Wellbeing in Society: Analysis of Global Trends Report

This report provides an executive summary on wellbeing in society, analyzing global and national trends, particularly concerning young people. It emphasizes the importance of education about early disease signs, the impact of global health initiatives during the pandemic, and the role of support groups in mitigating suicidal tendencies. The report explores two key concepts of wellbeing: social and physical wellbeing, highlighting their impact on overall health, especially considering lifestyle changes and the COVID-19 pandemic. It suggests strategies like maintaining social connections, raising disease awareness, and utilizing therapies and psychiatric consultations to enhance emotional and psychological wellbeing. The discussion section delves into emerging sociological issues like the pandemic's impact on society and young people, and the two concepts of wellbeing agenda for young people with measures of wellbeing. The report also discusses strategies and initiatives to enhance wellbeing, offering a comprehensive overview of the topic.

WELLBEING IN SOCIETY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
In the present report global and national trends related to emergence of well-being has
been discussed. It has been analysed that in order to enhance health and well-being better
education related to early signs and symptoms of disease must be given. It has also been
evaluated that better global health initiatives have been taken in order to enhance health outcome
of younger people during the time of pandemic. Several support groups have been opened which
supports younger people so that their suicidal tendencies can be reduced down and also, they can
control their feelings, emotions and thoughts in these tough times. This has assisted in enhancing
health outcome of younger people. In this report two main important concepts of wellbeing have
been discussed that are social and physical wellbeing. Social and physical wellbeing directly
impacts overall health of young people. It has been analysed that due to change in lifestyle,
living condition, changing priorities of people their physical and social wellbeing is getting
impacted drastically. Current pandemic situation of Covid-19 has also impacted their overall
wellbeing. Due to this situation both physical and social wellbeing of people is impacted in a
drastic manner. In order to enhance overall wellbeing of young people various kinds of strategies
can be focused upon like remaining connected to family and friends virtually high social media,
video call etc. It has also been analysed that awareness related to diseases have been raised up, so
that it become easier to cope with problems. Therapies are being given to overcome fears and
have a control over thoughts during pandemic situation. For improving their emotional and
psychological well-being, they can also be involved in communicating to a psychiatrist.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
DISCUSSION..................................................................................................................................2
Emerging sociological issues.......................................................................................................2
Two concepts of wellbeing agenda for Young people with measures of Wellbeing..................3
Strategies and initiatives that seek to enhance well-being...........................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Well-being can be defined as the term related to health, happiness and well-being of an
individual. It consists of having better mental and physical health, high life satisfaction and the
ability to cope with stress (Ginsburg and et.al., 2017). Feelings of wellbeing are fundamental to
the overall health of an individual. It can assist an individual to overcome various psychological
and emotional problems faced by them. Young people are those who are covered between the
age of 14-17. They can be categorising into young adults
Global and national trend emergence of well-being:
Global health can be understood as health of populations based on global context. There
are various emerging trends related to maintaining global health and well-being. Principles
related to well-being includes that one should be involved in meeting needs of diverse groups.
There should be no inequities related to health care services and fair access to well-being
services must be provided to everyone (Ginsburg and et.al., 2017). They are being designed to
meet out the diverse culture and economic needs of region.
Inequality
It has been analysed that poor young people are provided with unfair access to treatment.
They are not being given proper treatment and also, they do not have adequate resources because
of which their health outcome and conditions can be enhanced or improved.
Long-term relationship and collaboration should be maintained as this will lead to
sustained improvement in health outcome. There has been a historical development in health and
well-being agenda. For young people health promotion and good rehabilitation facilities must be
provided and also, they must be motivated to follow safe working practices and guidelines. There
mental health needs to be given utmost priority. They should be motivated to follow effective
risk management and stress management policies. It has been analysed that in order to enhance
health and well-being better education related to early signs and symptoms of disease must be
given. It has also been evaluated that better global health initiatives have been taken in order to
enhance health outcome of younger people during the time of pandemic. It has been analysed
that poor young people are not given with better treatment, so there health outcome suffer
because of this.
