Approach to Successful Implementation of a Public Health Intervention for Diabetes in the United Kin

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Outline Your Approach To Successful Implementation Of a Chosen Public Health Intervention, Including a Consideration Of Personal And System Barriers And Enablers.

Globalisation and development around the world has improved the ability and efficiency of health care processes around the world due to which healthcare processes and its qualities has improved (Rosen 2015). Health care facilities are implementing leadership and management aspects while dealing with community health care complications and these strategies are making the care process accurate, efficient, equitable, and sustainable (Rutter et al. 2017). Governments around the world is creating strategies and mechanisms so that all the critical aspects of a quality healthcare process such as human resources, financial aspects, hardware, and other care related aspects could be maintained and synchronised (Gostin and Wiley 2017).

Development in every aspect of humankind has brought complexity in human life and this has increased the challenges for the health care managers and ministries around the world. There are multiple health complications around the world which is affecting the world population and creating lifestyle complications around the world (Rutter et al. 2017). There is a complicated situation affecting the public and private healthcare facilities and these processes are not increasing or improving the qualities of existing technologies but creating newer technologies due to which complexity is increasing (Gostin and Wiley 2017). This is the primary reason, multiple communities are becoming unable to approach health care facilities and requires public health interventions for their health and wellbeing assurance (Rosen 2015).

This paper deals with one such lifestyle complication, diabetes, and aims to understand the public health interventions designed for the improvement of health and wellbeing chances of communities so that they could help them to understand their lifestyle complications and overcome their health complications. Therefore, the primary aim of this paper would be to understand the approach using which these strategies would be implemented in the care process.  Further, the personal and systematic barriers and enablers would also be discussed in this paper.

Diabetes is one of the primary lifestyle complications that is affecting a larger section of world society and has increased health care related burden of the societies. As per the Praidou et al. (2017), diabetes is a metabolic and lifestyle complication which is chronic in nature and damages heart, kidneys, blood vessels, eyes and nervous system due to which the affected individuals suffer from critical multiple organ complications. In recent years, diabetes is affecting the overall health and wellbeing of world population and within these few societies and communities are dramatically affected due to this health complication. One of such community is the United Kingdom population in which diabetes has emerged as one of the primary and most critical health complication that is affecting their health care processes.

Public Health Intervention

As per the diabetes society of the United Kingdom England et al. (2017), from the year 1996, the number of diabetes patients has increased from 1.4 million to 3.5 million and these are the number of patients that are able to diagnose their diabetic condition effectively. it is mentioned in that similar survey that over 4 million people in United Kingdom are suffering from under diagnosed diabetes and due to this, by the year 2025, the number of patients affected with diabetes would increase up to 7 million (McKnight and Gibb 2017). This data indicates that every 1 person in 16 are affected with diabetes in United Kingdom and their number represents total 6% of the world population (England et al. 2017). While discussing about the health complication due to which public health interventions should be implemented in the local communities of United Kingdom, the understanding and knowledge of the population regarding the diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetic condition should be analysed so that the reason of this increased prevalence could be identified (Martin et al. 2015). As per Ogurtsova et al. (2017), people in United Kingdom or any other developed county are tend to focus upon their career and opportunities that they neglect their food and diet behaviours due to which the suffer from metabolic and diet related complications. In such condition, education and awareness of the communities regarding their lifestyle changes and health consciousness should be increased so that they could understand the importance of it. Further, Noctor and Dunne (2015) also identifies that that there is a misconception among the community members regarding their obesity and this life style complication is often misunderstood with type 2 diabetes mellitus due to which it is difficult to help the communities to overcome their healthcare complications.

Therefore, this should be chosen as the primary health complication of the communities in United Kingdom due to which they are unable to overcome their high prevalence of diabetes condition and are affecting their physical and associated mental health conditions (Ogurtsova et al. 2017). In this process the public health strategies and approaches should be developed and implemented effectively so that the health condition of the communities could be controlled and they could be provided with effective interventions for their holistic health treatment. The following sections would include the strategies and approaches required for this process (Noctor and Dunne 2015).

