Keeping us well-helping us get better
Introduction:
Health promoters collaborate with communities and organisations to find new methods to enhance
people's health. They also interact with government agencies to enhance the environment. It
expands beyond human behaviour to include a variety of social and environmental actions. Health
promotion, as a basic role of public health, assists governments, communities, and people in coping
with and addressing health issues.
Some or all of the following may be done by health promoters (Govt.nz, 2017):
cooperate with other agencies to coordinate health promotion programmes.
design policies, strategies, and programmes to improve health
Collaborate with schools and community organisations to discover health problems and
solutions.
oversee health-promotion initiatives
advocate for and lobby for health-related issues
NHS trusts are involved in a wide range of public health activities, from establishing alcohol
screening programmes to providing sexual health services and devising trust-wide public health
plans (Fenton, 2016).
Different types of health care providers:
The World Health Organization launched the Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) initiative more than
a decade ago to encourage hospitals to focus mostly on health promotion and preventing illness
rather than only diagnosis and therapeutic services.
The NHS Five Year Forward View outlined a strong vision for the NHS, much of which will involve a
public health and population-based strategy to developing, such as tough measures against obesity,
smoking, alcohol, and other health risks, as well as the implementation of a national diabetes
prevention programme.
To enhance health outcomes and fulfil the clinical requirements of the people of Stoke-on-Trent and
North Staffordshire, the Stoke-on-Trent CCG commission safe, accessible, high-quality services. They
will commission integrated care for their community's residents (from health service providers and
the volunteer sector) in a way that empowers them to take care of themselves, avoid disease, and
remain as independent as possible (Singh, 2017).
The goal of the Department of Health is to assist people live healthier and longer lives. We lead,
develop, and fund health and care in England, ensuring that individuals receive the support, care,
and treatment they require while also being treated with compassion, respect, and dignity.
Public health agencies have a critical new role to play in overseeing these changes in service
organisation and delivery, assuring capacity to care for all populations, supervising, estimating, and
refining quality, and understanding the link between changes in health service delivery and public
health (Apha.org, 2022).
The international community has realised how vital it is to develop health systems as a whole if key
global health goals are to be met. Success is dependent on having health systems capable of
effectively and efficiently performing critical functions and delivering essential services, ranging from
,the overarching health objectives of the Millennium Development Goals to the more focused
objectives of the many specific global health programmes (such as those for control of HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, and malaria), and from disease elimination/eradication programmes to those fighting
non-communicable diseases. The United States government's (USG) efforts in health in low-resource
settings have shifted their focus to health system strengthening (HSS). Health systems are defined by
the World Health Organization as all organisations, individuals, and actions whose primary goal is to
promote, restore, or preserve health. This encompasses both indirect preventative and therapeutic
interventions as well as initiatives to affect health determinants. Service delivery, deploying a well-
performing health staff, maintaining a working health information system, giving access to critical
medical items, vaccines, and technology, enough finance, and leadership and governance are the six
interdependent building blocks described by WHO.
What is the change4life campaign?
Obesity has tripled in the United Kingdom since the 1980s. In England, over a third of children and
two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. If current trends continue, only one out of every ten
adults will be at a healthy weight by 2050. This might result in a doubling of direct healthcare
expenses associated with overweight and obesity, with societal costs reaching £49.9 billion by 2050.
Change4Life is a Public Health England-led public health initiative that launched in January 2009. It's
the country's first nationwide social marketing programme aimed at combating obesity's causes.
Physical activity promotion for adults and children is a major emphasis of the programme.
The campaign reached 99 percent of targeted families
• 413,466 families joined Change4Life in the first 12 months
• Over 44,833 families were believed to still be involved with Change4Life after 6 months
• Over 1.9 million responses (postal, online, face-to-face, telephone) were received in year one
Change4life has suggested it will:
• Create a classification algorithm that would allow supplies to be affected to those individuals most
in need (i.e., whose attitudes and behaviours put their children at risk of additional weight gain)
• Provide insight into why those individuals have the attitudes and behave the way they do
• Provide 'things' (such as handbooks, surveys, wall charts, and online material) that individuals can
use to help them modify their behaviours by creating a communications campaign.
• Direct people to resources (breastfeeding cafés, accompanied walks, free swimming, and cooking
classes, for example).
Modelling and forecasting, as well as the integration of a variety of epidemiological, psychosocial,
(bio)medical, and other evidence, can be added to population health monitoring. Without public
health reporting, public health monitoring is ineffective (Eupha.org, 2022). The main goals of public
health reporting are to inform 'those who need to know' about the condition of a population's
health and to help the preparation and evaluative phases of health policy making and health care
planning. Monitoring the health of the population helps identify patterns of ill health and therefore,
, ensures that we can do something about it such as find a cure, or prevention method such as
vaccines, medications, and campaigns etc.
