Tailoring Interventions to Address Specific Health Needs

Health need of diverse population

The diverse population are characterised by the presence of one or more of the factors like race, socioeconomic status, language and others (Wilkinson et al., 2016). In the UK, increased diverse population is present such as people from Asian, Black, Caribbean and other origins (Hadebe et al., 2021). The health needs of the diverse population are based on the disease affecting their health (Wilkinson et al., 2016). For example, the diverse population suffering from heart disease commonly have the health needs of pharmacological intervention in lowering blood pressure, dietary management to lower triglyceride level in the blood, assistance with smoking cessation and others (Cegla et al., 2019). In contrast, the diverse population affected by liver diseases often show the health needs such as support with dietary control, cessation of alcohol addiction, control of blood sugar and others (Williams et al., 2020). The few of the common health needs of diverse population suffering from any disease are increased support in performing physical exercise and determining nature of food to be included in diet along with the amount to be eaten to remain healthy ( Glasby, 2019). This is because effective physical activity in diverse populations helps them to avoid gaining unnecessary weight, reduce the risk of developing chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart issues and others (Robertson et al., 2021). It also makes individuals feel enhanced emotional and mental health condition due to the increased production of serotonin in the brain out of healthy physical activity (Hargreaves and Spriet, 2020).

Socio-political and economic issues influencing care for the needs

The socio-political issue such as poverty adversely influences the people to experience lack of financial resources in availing care along with poor opportunity in access care services in the UK. This is because poverty leads people to have poor finances to be spent in availing quality care and inadequate food to maintain the nutrition required for healthy conditions (Bartley, 2016). In overcoming poverty and providing quality care to meet the dietary needs of people, the healthcare services in the UK support delivery of free care to all and arrangement of foodbanks to be uses by the poor people in maintain nutrition (Lambie-Mumford and Loopstra, 2020; Smith et al., 2022). Another socio-political issue faced in the UK healthcare environment is the political conflicts in the government which leads them to provide poor financial support in managing healthcare programmes (CQC, 2019). The UK’s exit from the European Union create increased adversity of shortage of healthcare professional and nurses (Fahy et al., 2019). It impacted the healthcare services planned to be provided to meets health needs of the people in the UK being compromised and delayed (Hervey et al., 2021).

The people of the poor socio-economic status in the UK and individuals who are unemployed are seen to develop increased need of accessing mental health support due to their failure in coping with stress and anxiety caused by poor financial condition (Achdut and Refaeli, 2020). It has led the NHS to plan collective care to be provided to the individual with the help of therapist and social support. The NHS Has invested £122 m for boosting employment in people while receiving mental health support to develop enhanced health and well-being (NHS, 2022).

Project management skills

In the UK, the development of type-2 diabetes is one of the major health issues among adults of 40 years of age and above (Diabetes UK, 2020). Thus, a health service strategy is intended to be developed to manage the increased prevalence of the issues of type-2 diabetes in adults. The health service strategy intended to be developed for managing type-2 diabetes in adults in the UK is making them commit to regular monitor their glucose level and involve in a healthy diet without any fail. This is because healthy diet without the presence of unsaturated fats, increased sugar, simple carbohydrates and others leads individuals to control their body weight along with glucose level in the blood. It helps in avoiding the people develop insulin resistance and instead promote normalised blood sugar in diabetic patients to help them led normal life (Han et al., 2022). In order for the health service strategy to be cost-effective, it is arranged to be provided through use of social media and other digital application. This is because it limits the physical requirement of resources and increased care staff which are costly to be managed (Van Rhoon et al., 2020). Thus, a digital application is to be developed to alert type-2 diabetic people to regularly check their glucose level. Moreover, the application would instruct them to record their everyday meal and amount to provide alert regarding the way they are to manage their diet to control diabetes.

The intended health service strategy is determined to be implemented by following the transformation leadership. This is because transformational leaders effectively include opinions of its subordinates to gather diverse ideas in reaching decisions to manage health complications (Galloway and Gopee, 2017). However, the limitation of transformational leadership in care is that it may make leaders manipulate their subordinates for their own self-promotion (O’Reilly and Chatman, 2020). The limitation is avoided in the strategic implemented as the leader who act true to their profession.

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