Regardless of numerous programs, activities, and research studies, serious improvements should be made to enhance the quality of the health care sector and raise the public awareness of the important
Professional Nursing Role. The problem of obesity among children and adults and the increased tobacco consumption causing serious diseases, such as cancer, are on the current agenda in the United States. The underpinning of the problem relates specifically to the impossibility of reconsidering current challenges from a holistic perspective, paying attention both to the disease itself, such as obesity, and how it is perceived and treated by healthcare professionals. In this respect, the purpose of the paper is to reconsider the current findings and policies aimed at improving the health of the population and promoting educational nursing programs to raise the importance of nursing profession and enhance the quality of healthcare. The major essence of the proposed policy consists in combining the efforts of public and private sector at solving the issue of national importance and forwarding it to the international level. The use of an integral approach on healthcare and patients’ overall attitude to the healthcare system in the United States is of the highest priority. The emphasis should also be placed on grasping a greater context in which such large-scale problems as obesity and cancer are evaluated, including health disparities, patient’s social background and overall environment in which a person is placed.
General public health requirements have been oriented on improving healthcare for individuals by taking a holistic picture of the problem. Although the public sector and the government are determined that the current condition of healthcare in the United States is on diligent level, there are still a great number of problems and controversies based on the health disparity issues. Specifically, it has been outlined that health problems have a direct influence on public support and opinion, and the newly emerging evidence assumes that the most effective interventions to solving disparities can benefit from both collective and individual components. Whether it refers to a childhood and adult obesity, or cancer treatment, the healthcare system should always focus on the individual behavior, as well as physical, psychological, social and policy environments. Missing of any of the above-stated components can hinder the process of advancing the quality of care. Hence, uniting efforts of public and private sectors at enhancing the quality of healthcare and heightening the community’s awareness of the current programs is another effective approach in nursing and healthcare.
The public health care should be oriented on the cooperation and provision of an integral intervention program to a patient as a member of community, including social, financial, and cultural factors. The given proposal seeks to introduce policies of public support of treating obesity as both a healthcare problem and a cultural phenomenon.
We must strategically frame the issue of inequities in health, monitor the effectiveness of diverse individual and macrolevel approaches, and advocate for funding research that will inform the adaptation of language and development of strategies to build public consensus and political will to implement effective large-scale interventions.
In such a manner, it will be possible to present a universal course of actions aimed at providing an equal access to the healthcare, as well as to expand on the current rates and outcomes of the previously adjusted obesity reduction programs.
Public mobilization could become the first step for enacting obesity-prevention program and reconsider reactions against the suggested implementations. The approaches to public health, therefore, should focus on constructive dialogue between political figures and public health professionals. In this respect, call for introducing the strategies aimed at increasing the demand for obesity reduction programs, which are directed at streamlining and refining public information, identifying effective obesity theories for each of the target populations, enhancing media support, increasing citizens’ engagement, and introducing a new political environment that would ensure change agents across both governmental and non-governmental organizations. Each of the proposed activities should be fulfilled in consolidations, particularly when it comes to healthcare organization that should provide their workers with the corresponding training programs and information. In addition, consolidation of public and private sectors could be another breakthrough in solving the problem of obesity. As a proof, the scholars have introduced their suggestion on establishing the partnership for reducing the epidemic of obesity. Indeed, the scholars are definite about the fact that partnership means better acquisition of resources, as well as development of new opportunities to deal with the healthcare problems. Collaboration is the key to enhancing public-private tandem while acknowledging and dealing with challenges and risks which are premised on warrant consideration. The role of public health’s alliances with private healthcare organization can improve the quality and effectiveness of obesity programs for both children and adults because they are framed with the concept of holistic management of a problem.
Apart from dealing with obesity issues, there are many other large-scale aspects, such as cancer prevention programs, which should be solved at the national level. As an example, a case study on tobacco use among teens to emphasize the role of evidence-based policy. Specifically, it has been concluded that 18 % of students smoke, which introduces specifics of successful strategies promoting that once again requires a multifaceted evaluation. Hence, constantly changing the context, such as the new healthy lifestyle trends, proves that tobacco use is a trend of fashion. It means that the current healthcare policies should resort to advertising and marketing to attract customers to follow the fashion of a healthy life. Hence, orientation on a specific target audience can allow the government and private organizations to focus on a win-win solution, where healthcare can bring in both financial and health-related benefits. Such a policy can provide a new alternative tool for controlling the current problems in healthcare, as well as changing the outlook of healthcare professionals. Especially it concerns nurses, whose significant contribution to healthcare is often underestimated. People should be educated about a clinical role of such a profession, among which are detection, referral, and follow-up; diagnostics and medication management; patient education, counseling, and skill building; coordination of care; clinic or office management; population health management; performance measurement and quality improvement. The image of nurses and their profession should be enhanced, as well as the problems in their healthcare policy.
The given plan embraces a number of steps and algorithms that rely on the analysis of the environment in the United States. However, the essence of decreasing the current tobacco use and obesity prevention policies consist in uniting public and private sectors, in sharing knowledge and experience, in addressing the risks and outcomes to children and adults. Such an approach could be beneficial both for nurses who can increase their qualification through constant cooperation, and for patients who can see healthcare as something more than just an institution dealing with disorders. Overall, integration of cooperation, collaboration and proper interaction between governmental and non-governmental establishments is the key to advocating the new healthcare policies, and redeveloping the entire mission of healthcare delivery in the United States and abroad.