Individuals like children and the unemployed are at a higher risk of certain health conditions such as
obesity. When youngsters consume more calories than they require, their bodies store the excess
calories in fat cells for later use as energy. If their bodies do not require this stored energy,
additional fat cells form, and they may become obese. No single factor or behaviour causes obesity.
Obesity can be induced by a variety of factors, including a person's eating habits, lifestyle, and
surroundings and if children are exposed to this at a young age maybe due to parents not having the
resources to cook healthy balanced meals, poverty or simply just the possibility of ease then this can
put them at a higher risk of childhood obesity, which put them at a risk of developing a range of
health issues in the future such a type 2 diabetes. The unemployed are often lacking in money which
means they may go to the cheaper alternatives such as fast food to provide them nourishment. A
lack of money also means that they may not be able to afford good homes in places that may not
have open areas for them to exercise in or a back garden etc. Also, things such as gym memberships
may also not be accessible to them due to this financial barrier meaning they lack in physical activity
too. Combined with eating badly, lack of exercise can be one of the main contributors to obesity
among the unemployed, causing them to have many health risks as well.
A routine of regular health check-ups is known as health surveillance. They enable for the early
detection of illness and the subsequent remedial intervention that is required. These medical
examinations may be mandated by law.
Examples of Health Surveillance programmes:
Audiometry
Confined space medical
Display screen equipment
Forklift Mobile Plant and Company Driver Medicals
Healthy worker medicals
Lung function
Musculoskeletal Assessment
Night shift workers
Post offer medical
Safety critical medical
Dermatology
Vision testing
Working at height medical
(Health screen UK, 2019)
C.P5:
The goal of public health education is to assist groups of people, whether they are a close population
or a huge population. The development and execution of educational campaigns and programmes
meant to promote healthy settings, habits, and behaviours is the job of public health educators. The
overall purpose is for everyone to understand each other. A vital and necessary element of the
health promotion team is the health educator who employs targeted, theory-based interventions,
embraces notions of participation and voluntary change, and incorporates health literacy and
individual capacity-building into health programmes and services. For example, change4life is
something that is promoted in schools through the use of targeted education which helps tackle
childhood obesity. The Change4Life programme aims to encourage families to eat better and to
Introduction:
Health promoters collaborate with communities and organisations to find new methods to enhance
people's health. They also interact with government agencies to enhance the environment. It
expands beyond human behaviour to include a variety of social and environmental actions. Health
promotion, as a basic role of public health, assists governments, communities, and people in coping
with and addressing health issues.
Some or all of the following may be done by health promoters (Govt.nz, 2017):
cooperate with other agencies to coordinate health promotion programmes.
design policies, strategies, and programmes to improve health
Collaborate with schools and community organisations to discover health problems and
solutions.
oversee health-promotion initiatives
advocate for and lobby for health-related issues
NHS trusts are involved in a wide range of public health activities, from establishing alcohol
screening programmes to providing sexual health services and devising trust-wide public health
plans (Fenton, 2016).
Different types of health care providers:
The World Health Organization launched the Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) initiative more than
a decade ago to encourage hospitals to focus mostly on health promotion and preventing illness
rather than only diagnosis and therapeutic services.
The NHS Five Year Forward View outlined a strong vision for the NHS, much of which will involve a
public health and population-based strategy to developing, such as tough measures against obesity,
smoking, alcohol, and other health risks, as well as the implementation of a national diabetes
prevention programme.
To enhance health outcomes and fulfil the clinical requirements of the people of Stoke-on-Trent and
North Staffordshire, the Stoke-on-Trent CCG commission safe, accessible, high-quality services. They
will commission integrated care for their community's residents (from health service providers and
the volunteer sector) in a way that empowers them to take care of themselves, avoid disease, and
remain as independent as possible (Singh, 2017).
The goal of the Department of Health is to assist people live healthier and longer lives. We lead,
develop, and fund health and care in England, ensuring that individuals receive the support, care,
and treatment they require while also being treated with compassion, respect, and dignity.
Public health agencies have a critical new role to play in overseeing these changes in service
organisation and delivery, assuring capacity to care for all populations, supervising, estimating, and
refining quality, and understanding the link between changes in health service delivery and public
health (Apha.org, 2022).