social dominance of health
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Health inequalities is basically the condition in which people work live and grow. Poor
health and poverty go together. There are chances that poor people whether young or old are not
given with adequate health related treatment so that their well-being enhances. Research has
provided that people who live in poor society lives shorter. They also have no knowledge related
to early signs and symptoms of disease (Hernando-Amado, Coque, Baquero and Martínez,
2019). Social and political change related to health system are mobilised in order to meet out
social determinants of health. In this treatment is provided to people globally in-spite of their
colour, religion and cultural background. Skills and abilities of local car givers and health care
professionals are enhanced and better education is given to them so that they can meet out global
health and well-being needs. From past research it has been found that young people are
indulging more and more in jobs, or fulfilling their responsibilities towards their families because
of which they do not focus upon doing some physical activities (Kleszczewska, Szkutnik,
Siedlecka and Mazur, 2019). Lack of any kind of physical activity does affect overall welling of
people. some of those factors are: healthy living environment and conditions, economic
condition of family and many more.
DISCUSSION
Emerging sociological issues
Society is at large risk because of emerging sociological issue like COVID-19. During
these pandemic times, the virus may vanish sooner or later, but the impact on society is
unavoidable. Society outlook has been changed and taking better security measures is core duty
of society. Compliance to new security measures is the foremost responsibility of everyone.
Public awareness and education must be given related to social distancing measures that needs to
be taken by everyone in this pandemic time (Gregg and Shaw, 2017). The psychological and
social impact of novel corona virus is on young and old people both. Children, college students,
hospitality and health care workers are the most suffered population. The health, happiness and
prosperity of young people has suffered because the global pandemic. This is because
government has implemented restrictions on movements which has increased anxiety of young
people (Chokshi, 2018). They have developed post traumatic disorder, stress and anxiety as so
many of them has lost their jobs as well as career. Social distancing and security measures has
affected relationship of so many people. The health and well-being of an individual is reduced
and also it has affected severely their quality of life. Pandemic has led to prolonged exposure to
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stress. It has increased the number of patients suffering from anxiety, stress and psychological
trauma. Younger people are also unable to cope up with their emotions thus increasing suicide
episodes.
Two concepts of wellbeing agenda for Young people with measures of Wellbeing
Wellbeing is a kind of positive health outcome that helps people and society to remain
healthy. There are various kinds of concepts of wellbeing but two most important concepts of
wellbeing are: physical wellbeing and social wellbeing (Francis, Cross, Schultz, Armstrong,
Nguyen and Branch-Smith, 2020).
Relationship: Emotional well-being of young people can be improved when they have positive
relationship with their family members, friends and significant others. This is because social
relationship are psychological contributors for the well-being of an individual. When they have
satisfactory relationship with others, young people can be found at peace. Better social
relationship can assist an individual to stay away from feeling of depression and sadness. There
are so many studies which has proved that relationships are an important element for physical
progress of an individual. It also assists them in adjusting to their social environment. They can
even become emotionally mature, so it means that relationships have a positive impact on well-
being of young adults. Better relationship can also lay positive impact on mental health aspects
of young people. Mental health can also affect the relationships, so in order to make better
relationship Public health England has taken various initiatives. In this people with severe mental
health problems will receive physical health checks every year. This way their mental health will
be improved. An individual must have better relationship with other as this can assist them in
staying away from loneliness (Yavuz, 2019). This factor can become a risky element as being
lonely can make an individual depressed and anxious. Improving and enhancing current
relationship with closed ones a key to happiness and better well-being. This can enhance one’s
health outcome and also can lower down their feeling of anxiety, depression and sadness. One of
the best ways to nurture relationship is to give gratitude to their partners. This can enhance
productivity and well-being of young people. There self confidence and esteem can also be
increased while maintaining positive relationship. Maintaining better relationship can have
positive impact on physical, emotional and psychological well-being. They can also overcome
any type of problem when young people have better support with them. Relationships can be
improved while being a good listener. Young people can also have better healthy practices and
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maintaining healthy life style. Better relationship can also assist them in learning something new
which is better for life of young people, they can grow and achieve whatever they want. It is they
key to happiness for having better life ahead. There are four ways through which an individual
can live better and satisfactory life. They can have better relationship with others, so that they
have better and healthy life.
