Concepts of Promoting Health and Key Agencies in Health Promotion

Build healthy policy

TASK 1
Concepts of promoting health 
Health promotion ensures to predict and establish trends, possible outcomes and health needs relevant to care service provisions and diseases control. It enables people to improve quality of life. 

Health promotion highlights in five main areas such as build healthy policy, create supportive environment, strengthen community actions, develop personal skills and re-orient health services. 

Elaboration of some actions: 
Build healthy public policy Puts health on agenda of policy makers. It combines approaches like legislation, taxation and organisational change leading to health, social policies and income to foster great equity. Its contribution involves in safe and healthier environments. The government sector are concerned with trade when formulating policies and accountable for health consequences of the decisions. 

Example:
-    Fiscal taxes on products like cigarette or alcohol for health behaviour encouragement Strengthen community actions Works through effective community action in setting priorities by making decisions, planning strategies to implement them for better health. The development draws on material resources within community to enhance social support to develop strengthening of public participation requiring information access and opportunities for health and funding support. Concept of action depends on the setting such as formal which includes schools and informal such as communities.

Example:
-    Self-help groups or organised community services 

Their main aim is to raise awareness goal of health issues by predicting and establishing trends. They increase control over an individual’s health covering range of social and environmental interventions as it addresses and prevents root cause of ill health. 

Heath promotion elements:

Good governance for health Requires policy makers across government department. It’s supported by regulations such as aligning tax policies on unhealthy foods which are high in sugar and fat and harmful products such as alcohol and tobacco. 

Health cities 

Strong leadership is vital to healthy urban planning and prevent measures in communities as well as in primary health care facilities evolving healthy cities and healthier world to influence culture. 

Health promotion 
Formal health promotion This is a planned strategy to improve people’s health and a great collaboration between different organisations and agencies who deliver health promotion. Example includes media such as TV, radio and newspapers as they spread awareness to large audiences quickly helping to change behaviour of individuals. 

Public health campaigns develop interventions and address peer norms. They educate public and set agenda for public debate encouraging in healthy behaviours such as adopting healthy lifestyles including exercise, nutrition and stress reduction. Research methods Methods predicts and establishes trends, outcomes and needs relevant to disease control and practice in healthcare. 

Quantitative research method
Quantitative data is used to study human concepts. It gives biological and scientific facts of patient’s conditions useful to confirm a specific theory and measuring awareness of a problem. It generates numerical data by employing logical techniques. 

Their objective is to examine cause and effect relationship between variables. Method used are surveys, questionnaires and observations. Sampling type is random and research type is conclusive. 

Quantitative research are structured and collected for a specific evaluation or project through surveys, uses rating scales. Surveys are done over phone, internet or in person (paper/pencil). Clinical trials are experimental research project that’s carried on volunteers to find out how well procedure will work or the drug and identify the risk factors. 

Qualitative research method
Qualitative method is used to explore a concept and discover ideas used in ongoing processes. The method provides an in depth understanding of people’s experiences and histories in context of personal circumstances. It uses elements of analysis used by words or pictures.

Their method is non-structured such as in depth interviews or group discussions to develop initial understanding. The process is carried by interacting with participants. It permits research via dynamic data collection which is creative to suit the subject engaging in patient empowerment. It is addressed via evaluation of the data to fully understand the patient by listening directly which allows researcher to compare relationships between variables.

TASK 2
Key agencies in health promotion 
NHS
Improves population health via local health and care system. They help tackle complex issues like multi morbidity and become part of interventions that address people’s social context and underlying causes of ill health. 

Building action on social determinants into services:
-    Includes prevention of major risk factors like smoking and alcohol, using screening to make earlier diagnosis.
Improve health and wellbeing of NHS workforce.

Social care services
Social workers can be required to aid with issues directly caused by trauma, poor family circumstances, abuse, mental and emotional problems or addictions. There are many different specialisations.

Public health social workers 
-    Responsible for helping people who have been diagnosed with chronic or life threatening disorders. 
-    Service includes support groups
Addiction and mental health social workers 
-    Support those struggling with unhealthy grounding techniques connecting them with facilities
-    Services the workers provide are group counselling