As per da Rocha Fernandes et al. (2016), while developing public health program or the interventions for the development of awareness among the communities, it is important that every stakeholder of this process are made aware of the process and could be provided with position to take decision for the community and its wellbeing. The goal of such programs and implemented intervention should be to help a larger section of community members that are suffering from critical health complications. Further it should also help the community members to understand the strategies that they should implement for their prevention of diabetes condition (Chen et al. 2015). This program would also help the care professionals to understand the process that they can use for the identification and analysis of the high risk participants that would be suffering from critical health conditions associated with diabetes condition. as per Seligman et al. (2015), while developing public health interventions for the diabetes prevention among a large section of communities, it is important that the healthcare professionals involved in the care process are able to understand the community needs and to understand that they conduct evidence based need assessment in the respective communities (Ting, Cheung and Wong 2016). The interventions that the public health organisations should implement would be the developing diet and physical activity associated interventions so that they could help them to understand their risk factors and implements coaching, counselling and others. This would help the community members to understand the importance of healthy diet and physical activities and they would be able to understand the strategies that would help them to prevent the occurrence of this health condition (Seligman et al. 2015). The second intervention would be development of case management abilities so that they could understand the patients that are affected with diabetes conditions or would develop severe health conditions that would help them to understand the importance of it. This would require a large section of health care professionals and to overcome this limitation of public health, large number of community healthcare professionals would be included in the care process. This would help the community members to understand the strategies using which they could reduce their glycaemic control strategies and could decrease the prevalence rate of type 2 diabetes from the health condition of the patients (da Rocha Fernandes et al. 2016). Further, a team based intervention would also be included in the care process so that community members could understand the way they can manage their regular and physical activities, their blood pressure, lipid levels and as well as their blood pressure levels. Another most important intervention that would be included in the public health society so that dietary modifications could be achieved and they could help them to manage their increased weight. In this process the primary aim of the interventions would be providing every aspect of clinical care interventions so that they could understand the strategies they should be implementing for the health and wellbeing improvement of the community members involved in the care process (Ting, Cheung and Wong 2016). The final intervention would be developing a list of fact sheet for every location so that the loopholes and short comings of each location could be used for the development of effective and critical processes for the diabetes treatment of people around the world.

As per Clarke, Swinburn and Sacks (2016), while providing effective healthcare to patients living in a community that are unable to understand the importance of effective healthcare and are living with the higher risk of health complications, different models of public health should be implemented in the care process. This is an important process that would help the care processes to develop stability and would organise its processes so that leaders could help the care professionals to implement these strategies effectively (Flood et al. 2015). The first leadership process that could be utilised by the leaders or managers of different healthcare facilities would be the transactional leadership that is important for the care professionals. As per Reichenpfader, Carlfjord and Nilsen (2015), it is important for the leaders to understand that these leaders are resistant to change, they do not let independent thoughts of the care professionals due to which the care professionals follow the strategies provided by the leaders and managers for the treatment of community issues. However, in this leadership style, it is mentioned that these are the leadership process that helps the nursing professionals to be effectively motivate so that they could help them to understand the importance of effective care process. Hence, in this process, it is mentioned that these are the strategies that should be implemented by the care professionals and follow the leadership and management strategies so that they could provide the communities with effective interventions for their health well- being and improvement (Brownson et al. 2017). Further, the leaders should also implement effective leadership strategies that would help them to understand the importance of the processes and help the care professionals to reach their goals.

While dealing with public health issues and helping people for their health complications in a community, it is important for the care professionals to understand the importance of professionalism and maintain ethical qualities so that complexity and preferences could be maintained (Nelson and Staggers 2016). As per Melvin (2015), the ethical dimension of every public health aspects is important aspect as it aims to target a complete society that includes people from different communities and ethical boundaries. Hence, it is important for these people to understand that public health processes requires effective means and had to deal with complex choices, as well as demands complete attention of the care professionals so that they could help them to overcome their health complications by maintaining their ethical and cultural competency. This would be achieved through the application of education and training sessions so that the professionals that would lead the healthcare campaigns in the community could understand the concepts of language, ethics, concepts and tools so that they develop decision making skills and incorporate their learning in the public health processes effectively. As per Arnold and Boggs (2019), professionalism and ethical compliances develop the ground for the community health professionals so that they could help the patients to understand the importance of it and develop abilities so that the patients involved in the care process could be provided with effective abilities. Hence, it is important that every care professional that is involved in such community care process understand the importance of professionalism and maintain ethical values in the system so that patients and their ethical rights could be maintained and quality of care process could be improved (Nelson and Staggers 2016).

