1. Question, which core public health function or service did you choose?
2. Question, Explain in 2–3 paragraphs how that core function pertains to the controversial public health issue from your Module 1 SLP.
Answer, according to Stanhope and Lancaster (2014), the studies conducted across the globe indicate that by 2025 – 2030 about 10 million people are expected to die or face grave health issues due to smocking related illnesses as well as the smocking habitude. Ramifications off smocking exist in several cross cutting sectors, including the political arena, psychology, economics, sociology and many more areas. This is a grave issue, and is becoming difficult for the public health professionals as well as practitioners to reverse the negative effects resulting from it (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014).
Stanhope and Lancaster (2014) assert that the menace has increasingly caused deaths by its cancerous nature am and it’s considered as one of the world leading public health concerns. Smocking has a varied risk factors. The habit when increasingly used in excess can lead to the risks of the larynx, oesophagus as well as the mouth cancers. When smocking is complimented heavily by alcohol as well as other stimulants can trigger the tumours of the head, in the tobacco carcinogens (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014).
Stanhope and Lancaster (2014) chronicle that public health problems associated with smocking can vary from cancers to other lifestyle diseases, including the heart diseases. Tobacco smocking has for years challenged the public health interventions and contributed to premature as well as the sudden deaths from the coronary diseases. The specific disease killing most of the smocking habitude is the arteriosclerosis, whose prevalence is high for the smokers and which pronounces the secondary effect of the hyperlipidaemia (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014).
3. Question, find examples of at least one specific objective of healthy people 2020 that directly pertains to the controversial topic.
Answer, according to Maurer and Smith (2013), the healthy people 2030 blue print stipulates out the specific goals as well as the vision for the global health of people, by the year 2020. Among the key areas of this public health blue print is smocking as well as other drugs and substance abuse. Among the objectives of the smocking area of concern in the healthy people 2020 is tobacco use as well as prevalence.
Maurer and Smith (2013) asserts that this objective looks at implementing policies aimed at reducing the tobacco use as well as initiation n among all the young population as well as the ageing population. It seeks to reduce the prevalence of the smoking habit, by proportionately reducing the prevalence rate, mainly in the youths as well as the adults. This would be done by creation of awareness to all young people as well as the entire population to enlighten then on the effects of the smocking habitude (Maurer & Smith, 2013).
Maurer and Smith (2013) ascertain that the other objectives in the healthy people 2020 on tobacco smocking is the health system changes. This focuses on adopting strategies as well as the policies intended to increase the access, availability, affordability as well as the effectiveness of the tobacco smocking interventions. This would be done in terms of treatment as well as service provision.
References
Maurer, F. & Smith, C. (2013). Community/public health nursing practice: health for families and populations. St. Louis, Mo: Elsevier/Saunders.
Scutchfield, F. & Keck, C. (2005). Principles of public health practice. Clifton Park, NY: Thomson/Delmar Learning.
Stanhope, M. & Lancaster, J. (2014). Public health nursing: population-cantered health care in the community. Maryland Heights, Missouri: Elsevier Mosby.
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