Critically evaluate a national initiative to address childhood obesity in the Uk, focussing on Brighton and Hove.
Health need identified: Childhood Obesity
National initiative identified: Change4Life.
Area of focus: Brighton and Hove
Learning Outcome one:
Demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of key contemporary public health issues and perspectives including the factors that affect health and wellbeing and evaluate the impact of policy, health economics and ethics in reducing inequalities in health.
Learning outcome two:
Critically analyse models of health promotion and their use in public health. (For example, The transtheoretical model of change, Health education, service improvement and Advocacy model (HESIAD).
Learning outcome three:
Identify and critically evaluate strategies which aim to address health inequality at a community and population level and discuss the effectiveness of these services in meeting childhood obesity.
This piece of work need to include local and national data to identify that childhood obesity is a public health issue in the Uk and specifically Brighton and Hove. If there are challenges to collect the data, this also needs to be highlighted in the essay to critique.
Tips: The kings fund and the health Foundation are good website that touch on inequalities in healthcare.
– All the learning outcomes have to be linked to childhood obesity.
– Which health promotion model is best appropriate in tackling childhood obesity and in line with the aim of the CHANGE4LIFE strategy.