The international community has realised how vital it is to develop health systems as a whole if key
global health goals are to be met. Success is dependent on having health systems capable of
effectively and efficiently performing critical functions and delivering essential services, ranging from
,the overarching health objectives of the Millennium Development Goals to the more focused
objectives of the many specific global health programmes (such as those for control of HIV/AIDS,
tuberculosis, and malaria), and from disease elimination/eradication programmes to those fighting
non-communicable diseases. The United States government's (USG) efforts in health in low-resource
settings have shifted their focus to health system strengthening (HSS). Health systems are defined by
the World Health Organization as all organisations, individuals, and actions whose primary goal is to
promote, restore, or preserve health. This encompasses both indirect preventative and therapeutic
interventions as well as initiatives to affect health determinants. Service delivery, deploying a well-
performing health staff, maintaining a working health information system, giving access to critical
medical items, vaccines, and technology, enough finance, and leadership and governance are the six
interdependent building blocks described by WHO.
What is the change4life campaign?
Obesity has tripled in the United Kingdom since the 1980s. In England, over a third of children and
two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese. If current trends continue, only one out of every ten
adults will be at a healthy weight by 2050. This might result in a doubling of direct healthcare
expenses associated with overweight and obesity, with societal costs reaching £49.9 billion by 2050.
Change4Life is a Public Health England-led public health initiative that launched in January 2009. It's
the country's first nationwide social marketing programme aimed at combating obesity's causes.
Physical activity promotion for adults and children is a major emphasis of the programme.
The campaign reached 99 percent of targeted families
• 413,466 families joined Change4Life in the first 12 months
• Over 44,833 families were believed to still be involved with Change4Life after 6 months
• Over 1.9 million responses (postal, online, face-to-face, telephone) were received in year one
Change4life has suggested it will:
• Create a classification algorithm that would allow supplies to be affected to those individuals most
in need (i.e., whose attitudes and behaviours put their children at risk of additional weight gain)
• Provide insight into why those individuals have the attitudes and behave the way they do
• Provide 'things' (such as handbooks, surveys, wall charts, and online material) that individuals can
use to help them modify their behaviours by creating a communications campaign.
• Direct people to resources (breastfeeding cafés, accompanied walks, free swimming, and cooking
classes, for example).
Modelling and forecasting, as well as the integration of a variety of epidemiological, psychosocial,
(bio)medical, and other evidence, can be added to population health monitoring. Without public
health reporting, public health monitoring is ineffective (Eupha.org, 2022). The main goals of public
health reporting are to inform 'those who need to know' about the condition of a population's
health and to help the preparation and evaluative phases of health policy making and health care
planning. Monitoring the health of the population helps identify patterns of ill health and therefore,
, ensures that we can do something about it such as find a cure, or prevention method such as
vaccines, medications, and campaigns etc.
Individuals like children and the unemployed are at a higher risk of certain health conditions such as
obesity. When youngsters consume more calories than they require, their bodies store the excess
calories in fat cells for later use as energy. If their bodies do not require this stored energy,
additional fat cells form, and they may become obese. No single factor or behaviour causes obesity.
Obesity can be induced by a variety of factors, including a person's eating habits, lifestyle, and
surroundings and if children are exposed to this at a young age maybe due to parents not having the
resources to cook healthy balanced meals, poverty or simply just the possibility of ease then this can
put them at a higher risk of childhood obesity, which put them at a risk of developing a range of
health issues in the future such a type 2 diabetes. The unemployed are often lacking in money which
means they may go to the cheaper alternatives such as fast food to provide them nourishment. A
lack of money also means that they may not be able to afford good homes in places that may not
have open areas for them to exercise in or a back garden etc. Also, things such as gym memberships
may also not be accessible to them due to this financial barrier meaning they lack in physical activity
too. Combined with eating badly, lack of exercise can be one of the main contributors to obesity
among the unemployed, causing them to have many health risks as well.
A routine of regular health check-ups is known as health surveillance. They enable for the early
detection of illness and the subsequent remedial intervention that is required. These medical
examinations may be mandated by law.
Examples of Health Surveillance programmes:
Audiometry
Confined space medical
Display screen equipment
Forklift Mobile Plant and Company Driver Medicals
Healthy worker medicals
Lung function
Musculoskeletal Assessment
Night shift workers
Post offer medical
Safety critical medical
Dermatology
Vision testing
Working at height medical
(Health screen UK, 2019)
C.P5:
The goal of public health education is to assist groups of people, whether they are a close population
or a huge population. The development and execution of educational campaigns and programmes
meant to promote healthy settings, habits, and behaviours is the job of public health educators. The
overall purpose is for everyone to understand each other. A vital and necessary element of the
health promotion team is the health educator who employs targeted, theory-based interventions,
embraces notions of participation and voluntary change, and incorporates health literacy and
individual capacity-building into health programmes and services. For example, change4life is
something that is promoted in schools through the use of targeted education which helps tackle
childhood obesity. The Change4Life programme aims to encourage families to eat better and to
