Asma Inayat
Unit 8- Learning Aim C
Approaches to health promotion, Protection and Prevention
Learning Aim C
Monitoring the health of the community and identifying those most at risk
Monitorisation of the health community is done through collecting data, analysing them thoroughly
to ensure that it is safe and informative enough for the society, educational institutes, and for the
community to educate themselves and acknowledge the prevention, through this they would be able
to spread awareness, and that would allow the society to follow the prevention methods, this would
reduce the health spread and additionally reduce the health inequalities, the nationwide health is
collected by diverse organisation, such as Government, NHS, office for national statistics and more.
The data collected for the nation is beneficial as it supports with the information related to health
such as disease, health trends, condition, inequalities. Through this it supports to tackle with the
health inequalities through the professional’s care provision and their new techniques, diagnoses
overtime. The professionals’ benefits from the data as it supports them with planning, make
decisions, new methods/techniques of treatment. To be able to effectively monitor and promotion of
the health, and reduce the health inequalities are only possible when the professionals are well
aware about the knowledge that would support to reduce this, such as the identifying the high risk,
the most common disease at the time, the new equipment, training according to the new machines,
diseases, prevention techniques and the vulnerable such as children and obese individuals.
The children are more at risk as they are vulnerable to areas that may affect their health and cause
diseases, such as at young age, they should be given a better lifestyle choices, as they are at an age
that needs good choices such as diet, exercise, prevention from health issues, such as keep harmful
substances away from them, give them health food options, promote physical activities, set their
sleeping schedule. There are services that supports the children, known as children and young
people health outcomes forum (this information is from 2014-2015), which provides knowledge on
the health improvements, such as advice, prevention. This service is for the children as they are
capable to develop a good lifestyle choice and make it as a habit through their life, this would
support them to have a healthy life with beneficial choices and also reduce the health outcome,
complications, chronic diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, heart diseases. This services
ensures that supporting children at a young age would reduce the rate of physical and mental health
issues, prevention methods from the start (young age), would directly mean that they are
continuously reducing the pressure from the NHS, and also supporting the economy by
implementing health lifestyle choices, and if these steps are not being followed this would increase
the cost and service to be active all the time, as they would need to treat people often with serious
health issues. This forum contributes to providing the data that states the improvement in certain
aspects, such as in teenage pregnancies rate, smoking/drugs/alcohol rates, death rates, but there are
high rates of obesity, infant related issues which has risen by 40%.
A significant proportion of children in England are obese or overweight. In 2020/21, 14.4% of
reception age children (age 4-5) were obese, with a further 13.3% overweight. At age 10-11
(year 6), 25.5% were obese and 15.4% overweight . In 2021/22, 10.1% of reception age
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children (age 4-5) were obese, with a further 12.1% overweight. At age 10-11 (year 6), 23.4%
