Making Healthy Public Policy Assignment 1: Stakeholder Analysis Essay Due date: XXXXXXXXXXSunday 19th July 2020 Assessment length: 1500 – 1800 words Assessment value: 15% Assessment outline This essay...

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Making Healthy Public Policy Assignment 1: Stakeholder Analysis Essay Due date: 11.59 Sunday 19th July 2020 Assessment length: 1500 – 1800 words Assessment value: 15% Assessment outline This essay builds on the work that you did in your group practical where you undertook a preliminary stakeholder assessment for your allocated PHAA Policy. This is not a group assignment. In this essay you are asked to take the work you began in your group on your nominated PHAA policy and stakeholder analysis and build on this yourself to provide a detailed stakeholder analysis You should: · Provide and Introductory paragraph outlining the Policy you are analysing and why stakeholders play an important part of developing and analysing such a policy · Identify your stakeholders and, explain why these particular people/groups are stakeholders? · Classify them as primary secondary and key stakeholders with justification for why you have put them in these groups · Map your stakeholders onto the template you used in the practical session which classifies stakeholders from high to low interest and high to low influence. You may wish to reconsider the importance/influence of some of the stakeholders and change their position in the template. · Explain why you have placed these stakeholders in their position in the matrix. · Include a concluding paragraph which summarises the paper In completing this assignment: · you should use sub-headings · use appropriate referencing which is based on either the Vancouver referencing template or the APA referencing template. These are explained in the Library Health Essentials module (on the MyUni dashboard) which you have been asked to complete Useful Resources · Centre for Community Health and Development, University of Kansas. 1994 – 2020. Community Toolbox: Section 8. Identifying and Analysing Stakeholders and Their Interests. https://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/participation/encouraging-involvement/identify-stakeholders/checklist 20 Napier Close Deakin ACT Australia 2600 – PO Box 319 Curtin ACT Australia 2605 T (02) 6285 2373 F (02) 6282 5434 E [email protected] W www.phaa.net.au Public Health Association of Australia: Policy-at-a-glance – Prevention and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Australia Policy Key message: PHAA will – 1. Advocate that Federal, State and Territory governments: a. Establish overweight and obesity as a national priority; b. Lead an effective approach to tackling this issue; c. Allocate funding to support development, implementation, evaluation and research around a national healthy weight plan; 2. Monitor progress on the implementation of these recommendations and report back to members; 3. Partner with other organisations to jointly influence action for population prevention of overweight and obesity; 4. Contribute to policy and advisory forums about the promotion of healthy weigh for children, young people and adults; 5. Inform and mobilise its members in support of this policy. Summary: Overweight and obesity in Australia is associated with substantial present and future social, health and economic costs. Despite a large number of recommendations cited in reports, strategies and plans over the past 20 years, the prevalence of obesity and overweight in Australia continues to rise in adults and is high in children. Australia does not have a national coordinated plan to address this problem. This policy calls on the governments to establish obesity as national priority and, based on the best available evidence, which includes a strong focus on improving diets and levels of physical activity, lead an effective national, integrated, sustained, multi-sectoral and multi-dimensional approach to tackling this issue. Audience: Federal, State and Territory Governments, policy makers, program managers and key non-government, community, industry and academic stakeholders and the Australian public. Responsibility: PHAA’s Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group (SIG). Date policy adopted: September 2016 Contacts: Dr Helen Vidgen and Dr Julie Woods, Co-Convenors, Food and Nutrition SIG PHAA Policy Statement on: Prevention and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Australia 20 Napier Close Deakin ACT Australia 2600 – PO Box 319 Curtin ACT Australia 2605 2 T (02) 6285 2373 F (02) 6282 5434 E [email protected] W www.phaa.net.au Prevention and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Australia Policy Statement The Public Health Association of Australia notes that: 1. Globally, high and rising levels of adult and child overweight and obesity are a threat to good health. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) plan for preventing and managing non-communicable diseases includes a focus on reducing obesity, improving diets and increasing levels of physical activity.1 2. Obesity rates in Australia are among the highest in the world.2 In 2011-12 35% of adults were overweight and 28% obese, with combined rates of overweight and obesity (63%) up from 56% in 1995 and 61% in 2007-8. While the combined prevalence of overweight (18%) and obesity (8%) in children (5-17 years) has stabilised at 25%, it remains high. Overweight and obesity are more common in lower- socioeconomic and some immigrant groups and in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. These inequalities commonly begin in childhood and persist or widen across the life course.3 3. Overweight and obesity contributed 5.5% of all Australian disease and injury burden (BOD) in 2011. High body mass was responsible for 52% of the diabetes burden, 38% of chronic kidney disease burden, 23% of coronary heart disease burden and 17% of stroke burden4 and also reduces psychosocial health.1 Poor diet and inadequate physical activity were considered separately and contribute 7% and 5% respectively to BOD. 4. The social and economic costs of overweight and obesity are high. A recent estimate concluded that without additional and increased investment in well-designed obesity interventions there will be 50% more obese people and the cumulative, marginal economic costs of obesity in Australia will reach $87.7 billion by 2025, not including the impact on the quality of life of the obese, their families and carers.5 5. Approximately 80% of overweight children become overweight adults.6 Once overweight, it is difficult to lose weight, so preventing weight gain is important. 6. Body Mass Index (BMI), the ratio of weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared, is the main population-level indicator of weight status for adults and children, and is used with caution at the individual level. 