As per Al Rahbi, Khalid and Khan (2017) medical leadership is the process and aspect that help the care professionals to understand the importance of decision making and aims to understand the key components which is important for their patients so that they could feel connected to the process and help each other to overcome their health complications. While dealing with such health complications and providing treatment to a public group in the community care settings, I would prefer a leadership style that would help care professionals to understand the importance of effective communication and decision making and they would be able to provide critical care to the patients involved in the care process. In this aspect i would mention about the leadership style as my leadership style would be democratic in which every nursing professional or care professional would be provided with opportunities that they could use for the growth and development of effective care process for their patients (McKeown and Carey 2015). Further, this will help the care professionals to understand their strengths and use them for the development of abilities so that they could use those aspects for the growth and development of abilities for the care process of patients involved in the community care. Therefore, these are the strengths and abilities that the democratic leadership would help the care process with and using them the nursing professionals would be able to help a series of community members that are suffering from diabetes due to the lack of awareness or understanding of the health complication (Barr and Dowding 2015).

As per Strocah (2015) it is important for the re professionals to understand the concept of system thinking as it is considered as a core skill so that policy makers could be provided with strategies and policies that would help the process for programs and policies and aware people to understand the consequences. In this process the systems such as healthcare professionals, physicians, community health workers and laboratories should be able to help the care professionals to understand the complications so that medical services could help the policy makers to understand the complications and help them for the development of the care policies for the development of effective and quality medical services (Zaccagnini and Pechacek 2019). As the primary aim of the public health care processes is to provide the care process with improvements and healthcare abilities and promote healthcare processes, these policies and developments would help the health and lifestyle factors, research upon the new and developed interventions, and detect or protect community care professionals and their professional and ethical rights (Riley et al., 2017). Hence, using these processes the nursing professionals would be able to help the patients with three core functions so that using these factors they could help them for the development of the care process and conduct assessment, policy and develop assurance for the development of care process (Brownson, Colditz and Proctor 2018).

There are multiple barriers that could affect the health conditions of communities while they are undergoing public health interventions for their effective health treatment and encountering which can affect people and their abilities to implement healthcare processes (Greer et al. 2019). In this paper discussion about diabetes and its public health interventions has been conducted so that they could help themselves for their diabetes associated health complication. However, there are multiple barriers for the community members due to which their achievement of the care process is affected (Baatiema et al. 2017). These factors are availability of resources, increased cost, media based representatives, increased accessibility and lack of education due to which the patients would not be able to achieve maximum benefit of their care process. As per Vedio et al. (2017), cost and resources are primary aspects that help any community health system to understand their importance and understand the factors that would make their health condition sustainable. Besides this, it should be mentioned that the communities should be able to utilise the resources which are important for the diabetes prevention process so that this critical health condition could be prevented effectively in the care process (Baatiema et al. 2017). Therefore, cost and resources should be used by the care professionals to make the community members understand that they should use these interventions and implement changes in their lifestyle so that they could help them to understand the processes which would help to overcome the critical nature of the care process (Ocloo et al. 2017). Hence, these are the personal barriers to the public health interventions implemented for the community care aspects for the prevention of diabetes in specific community members.

Health care project management is the process that identifies the gap in the health care process and then develops programs and training abilities so that nursing professionals could understand the projects and help the care professionals to deliver the processes effectively on time (Caniato, Tudor and Vaccari 2015). There are multiple aspects such as controlling costs, management of risks, and improvement of project outcomes so that they could use these processes for the development and implementation of the healthcare process. In this process, the primary aim of the care process would be to help the patients of different communities to understand that their lifestyle and their healthcare is dependent upon their behaviours and lifestyle so that they could help them to understand the importance of it (Harris et al. 2015). Further, it should also understand the strength and weakness of the community members and healthcare professionals so that both of them could understand the processes using which they could help them to overcome their health complications and develop abilities for the development of effective care process. Hence, these are the strategies that would be implemented in the project management process (White, Dudley-Brown and Terhaar 2016).

Conclusion

While concluding this paper, it should be mentioned that addressing the community health issues is the primary aim of the public health strategies so that they could help the patients to understand the importance of care process and understand the strategies that they can use for the development of care process. This paper discusses the public health issue of diabetes in United Kingdom and discusses the strategies and interventions that can be used for the treatment of the community members. In this process however discussing about the leadership and management of the healthcare programs has also been discussed so that they could understand the processes they could use for the development of care process. This paper identifies multiple interventions and leadership and management strategies so that a holistic discussion could be maintained and developed.

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