Health promotion can be defined as a behavioral social science that has been drawn from the biological, physiological, environmental, medical as well as physical sciences in order to promote health as well as to prevent diseases, premature death and disability with the help o education-driven voluntary change activities. Health promotion is highly crucial in a community since it has the potential to enhance the quality of life of individuals. Considering the fact that the chief objective of health promotion program is to prevention rather than cure, health promotion reduces the cost that individuals spend on medical treatment. Western NSW Local Heath District (LHD) has been suffering from several health related issues like high smoking an obesity rate in both adult males as well as females. In order to eradicate the issues by educating individuals and implementing prevention methods, a health care program will be conducted on the mentioned area. The targeted population comprises of adults residing in Bourke. The purpose of the report is to develop and effective action as well as evaluation plan for Western NSW Local Heath District (LHD). As a part of the action plan, a simple food and nutrition intervention project will be designed in order o address the high priority requirements of the community. The first step for conducting the plan will include a Mandate of action, followed by identification of key stakeholders & multi-disciplinary program team. Finally, a Program action pan and evaluation planning diagram will be developed.
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Mandates |
Purpose |
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International |
World Health Organisation |
It requires the governments of respective states to make cohesive strategies for promoting a healthy choices, which shall be governed by the national governments. (Opc.org.au, 2018). |
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State |
NSW Healthy Eating and Active Living Strategy 2013-2018 |
To prevent obesity and overweight in New South Wales. To reduce the lifestyle related diseases in the state (Health.nsw.gov.au, 2018). It encourages people throughout the state to choose healthy lifestyle and provides some action plan for them to follow. |
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State |
National Partnership on Preventive Health |
To increase the health concern within adults and children, to prevent diseases like diabetes and increase the healthy eating and physical activities within them. |
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State |
NSW Government Plan for Preventing Overweight and Obesity in Children, Young People & their Families |
To spread an understanding of the causes and risks which are associated with obesity. It also provides an initiative to prevent the risk of obesity. It intends to establish support for those people who are obese or overweight already. |
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State |
NSW State Plan |
To spread awareness about healthy food and active lifestyle. It purports to decrease the consumption of poor food habit, beverages which are sweetened artificially. |
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National |
National Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines |
To promote physical activity by various way within the adult and adolescent group. |
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National |
NSW Legislative Council Standing Committee on Social Issues Inquiry into Childhood Overweight and Obesity |
To address the issues related overweight and obesity, and to provide a strategy of prevention and treatment with the help of Government. |
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National |
Australian National Diabetes Strategy |
To highlight the importance of regulatory intervention to decrease the overweight and obesity related issues in Australia. |
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National |
The Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obesity in Adults, Adolescents and Children in Australia |
To improve the health outcomes for the overweight and obese persons and improve the health of Australian and decrease the pressure on the health care system. |
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Local |
The Clinical Services Framework 2015 |
It is a system of care for the Western NSW Local Health District to lower the percentage of people facing the risk factors like lack of physical activity and obesity. |
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Local |
The Western NSW Local Health District Strategic Health Services Plan |
To take a look at the aboriginal health. Spread a knowledge about the causes and results of obesity. (Health.nsw.gov.au, 2018). |
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Local |
Performance Monitoring Strategies |
To develop the monitoring system and report the impacts, outputs and outcomes of the Health and Wellbeing Strategic Framework 2017-2026 (Health Weight Strategy 2017 to 2026, 2018). |
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Healthcare professionals will analyze the body condition of the healthcare service users and on the basis of the assessment will deliver a patho-physiological report. |
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The contribution of the dietician will include promoting eating habits and developing healthcare plans for the individual on the basis of the pathophysiological report (Pelto, 2017). |
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Heath Educator will also contribute to educate people about the importance of adopting appropriate diet plans. Not only that, they will provide the target population with adequate information about the negative impact of obesity and how can they are dealt with. |
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The role of physiologists will be analyzes the reason behind the tendency of the target population behind huge consumption of fat and provide effective therapy so that the rate of obesity from the target area can be reduced to a significant level (Ashimogo et al., 2017). |
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The role of social worker is to locate individuals who are unable to adopt proper diet due to poverty and provide them with financial support (Cooper et al., 2016) |
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The role of the food industry will be to collaborate with the food and nutrition program and provide good quality fruits an vegetables require for healthy diet within a reasonable amount of price. |
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The role of the government is to help the organization to provide support to the food and nutrition program so that healthy and high quality food items can be provided to the population at a cheaper price. |
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High rate of Obesity among adult population that include both male and female population in Brooke. |
Reduce the rate of obesity by 60 percent in the upcoming 6 moths. |
The outcome can be evaluated with the help of healthcare reports generated by both government as well as private hospitals. Another measure of outcome evaluation includes surveys and feedbacks that will be conducted after 3 months. |
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· Modifiable · Lack of knowledge about the negative impact of obesity. · Majority of the people lead a Lifestyle that promotes obesity · Non modifiable · Low level of Education |
1. Establishing a food literacy campaign program where all the negative impacts of obesity will be pointed out. 2. To develop fast foods that is healthy like spinach sandwich. |
· Audit food literacy programs · Surveys · Collaboration with fast food centres |
Reference List
Ashimogo, G., Mwageni, E., Mdoe, N., Kayunze, K., & Mwakalobo, A. (2017). Challenges of Monitoring Food and Nutrition Security in Rural Areas Using Longitudinal Methods: Experiences from the Rufiji Sentinel Food Security and Nutrition Monitoring (FSNM) Study, Tanzania. Tanzania Journal for Population studies and Development, 16(1). Retrieved from: https://journals.udsm.ac.tz/index.php/tjpsd/article/view/911
Cooper, B. R., Barale, K., Funaiole, A., Power, T. G., & Combe, A. (2016). Participant and household characteristics associated with graduation from the expanded food and nutrition education program. Journal of nutrition education and behavior, 48(7), 453-460. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1499404616301105
Health Weight Strategy 2017 to 2026. (2018). Retrieved from https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/663050/health-wellbeing-strategic-framework-obesity.pdf
Health.nsw.gov.au. (2018). Adult Overweight and Obesity. [online] Available at: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/heal/Pages/adulthood-obesity.aspx [Accessed 20 Sep. 2018].
Health.nsw.gov.au. (2018). NSW Healthy Eating and Active Living Strategy. [online] Available at: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/heal/publications/nsw-healthy-eating-strategy.pdf [Accessed 20 Sep. 2018].
Opc.org.au. (2018). Obesity Policy Coalition. [online] Available at: https://www.opc.org.au/what-we-do/other-policies-laws [Accessed 20 Sep. 2018].
Pelto, G. H. (2017). Focused Ethnographic Studies for Food and Nutrition Planning and Program Development. Food Health: Nutrition, Technology, and Public Health, 3, 54. Retrieved from: https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=vO4lDAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA54&dq=food+and+nutrition+planning&ots=20vwH8kaIa&sig=97sSkxo49va1pasn4_4Ck7MZIxE&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=food%20and%20nutrition%20planning&f=false
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