The Importance of Lifestyle Factors in the Maintenance of Health and Well-Being

Public policies that focus on lifestyle determinants promote better health outcomes for an entire population by means of education, implementing wide spread policies, and initiatives for at risk areas of the population. Socializing and empowering determinants help connect and form a relationship between structural determinants and lifestyle determinants. This section of our health policy really helps tie in a key component that gives our national health policy a higher chance of success as a whole, it is more or less the bridge that binds the other parts. Doing this ties the individual and collective responsibilities for better health and allows a higher chance of success on both the individual and societal levels (Estes et. al., 2013).

Review and revise an individual’s daily plan with the individual and others to increase the opportunities for participation

The significance for this research project is that it will provide relevant and up to date data of the current levels of physical activity within Australian adults. This project will deliver an in-depth analysis of the frequency, quantity, duration, and variety of physical activity among Australians. It will also provide information about what factors are promoting a healthy lifestyle and what barriers are preventing adults from achieving the recommended weekly levels of physical activity. The research will address:

Physical activity is a very important aspect of an individual’s life. There are many health benefits to being physically active. Living an active life helps to prevent and lower the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, depression, and heart disease (Tuso, 2015). Healthy People 2020 (2018) states that about 80% of adults and adolescents do not meet the physical activity guidelines. Staying active may be difficult if there are no community resources to help. The intention of this paper is to implement interventions within Paulding County that will help increase physical activity among community members.

1. Readiness for enhanced regular activity: related to planned exercise activity in the week for the family to improve overall health.

At the community/organisational level of health promotion is based on the Ottawa charter action area of ‘strengthen community action’ it increases access to health information, community involvement in health initiatives whilst empowering the community to make their own choices. (Who.int, 2016) An example of this can be displayed through the St George Illawarra Dragons community

The topics discussed in chapters six through ten focused on injuries, health risks, prevention of health conditions, pain, specific health conditions such as obesity, and the effects of chronic illnesses. These chapters caused me to reflect on both the physical and psychological effects that various health conditions can have on people. Our mindset can have a direct effect on how we cope with illnesses as well as increase or decrease our risk for developing new conditions. Proper education about health risks and conditions that are becoming more prevalent throughout society can help in the development of new treatment methods and ways to avoid the onset of certain illnesses.

Chapter one starts by telling the reader all the different kinds of health that we as humans experience. Ranging from physical health talking about the shape and size of the body to environmental health talking about the positive and negative impacts of where one might live. The chapter also expresses how if one chooses to start caring about their health it can lead to a longer, happier life. The choices people make when they are younger greatly impact their health later on in life.

The readily accessible spaces to the community and the policies that shape them have a significant impact on how much physical activity we get into daily life, in the same manner that the lack of physical activity is a major contributor to high obesity rates. Impacto will analyse Hunt’s Point urban and social environment conditions and systems, looking into reinventing activity-friendly spaces and structures: parks, playgrounds, streets, buildings, and communities that encourage physical activity and neighbourhoods where people feel safe. Safety along the route, whether from traffic or strangers, is a key factor in whether children walk or bicycle to places (Carver,Timperio, Crawford, 2008).

Central Idea: Exercise and physical activity are a great way to feel better, gain health benefits and have fun.

The Open University (2012) L185 English for academic purposes, Block 3 Session 2 ‘Text 2.1: Factors that influence the health of an individual’ [online], https://learn2.open.ac.uk/pluginfile.php/717531/mod_resource/content/1/Block%203%20Text%202.1.pdf (accessed 02 February, 2013).

    While working on this project I  have learned that physical fitness does not come easy. It takes commitment, time, and will power. Without these you can’t obtain physical fitness or maintain it. Physical fitness is not easy to gain nor is it easy to keep it. If it was then everyone would do it, but those who stick to their plan will gain enormous rewards and their life will be significantly better.

Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is indeed a meaningful duty we owe ourselves. ‘If you do not have good health, you do not have wealth’. Healthy lifestyle means upholding a balanced and nutritious diet as well as involves in fitness activities. A healthy diet alone however isn’t sufficient to produce a healthy body as physical activity helps to keep one in shape and free of sickness and disease.

The growing public focus on improving their healthcare had been a window of opportunity for the health and wellness industry to improved or develop the new product or services. The increasing of public awareness of health and wellness could be because of the increasing of the rates of heart disease, high rates recorded the numbers of obese people, the feeling of unhealthy, and various other health scares have all drawn attention to the need for healthy lifestyle

It is important to understand the cause of the current crisis on the matter, factors that lead to diseases and good health, in addition to the steps that need to be taken by an individual so as to maintain good health.