Fundamentals of Public Health: Science and Practice Assessment:
Introduction:
I have selected the Public health policy in smoking ban to provide an understanding of the key principles of the public health, discuss the key sociological and policy concepts and how these relate to health and healthcare. A case study will be used to describe the benefits of healthy life and the risk associated with unhealthy life style. I will also try to demonstrate an understanding of the strategies that encourage health promoting behaviours through health education, the role modelling and effective communication.
Public Health Policy on Smoking:
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, or positively, as fitness and wellbeing. Health also …show more content…
Sometimes this involves helping individuals; at other times it involves dealing with large factors (cultural, social or economic) that have an impact on the health of many people for example: age-group, ethnic group, locality, or country. (World Health Organisation) Acheson (1988) defined public health as ‘the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society’. This definition has emphasised the collaborative nature of public health work, which is normally seen as a collective rather than an individual view of the health needs and health care of a population Public health is a complex endeavour, requiring action to promote wellbeing, as well as to prevent illness (Tod and Hirst, 2014). A social model of public health recognises wider structural determinants of health including socio-economic, environmental and political influences (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 2007). In the most deprived communities, these determinants create multiple disadvantages that work together to reduce people’s health status (Tod and Hirst, 2014). The complexity requires a partnership approach with sustained action required of policy, industry, education, health services, health professionals and lay people (Tod and Hirst, …show more content…
The report published recently has highlighted a number of key public health challenges. Below is a list of the challenges as stated in the report: For some groups, people are dying relatively young, around 1 in 6 deaths occur before the age of 65;the leading causes of deaths are circulatory diseases, cancers and respiratory diseases, which together account for three quarters of deaths; nearly one quarter of the general population
Introduction:
I have selected the Public health policy in smoking ban to provide an understanding of the key principles of the public health, discuss the key sociological and policy concepts and how these relate to health and healthcare. A case study will be used to describe the benefits of healthy life and the risk associated with unhealthy life style. I will also try to demonstrate an understanding of the strategies that encourage health promoting behaviours through health education, the role modelling and effective communication.
Public Health Policy on Smoking:
Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, or positively, as fitness and wellbeing. Health also …show more content…
Sometimes this involves helping individuals; at other times it involves dealing with large factors (cultural, social or economic) that have an impact on the health of many people for example: age-group, ethnic group, locality, or country. (World Health Organisation) Acheson (1988) defined public health as ‘the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts of society’. This definition has emphasised the collaborative nature of public health work, which is normally seen as a collective rather than an individual view of the health needs and health care of a population Public health is a complex endeavour, requiring action to promote wellbeing, as well as to prevent illness (Tod and Hirst, 2014). A social model of public health recognises wider structural determinants of health including socio-economic, environmental and political influences (Dahlgren and Whitehead, 2007). In the most deprived communities, these determinants create multiple disadvantages that work together to reduce people’s health status (Tod and Hirst, 2014). The complexity requires a partnership approach with sustained action required of policy, industry, education, health services, health professionals and lay people (Tod and Hirst, …show more content…
The report published recently has highlighted a number of key public health challenges. Below is a list of the challenges as stated in the report: For some groups, people are dying relatively young, around 1 in 6 deaths occur before the age of 65;the leading causes of deaths are circulatory diseases, cancers and respiratory diseases, which together account for three quarters of deaths; nearly one quarter of the general population