Task 2. Essay. 1000 words Use the following scenario and your own explanation to cover LO2 SCENARIO 2: Tobacco use remains one of our most significant public health challenges. Smoking rates are much...

Task 2. Essay. 1000 words Use the following scenario and your own explanation to cover LO2 SCENARIO 2: Tobacco use remains one of our most significant public health challenges. Smoking rates are much higher in some social groups, including those with the lowest incomes. These groups suffer the highest burden of smoking-related illness and death. Smoking is the single biggest cause of inequalities in death rates between the richest and poorest in our communities. Consequently, tackling tobacco use is central to realising the Government’s commitment to improve the health of the poorest, fastest. The Government is committed to improving public health in communities across England. We recognise that while nicotine keeps tobacco users physically dependent, there are a wide range of social and behavioural factors that encourage young people to take up smoking and that make it harder for tobacco users to quit. The Government’s approach to improving public health includes tackling the wider social determinants of health and it aims to build people’s self-esteem, confidence and resilience, right from infancy. To promote health and wellbeing, we will work to encourage communities across England to reshape social norms, so that tobacco becomes less desirable, less acceptable and less accessible. To reduce smoking uptake by young people, we all need to influence the adult world in which they grow up. We must also remove the considerable social barriers that smokers face when they are trying to quit. Under the leadership of local authorities, we want to encourage the development of partnerships in tobacco control where anyone who can make a contribution is encouraged to get involved. The new approach to public health delivery in England means that local areas will decide on their own priorities and ways of improving health in their communities, in line with the evidence base and local circumstances. Through HNHS Health Promotion Assignment Brief 8 this plan, the Government supports comprehensive tobacco control in England across the six internationally recognised strands, which are: •stopping the promotion of tobacco; •making tobacco less affordable; •effective regulation of tobacco products; •helping tobacco users to quit; •reducing exposure to secondhand smoke; and •effective communications for tobacco control. This Tobacco Control Plan sets out the key actions under each strand that the Government will take in order to support efforts to reduce tobacco use over the next five years, within the context of the new public health system. Full article available at: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph48/chapter/2-public-health-need-and-practice Using this knowledge on smoking cessation programme, answer the following questions below: 2.1 Analyse the links between government strategies and smoking cessation programme. 2.2 Explain your role as a professional in meeting government targets for health promotion in reducing the number of smokers in UK. 2.3 Discuss the routines need to be carried out by the smokers in order to quit smoking?