Planning, implementation and Evaluation on non communicable disease.

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    Assessment Task 3
Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of a Non Communicable Disease Prevention Initiative
Demographic Characteristics of Specific Car Manufacturing Factory and surrounding community
The car manufacturing factory ‘Tata Motors’ is a leading company for manufacturing of cars, buses, trucks, defence vehicles and utility vehicles. Its headquarters is in India. The manufacturing factory offers a wide range of smart, integrated and e mobility solutions. The factory is a car manufacturer in Clayton South Australia. The factory is an employer for more than 82797 employees at different posts. The mean age of workers is 47 years, 50% are women, 30% are obese and 28% had a minimum of college diploma. The employees involve managers, supervisors, workers, in different departments. The intervention for prevention of Non Communicable Diseases in this factory is based on an initiative implemented for the line workers.
The employees range from male and females of 26 years to 56 years of age. The workers work to produce just one part of the car. A number of workers work in production lines to assemble the products and make the cars. The factory has a diverse set of employees which includes women and other workers as highly skilled and talented workers. The factory performs operations like development, design, manufacture, sale and assembly of the products.
The car manufacturing units have seen a fall by one third from 2009 to 2019 (Department of Industry, Science, energy & resource, 2020). The Toyota and Holden assembly units have been closed in 2017 however the manufacturing unit saw an improvement in the existing units. The workers at Tata car manufacturing factory are exposed to long working hours which exposes them to non communicable diseases like obesity and overweight. Obesity is associated with premature mortality, occupational injuries and increased morbidity. Obesity also adversely affects the socioeconomically backward workers and those belonging to vulnerable cultural groups like indigenous communities.
Adverse working conditions may influence obesity. The obesity- occupation relationship is directly related to job related characteristics like workplace food environment, sedentary time, rotating shifts, work associated stress, and chemical exposure. Obesity increases the risk of several chronic conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, depression, cardiovascular illness and low quality of life. The workers employed in certain specific employment are more likely to have poor health outcomes like obesity. It increases the risk of occupational injuries, loss of productivity that is work related and high cost of healthcare expense. The income disparities influence their ability to buy healthy nutrition. The working demands and stress affects their activity pattern and eating habits.
For the line workers the education standards include less than high school or diploma. The health behaviours for certain workers also include smoking and alcohol dependence for lifetime.
Deployment of this initiative
There are work environments which affect the prevalence of obesity such as (a) the presence of food environments that increase the consumption of foods causing obesity in workers, (b) the requirements of job which increase the sedentary behaviours, (c) work related stress, that induces alcohol, smoking, and sleep hygiene, (d) the co-workers behaviours and their activity pattern and eating behaviours, (e) long working hours, (f) psychological strain due to low resources and wealth at home.
The initiative will focus on the working environment of the factory to target the weight reduction program. The environmental intervention targets physical and social environment of the site of work to change the behaviours of workers. It would be helpful in reducing obesity at the population level.
Resources, support and incentives required
Worksite Wellness committees, which include the managers, supervisors and workers, vending machines for dispensing healthier food options, annual evaluation plans, establishment of walking clubs may be adopted (Upadhyaya, Sharma, Pompeii, Sianez & Morgan, 2020). The environmental strategies to promote the physical activity like outdoor walking routes, stair way signs, social marketing campaigns like newsletters and website, cafeteria signs, weight loss goals and healthy eating are also helpful.The incentives will be provided for the workers who shed off their extra calories and adapted healthy lifestyle. The leadership support, partnership with the government and other organisations, and the implementation of policies made by the National and state level programs are necessary for the implementation of program.
Concerns and barriers the initiative may encounter
The main concerns for the manufacturers will include the strict working conditions which include high energy costs of inputs, the high cost due to high commodity price and a low Australian dollar and strict credit conditions (University of Visconsin, 2020). The manufacturers also face global competition, cost of energy and the development of workers through the right skills to facilitate growth and improvement. Such targets for business may make the employer to give more preference to business deadlines. The habits of workers may make it difficult to switch to new alternative at the canteen. The cooperation between senior level management and the workers may be improved by creating signage to promote physical activity and by establishing joint steering committees. The specific health related factors such as diabetes may restrict certain workers from eating the available snacks at the worksite.
Etiology and Epidemiology of overweight and obesity in target group
The males in production unit have greater BMI than the males working in sale, service, clerical and labor jobs (University of Visconsin, 2020). The females at the managerial posts, supervisors, and advanced clerical occupations have low BMI than the females at other job profiles. The socioeconomic factors like education, marital status, household income and country of birth also affect the overweight and obesity in workers. There are demands of work which demand the employees to sit for longer duration and there is less time available for the physical activity. The low salaries also predispose the workers towards obesity.
The reasons for obesity in adult workers include the attitude of employees about the obesity prevention programs of the employers (Allen, 2018). Mostly...