Happiness: The key to better and healthy life is being happy and satisfied for what you have and
maintain positive relationship. For being happy one should have better relationship with their
friends and family members. They should also have healthy and nutrient diet and better life style
which can assist them in growing and achieving set target and objectives. There are various
factors which can affect happiness like for example having enough sleep, better relationship with
partners. This can bring them happiness and also young people well-being can be improved
through this. When an individual is satisfied, they can also become more productive and also,
they will be able to grow and achieve what they want in life. Being happy is one of the most
important well-being agenda. For being happy even better relationship needs to be maintained
(Bum. and Jeon, 2016). They can be developed by being a good listener. Anyone can overcome
their life problems if young adults have better relationship with their parents. Research has
suggested that well-being and happiness goes hand in hand. If any young adult is physically and
emotionally not well then, they cannot be happy. So, for happiness they need to keep their
physical and psychological conditions well (Liu and Da, 2020). Young adults should also make
sure that they have better balance on their positive and negative emotions. This is really
important in being happy and satisfied. If they are not happy, they can also be engaged in
communicating with a therapist. Thus, allowing them to solve their mental and physical
problems which they might be facing in their lives. This can also assist them in being more
productive. Being happy also means that young people will also not be surrounded by feelings of
depression, anxiety and sadness. For better well-being they should also make sure to be engaged
in taking reducing stress strategies so that their health outcome can also be enhanced. This will
also assist young adults in taking better life decisions. Taking adequate decisions can also lead
them to happiness. It will have positive impact on their well-being.
Strategies and initiatives that seek to enhance well-being
There are various strategies which needs to be taken in order to enhance well-being of
younger people during the time of pandemic. As so many countries have taken measures to
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restrict movement because of this reason school, colleges and workplaces have shut down which
has increased stress and depression among younger people. In order to overcome fear, younger
people should be engaged in having life style changes so that their well-being can be enhanced.
In this if movement is restricted, they can be engaged in communicating with their close
members through social media and other apps. A healthy diet can also lay positive impact on
mental and emotional well-being of young people. They must make sure that they are being
involved in consuming diet which consists of lots of fibre. There are various public health
initiatives taken in England in order to enhance happiness of young adults. They can feel sad by
smoking and drinking, so NHS has taken initiatives so that young people stop smoking and be
happy. It has been analysed that the Ottawa Model for smoking cessation will be embedded in all
Trusts by 2023 to 2024, meaning every person admitted to hospital who smokes will be offered
support to quit (Törrönen, 2020). They should maintain healthy relationship with food so that
eating disorders can be reduced down. Several support groups have been opened which supports
younger people so that their suicidal tendencies can be reduced down and also, they can control
their feelings, emotions and thoughts in these tough times. All these techniques are being
adopted to enhance health and well-being (Kino and Kawachi, 2018). UNICEF and CHILDLINE
are providing support so to children and adolescents and even to their care giver. They are giving
them guidelines related to how to prevent corona virus and also how to have better thinking
during these times. For improving their emotional and psychological well-being, they can also be
involved in communicating to a psychiatrist(Wang and et.al., 2020).. In this they can be engaged
in taking cognitive behavioural therapy where they can overcome their fear and also have better
control over what they think and how they react. This is really necessary for well being and time
and health outcome and well-being of younger people will also be enhanced with the help of this.
This can also assist in reducing down their post traumatic disorders and stress. It will help the
younger people in leading better and healthy life. Their quality of life will be improved.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been summarized that wellbeing is one of the most
important aspect which is required to be focused upon by people in order to remain healthy and
happy. It helps in remain healthy mentally, physically and emotionally. Not only this it can help
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an individual to overcome various kinds off issues or problems faced by them that are either
psychological or emotional. It has also been summarized that there are various kinds of aspects
that impact overall wellbeing of an individual but mostly inequality and other social
determinants affects overall health of an individual. Current pandemic situation of Covid-19 has
drastically impacted overall health and wellbeing of an individual. People have lost touch with
their close family members or friends have reduced interaction with others because of which
their overall physical wellbeing has been impacted drastically. As a result, isolation has become
one of the main problems because of which their social wellbeing is getting impacted. This
situation has impacted physical wellbeing and overall quality of life of people as well. It has also
been concluded that there are various kinds of strategies that can be used for enhancing overall
wellbeing of young people like healthy diet can be adopted by them, virtual interaction can be
increased by remain connected with friends and family virtually.
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