7. As poor diet and physical inactivity are key determinants of unhealthy weight, achieving healthy weight will not be possible without significant focus and investment in both these areas, particularly in regulatory policy actions for which there is strong supportive evidence.7 8. The many complex and interacting biological, behavioural and societal factors contributing to causing overweight and obesity can be classified into seven cross-cutting themes: biology, the physical activity PHAA Policy Statement on: Prevention and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Australia 20 Napier Close Deakin ACT Australia 2600 – PO Box 319 Curtin ACT Australia 2605 3 T (02) 6285 2373 F (02) 6282 5434 E [email protected] W www.phaa.net.au environment, individual physical activity levels, societal influences, individual psychology, food environment and food consumption.8 9. National and international organisations emphasis that a sustained and comprehensive portfolio of interventions is required to address overweight and obesity and not the central role of government leadership in achieving population level impact.1 10. The WHO’s recent report on childhood and adolescent obesity reinforced the need for: multiple strategies to halt rising rates; consideration of the environmental context and three critical time periods in the life course – preconception and pregnancy, infancy and early childhood, and other childhood and adolescence; and the importance of treating children who are already obese.9 11. Australia does not have a comprehensive ongoing national obesity plan, despite recommendations for one.10 Current initiatives to prevent and manage overweight and obesity and promote healthy eating and physical activity run by Commonwealth, state and territory governments and other organisations, are insufficient to halt and reverse high obesity rates.11 12. Obesity prevention is not a current national government priority with both national funding ceasing and the Australian National Preventive Health Agency abolished.12 13. To effectively prevent excessive weight gain, interventions are required to change the physical, policy, economic, educational and social environments to support healthy diets and physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviours. Further health gains beyond healthy weight would be achieve by such interventions.1 14. Whole of population strategies as well as strategies targeted at key points across the life-course (pregnancy, early childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age) and for disadvantaged groups including those with high rates of overweight and obesity, poor diet and inadequate physical activity are required to cost-effectively prevent and manage overweight and obesity.13 15. Monitoring of body weight status occurs approximately every three years as part of the National Health Survey. National monitoring of diet, physical activity, weight and other chronic disease risk factors is ad hoc and uncoordinated and there are no current plans for an ongoing national monitoring program. 16. Other PHAA policies contain information relevant to this policy: Food, Nutrition and Health; Physical Activity; Marketing of Food and Beverages to Children; Food and Nutrition Monitoring and Surveillance in Australia; and Towards a National Nutrition Policy for Australia. The Public Health Association of Australia affirms the following principles: 17. As the factors contributing to overweight and obesity are complex, no single intervention can halt the rise of the growing obesity epidemic. A range of strategies over the long term are needed that take into PHAA Policy Statement on: Prevention and Management of Overweight and Obesity in Australia 20 Napier Close Deakin ACT Australia 2600 – PO Box 319 Curtin ACT Australia 2605 4 T (02) 6285 2373 F (02) 6282 5434 E [email protected] W www.phaa.net.au consideration the interaction between the individual, the environment and the social determinants of health. 18. The public health problems of obesity, poor diet and inadequate physical activity cannot be solved by education and personal responsibility. Creating healthy food and physical activity environments will enable the population to exercise their personal
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STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS OF PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA’S OBESITY POLICY
TABLE OF CONTENT
Introduction
Stakeholders
Classification of stakeholders
Stakeholder influence mapping
Justification of positions of stakeholders
Conclusion
References
INTRODUCTION-
A person is said to be obese when he has the excessive deposition of fat in his body. We can not consider obesity a cosmetic
issue only, it has hypertension, diabetes, hormonal imbalance, liver issues, cardiac issues and many other medical complications associated with it. Obesity can be associated with a single factor or it may be a combination of them making it a multifactorial disease. Wrong dietary habits, lack of exercise and physical activity, genetic predisposition, economic factors, improper sleep schedules, psychological factors, sedentary lifestyle and lack of awareness are some of the factors which contribute to gaining weight. From a child to a full-grown adult, no one today is spared from the impact of this disease. It is a world-wide problem which is extending its root day by day.
According to the data of the Australian Bureau of Statics’ National Health Survey 2017-18 two thirds of Australian adults are obese or overweight that accounts for 12.5 million people. It also states that almost one-quarter of children (age group 5-17 year) were overweight or obese. And out of these overweight children, approximately eighty percent become overweight adults. Overweight and obesity contributes 7.6% burden of the total premature death rates in Australia. Therefore obesity is a soaring threat to society; people affected by it suffer physically, emotionally, socially, and financially. It should also be taken in account that the health consequences associated with obesity are often cumulative and hence it may not be possible to reverse these consequences by achieving weight loss. Countries throughout the world are trying to generate better approaches and improved medical facilities to control it. To cope with this situation a plethora of national and global policy recommendations have been made. Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) has an obesity policy, which targets making obesity and being overweight a national priority. It suggests a multidimensional approach in tackling this issue. According to this policy, Australia’s present initiatives to control and prevent obesity are insufficient to stop and reverse the rates so, interventions are required to improve the current situation, and this includes social, economic, physical and educational support strategies at various levels, which will result in overall health improvements and not just reducing weight. And it also suggests that these interventions should be supportive of positive body image and should not contribute to bias against individuals on the basis of body weight. This policy interests the government in involving various government and non-government organizations, industries like food production, healthcare, marketing and media, the policy makers and program managers, funding authorities like Federal Minister for Health and the NHMRC (National Health And Medical Research Council) to be a part of the drive against obesity and get a combined and better approach for the same.
STAKEHOLDERS
This policy aims at creating strategies to promote better dietary habits, weight management, physical activity and lifelong adaptation of healthy lifestyle. To regulate this policy properly there is a need that all organizations of the society work together; hence the policy has stakeholders at different levels, like industries, community organizations, commonwealth, state and territory governments, policy makers healthcare professionals, non-government and academic sectors and public. These organizations have the capacity and influence to get the desired results; hence it is necessary that these be a part of the policy.
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