Criteria will be posted on Blackboard under “Assessment”
For this Assessment, you are to choose a behavioural risk factor where there is evidence of this being effectively addressed through health promotion interventions.
- Health Issues, Impacts. Describe and discuss the possible health issues or impacts of this behavioural risk factor to the health of the population. Your discussion on these identified health issues or impacts will need to be supported and substantiated with relevant evidence and data.
- Prevalence in Specific Populations. Identify and discuss the evidence of this behavioural risk factor being more prevalent in specific population groups, particularly in relation to the National &/or State averages associated with these data. Propose and analyse possible causes associated with these data.
- Government Policies, Priorities. Identify any government policies &/or priorities that currently support investment in modifying this behavioural risk factor and thereby reducing the prevalence of the associated health issues or impacts on high-risk population groups.
- Tensions: Prevention/Promotion vs Treatment. Identify and analyse the tensions that may exist between the prevention/promotion and treatment agendas in relation to addressing this behavioural risk factor. This should be considered at the National, State and even local levels if possible.
- Resourcing Challenges. Discuss what challenges are evident in relation to resource allocation towards the health promotion/prevention investment in addressing this behavioural risk factor.
- Settings. Recommend and justify suitable settings in which effective health promotion interventions could be delivered to positively modify this behavioural risk factor in priority population groups more at risk.
- Ongoing Investment. Conclude by providing a convincing argument
supporting the ongoing investment in prevention in relation to the
modification of this behavioural risk factor and thereby reducing the incidence of corresponding health issues throughout the population.
Please ensure you have read the following prior to submission of your assessment
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