UNIT 8, PROMOTING PUBLIC HEALTH...

This essay focusses on public health describing various elements in the subject such as; the definition of Public Health; strategies used to develop public health policy in order for it to meet it's aims, how monitoring information to determine patterns of health and ill health is used by government to inform the creation of public health policy, factors affecting current patterns of health and ill health in a specific demographic area, how approaches to health promotion and protection have been applied in a selected health promotion campaign, how approaches to prevention and control have been applied in a selected campaign, Analyse how public health policy is influenced by strategies and patterns of health and ill health, Assess the extent to which factors affect current patterns of health and ill health, with reference to a specific demographic area, Assess how minimizing the factors affecting health can contribute to improving the health of the population in relation to the area, Assess the success of approaches used to promote and protect health and prevent disease in a selected health promotion campaign, Analyse how theories or models and approaches have been used in a selected health promotion campaign to overcome barriers and increase public awareness, how far the use of strategies and monitoring the health status of the population helps public health policy to meet its aims in reducing the factors that influence public health, with reference to a specific demographic area, Justification of the approaches used to promote and protect health and prevent disease in a selected health promotion campaign, and also Evaluation of the success of a specific public health campaign in encouraging behavior change in relation to health.