The determinants of health impact directly on risk behaviours that in turn affect health outcomes. According to Marmot and Wilkinson (2006) increasing deprivation due to things such as poor housing is associated with increase in risk of morbidity and mortality. Because much of people’s income is going towards housing, little is left for the other necessities. Meaning people cannot afford what they actually need and what is really healthy for them. Bad nutrition is an example of this. People cannot afford the right foods and find it easier and more affordable to have a high fat diet (Ministry of Health (MOH), 2002). For example according to Freeman (2007), fast food has become a staple diet for people in poor housing due to having low-income.
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Building healthy public policy is about ensuring policy makers are tackling health issues in all sectors, making the healthiest choice the easiest choice (WHO, 1986). One way of ensuring that people have access to good housing is building policy around ensuring all homes are insulated and have adequate heating. This could be done through identifying high-risk homes for coldness and dampness or targeting low-income families identified, possibly through survey or an application form. Then reduce the cost of insulation and heating for these people according to need. This will ensure that the most needy have appropriate access to well-insulated and heated homes. Another area that will need to be targeted is around making housing affordable. Policies need to be set up which give people the ability to purchase good housing in relation to their household situation. This could be through subsidy, where identified people are given aid to help purchase suitable home. This will help decrease ill health due to damp and cold housing and also ensure that people still have money available for other necessities after they have paid for …show more content…
And promotes healthy living (WHO, 1986). A way in which this could be done is once people have been set up in a home, have someone visit a couple of times in the first few weeks to see how things are going and to assist with anything. If help is wanted they could teach them or help them understand ways of keeping a healthy home in which the resident could implement. Another way of creating a supportive environment could be through creating vegetable gardens in homes. This means they would have fresh vegetables available to them at easy access. Resulting in them not having to purchase vegetables every week but could also mean that families are actually eating vegetables. This could also link to fruit; by ensuring fruit trees are planted around the house for easy access to fruit. Creating Supportive environments can also mean ensuring all homes have insulation and a heating system through creating policy that demands this. Creating supportive environments means that housing is of high standard and promotes healthy
Building healthy public policy is about ensuring policy makers are tackling health issues in all sectors, making the healthiest choice the easiest choice (WHO, 1986). One way of ensuring that people have access to good housing is building policy around ensuring all homes are insulated and have adequate heating. This could be done through identifying high-risk homes for coldness and dampness or targeting low-income families identified, possibly through survey or an application form. Then reduce the cost of insulation and heating for these people according to need. This will ensure that the most needy have appropriate access to well-insulated and heated homes. Another area that will need to be targeted is around making housing affordable. Policies need to be set up which give people the ability to purchase good housing in relation to their household situation. This could be through subsidy, where identified people are given aid to help purchase suitable home. This will help decrease ill health due to damp and cold housing and also ensure that people still have money available for other necessities after they have paid for …show more content…
And promotes healthy living (WHO, 1986). A way in which this could be done is once people have been set up in a home, have someone visit a couple of times in the first few weeks to see how things are going and to assist with anything. If help is wanted they could teach them or help them understand ways of keeping a healthy home in which the resident could implement. Another way of creating a supportive environment could be through creating vegetable gardens in homes. This means they would have fresh vegetables available to them at easy access. Resulting in them not having to purchase vegetables every week but could also mean that families are actually eating vegetables. This could also link to fruit; by ensuring fruit trees are planted around the house for easy access to fruit. Creating Supportive environments can also mean ensuring all homes have insulation and a heating system through creating policy that demands this. Creating supportive environments means that housing is of high standard and promotes healthy