HEALTH PROMOTION

Public Health and Health Promotion: A Question of choice?

Public Health and Health Promotion: A Question of choice?

Introduction

This assignment comprises of a number of sections each demonstrating a different learning outcome which has been ascertained throughout this module, to begin with we will discuss contemporary public health and health promotions, further we will also discuss social determinants of health and coronary heart disease.

Discussion

Contemporary public health and health promotion issues

Public health encompasses around making sure that people around us are healthy and ensuring that it stays that way by avoiding any slight possibility of getting ill. In order to promote public health a number of initiatives have been in practice for instance immunisation, nutrition, sexual health and children's health. Adamson (2012) specifies that a number of researches are being conducted for the purpose of understanding the interdependency of health, society and behavioural sciences.

Health promotion issues

Health promotion implies towards keeping oneself healthy living healthy lifestyle prevention from any illnesses and preventing any prevalent illness from getting any worse. The world health organisation defines health promotion as a process which enables people to gain control over their health and its determinants which will overall help improve their health (WHO, 2005). The aim of health promotion is to educate the public on how to ensure their community is healthy. Health promotions and public health have indeed come a very long way and have been the reason why some major epidemics were identified and controlled. The issues that arise while health promotions are mostly ethical ones, for instance proportionality is a huge issue in various situations identifying the root cause behind an epidemic may become difficult and the results provided may be inadequate and inaccurate. Since the overall aim of health promotion is to ensure the wellbeing of people autonomy holds significant importance since if the data obtained is not gained ethically then the whole data loses authenticity. In the case of health promotions, scientific evidence based on quantitative data is more likely to harm health promotion since this data does not help in further understanding the outcomes of health promotions

Interventions in the field of public health and health promotion

Health promotions have helped identify high risk behaviour which can lead to serious health issues in order to bring awareness and familiarize people with the consequences of their actions various public health interventions have been implemented, the major areas which are considered to be high risk behaviour and is most likely to lead to the development of some serious ailment. Some of the initiatives taken by various institutions are to let people know the consequences of their actions and that by indulging in these activities people are not just harming themselves but also the overall community.

Tobacco usage

The purpose of this initiation is to reduce the overall usage of tobacco and reduce the environments exposure to tobacco smoke. The initiatives taken include, increasing the per unit price of tobacco and the price of tobacco products. Placing restrictions on any minor purchasing tobacco, using the media to educate ...