Choosing Health

The most important aims of protecting and promoting health were to make sure that they improve the health of the public and also to lower health inequalities within the UK. Government was the main reason why they introduced lots of official documents, reports and legislations in order to improve the health across the public. Since the government have introduces the white paper in 2004 which was Choosing Health: Making Healthy Choices Easier, there has been a lot of improvement across the public health as life expectancy has gone up over the last century, so which means that people are living longer due to lots of facilities around them. The government also looked at people who were at mostly at risk of ill health to reduce the current and future …show more content…
This programme would allow people to get advice, motivation and practical support on their lifestyle health issues within their local community. Health trainers mainly support people who are at greater risk of poor health or people who live in disadvantage areas. Health trainers give advice and support to individuals about healthy living and advice them in how they can make healthier lifestyle choices, so they can live a healthy life and lower the chances in getting life threatening diseases such as coronary heart disease and stroke. This reason behind this programme which was that individuals would respond to health trainers and that they would get better results. Health trainers are usually from the community where the individual is from so they would they what problem or issues they have within the area. Health trainers work with individuals on a one to one basis so that they can examine the individual’s health and lifestyle risks. Health trainers can also motivate individuals to exercise more, help them to stop smoking and many more. …show more content…
One of the common methods is media to promote public health. This is done by advertisements which are made to for the radio or for the television and through news update from channels such as, BBC news and Sky news. The internet is another method for promoting health by advertisements on websites. There are also websites which contain information and advice on health such as the NHS or BBC. There are also a lot of websites of the common diseases like cancer which contain information on how to prevent this disease and if they develop this disease then they have guidance on what to do. One of the main website of cancer is ‘Cancer Research’. Another website is the British heart foundation which supports people with heart conditions. One method to promote and protect health is the campaigns. There are different campaigns such as, healthy eating campaigns and national no smoking day campaigns. Within the UK there are about 5000 campaigns which support national no smoking day. The national no smoking day campaigns are considered as the most effective and best awareness and have proved the campaign of protecting and promoting public health. Since the campaign has started 10% of adults of stopped smoking which automatically decreased the chances of risk of illnesses and all the related diseases such as heart and lung diseases as well as cancer. Healthy eating campaigns support people who are overweight and are at risk