental health disorders in Walsall compared to the national average. The assessment aligns with local health priorities and existing initiatives, emphasizing the greatest impact and cost-effectiveness. The project provides justification for prioritizing mental health, considering its significant impact on adolescent well-being and future health outcomes. It also includes references to relevant research and literature supporting the findings and recommendations for interventions to address the identified health needs, such as improving social contacts and implementing emotional and physical wellbeing programs.

4NH039 Project Proforma
STEP Project Criteria Example Your Health Needs Assessment
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Step 1
Identify a local geographical
area
Geographical area of Walsall
Walsall is one of the most known market town and administrative centre in the
country of West Midlands, England which was historically part of Staffordshire, it is
located nearly 8 miles north west of Brimingham, 6 miles east of Wolverhampton
and 9 miles from Lichfield . Walsall is the administrative centre of the wider
Metropolitan Borough of Walsall where the climate is suitable and highly recorded to
bring about best parameters of living standards for people living within. Wallsall is
one of the most important centre located within market areas and to bring on new
synergy of market paradigms to pertain onto new rational working patterns for
bringing out best fundamentals onto new rational parameters of living standards for
all age group people.
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Step 2
Choose a target population
within your geographical area
based upon a life stage of
human development
Adolescent females aged 11-
16
The age group of females between age of 11-16 within the area are facing major
health issues due to increasing obesity and mental health issues due to which there
have been coming rise to various health problems pertaining to not only impact
health factors but also slowly affecting the living scenario around within the city. The
justification for choosing this age group of people can be understood with the fact
that adolescent females are facing major health concerns where data shows mental
and physical health issues such as higher blood pressure, low active energy to work
effectively. The increasing obesity and mental illness have been highly recorded
within data to be one of the most important reason for bringing slow inactivity and
major inclination of depression and increased remorse. Adolescent people have been
becoming major heath lowered group people within world where there has been
recorded higher cases of low active working parameters and high changes coming
within their diets, medical history has also been one of the most important paradigm
to lower the productive working standards.
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Step 3
Identify and justify 2 needs
within your target population
based upon the evidence you
have found exploring your
geographical area
1. Obesity
2. Mental ill-health
Obesity and mental health are the two identified area of needs within the chosen area
of population where there are major health issues coming up among adolescent
females who are facing high risk from various parameters of health concerns.
Obesity gives rise to various illness and new diseases such as higher blood pressure,
diabetes and breathing problems due to less inactive lifestyle which will not only
lower the productive working for bigger time periods but also impact living
standards. Mental ill health is also one of the most important issue within health
coming up where data shows that depression, anxiety and various other continuous
health problems are coming up. The mental health has various long lasting impact on
their higher living standards where impacts have been showing how mental ill health
increases risk on physical well being also.
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Prioritise 1 of the 2 needs and
justify this choice based upon:
 Compelling evidence
 Local and national
priorities
 Greatest impact
 Existing initiatives and
services
 Service User choice
 Cost effectiveness
Mental ill-health focussing
upon depression and anxiety
Nationally evidence shows:
 20% of adolescents
may experience a
mental health
problem in any given
year.
 50% of mental health
problems are
established by age 4
and 75% by age 24.
 10% of children and
young people (aged 5-
16 years) have a
clinically diagnosable
mental problem
Locally evidence shows:
The incidence of common
mental health disorders in
Walsall is higher than national
average
This is aligns with local
priorities:
 Walsall’s JSNA
 Health & Wellbeing
Strategy Walsall
 Emotional wellbeing
and mental health
needs assessment
 Public Health Walsall
2015 Children and
Obesity is the health need which is prioritised due to various negative health impacts,
local and national health priority coming up as there are recorded cases of adolescent
females within the city and nearby areas. The obesity health issue not only impacts
lower hormonal growth among young people where overweight heath problems lead
to major concerns impacting various working standards within their personal
working paradigms (Gasier, Allen and Swift, 2018). The obesity has major impact
within physical and psychological well being aspects where higher diabetes, thyroid
and various health issues lowers the active functional standards to provide new
working strength of restorative energy. The data shows nearly 60% people are obese
within city and major health problems have been lowering rapid fundamental well
being into all female age groups of people. The obesity not only impacts blood sugar
level body but increasing inactivity within their bodies also impact their mental
strength and the fundamental well being to gain on new productive parameters .
Obesity is one of the most important health problem coming up within young age
people due to high intoxication of fast foods and various oily foods which give rise to
various health problems and collection of fat within body. The overweight people are
not able to live comfortable healthy life as there is no activeness within body as there
are less new hormones growth within body which not only lowers various new
active working patterns but also keenly lowers blood supply (Donnan, Flatt and Rock,
2016). Active new blood cells are not formed where fattening of blood and muscles
give rise to active new working scenario.
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What is the aim / purpose of
your initiative?
Aim of reducing
communication barriers,
improving support
mechanisms and social
connections to prevent and
improve their mental health
Health promotion is highly important to bring in wide parameters of change within
body and health activities within obesity patients by spreading large awareness for
obesity and its health problems (Justice, Winkler, and Ngwa, 2017).
The programs of active lifestyle such as various yoga and regular exercises group
activities along with regular health checkups shall be conducted to bring on various
new changes and new lifestyle where there will be guidance of diets by doctors and
health specialists to bring on new cultural changes. The aim of this program will be
to bring active lifestyle changes with good healthy diet and make them motivate for
healthcare, willingness to share their mental health problems along . Obesity is
highly toxic problem which has also given rise to major health issues where people
specially the younger age problems are facing high scale problems to restore their
energies as it also lowers the body activeness to bring on new synergy of working
standards. Obesity is highly one of the biggest problem coming up in young females
making them less immune with health problems coming on within future for
bringing on viable positioning . The promotion of health problem and active
promotion by doctors and healthcare specialists to bring on new factors of working
standards where people get all active information to improve their health aspects
further. The aim of this initiative and program of obesity awareness will help young
age people and various other sections of people to bring on various helpful
developed parameters for technically bringing on various new parameters for
bringing best standards (Rock, Flatt, Natarajan, 2016).
Summarise how the health of
the target population will be
improved.
The mental health of female
teenagers aged between 12-
16 years living in Walsall will
The health of target population within the discussed age group of female adolescents
where there are major health problems recognised such as obesity and mental health
illness which gives rise to various new working paradigms such as various new
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improve preventing the
possible onset of depression
or anxiety. This will be
achieved by improving social
contacts and subsequently
reducing isolation; improving
emotional and physical well-
being and resilience
programs and scales of working under focus to bring on more keen synergy of
profitability. The report can be summarised by the following explanation where
varied business parameters are focused to bring on new rational working parameters
with continuous working force by health care specialists and doctors who are one of
the most active working strength to bring on new synergy of natural sciences.
Obesity of not controlled and proper care given to various health provisions with best
care and natural physical well being to develop new rational working force of huge
natural body growth. The programs of health care and checkups by doctors play
huge role to bring on new working progression, spread awareness of obesity and
mental health through which wider scale progression can be built on for wider health
care concerns (Sufahani, Ahmad and Seman, 2016).
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REFRENCES
Books and journals
Donnan, M.S.H.D., Flatt, S.W., and Rock, C.L., 2016. Factors associated with tocopherol status in obese women: effects of diet composition and weight loss. Vitam
Miner, 5(147), pp.2376-1318.
Gasier, H.G., Yu, T., Allen, M.R. and Swift, J.M., 2018. The beneficial effects of low-dose carbon monoxide and moderate intensity endurance exercise on metabolic and
skeletal properties. The FASEB Journal, 32(1_supplement), pp.719-9.
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