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Learning aim A, health promotions
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- Unit 5 learning aim A (J801)
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This is an essay about the important of promoting health in this document I talk about Change for life, dry January and stoptober .
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Learning Aim A: promoting Health and wellbeingHealth promotion is a delivery of information and lifestyle choices that are to be sent out to
individuals and families, however health promotion cannot be forced onto people as people also
need to understand the risks and why we are promoting health and wellbeing, promoting health and
wellbeing is very important as it helps reduce deaths due to keeping your body and mind healthy.
You would usually see health promotion in advertisements, posters, social media and leaflets.
My 3 different health promotion activities are change for life, Dry January and Stoptober every
activity has a different aim for example change for life’s aim is to get parents aware of their child's
weight and to help them by giving advice and activities to help and make sure that the child doesn't
have health complications in the future.
However Dry January's activity is a lot more different as its more aimed for alcohol drinkers to help
them stop drinking alcohol to help people understand the dangers of drinking too much alcohol as it
can lead to physical and intellectual complications for example change of behaviour people who
tend to drink too much alcohol realise that their behaviour becomes aggressive due to the damage
alcohol does to the brain so dry Januarys aim is to make sure the population of deaths due to alcohol
decreases.
Whereas, with Stoptober their aim would be to make sure people stop the habit of smoking as the
deaths caused from lung cancer is ‘84% death are from lung cancer after smoking over a long period
of time
The reason we need to promote health and wellbeing is, so we can prevent diseases for example
protentional heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, lung cancer.
( https://publichealth.uga.edu/about/what-is-public-health/ )
Change for life.
The purpose of change for life is to make sure individuals and families eat healthy for school or work
the website help show different alternatives for school lunches or when kids wants to snack, as a
parent it's hard for you to tell your child to eat healthy, this website shows kids how important it is
to look after your body, the website attracts children as it’s a very colourful page so the purpose of
this website is to make sure that families are aware of their kids to make sure they maintain an
healthy weight wherever they are under weight or over weight and the website provides you with
information for both accessions.
The change for life website raises awareness by giving kids a chance to see the importance of eating
healthily by giving them ‘10-minute shake up activities’ which include loads of characters from
Disney, this attracts the children to the game as its their favourite characters promoting the games
and healthy eating which may want them to duplicate these actions as children would see these
characters as their role models, while it also helps them see the importance of staying active. The
website also raises awareness as it also offers a free app named “Change4Life food scanner” this
helps adolescence, young adults and the elderly to see what they are allowed to eat and what is
actually good for them as the app scans the barcode of which ever food item you want to eat to see
if it causes any harm to your body by having too much fat, salt or sugar and tells you if you should
really eat if your trying to eat healthier This is very helpful as people who may not understand whets
really good for them while trying to buy food and snacks from shops.
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