What suggestions are being made to improve the health issue?

What perspective is the writer or community/ researchers drawing on? 

What other ideas or perspectives might there be on responding to this health issue?

Any dominant or non-dominant views on health reflected in the articles? 

Discrimination

Obesity

Mental health

Physical health

Access to health care

Fat shaming

Body dysmorphia

Social determinants about health

Public health campaigns

Health policy and legislation

Physical activity and exercise

Personal Freedom – People should have the freedom to these choices and people argue the government’s restrictions such as making it mandatory to vaccinate, restrictions on smoking, and laws on seatbelts limit personal choice

Fear-based health campaigns can backfire, for example using scary imagery and worst-case scenarios like the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome often makes new mothers more anxious, especially when campaigns don't explain how rare these risks actually are. 

Anxiety is normal and common, but it shouldn’t be worsened by messaging. About 1 in 10 new mothers experience clinical anxiety, and poorly designed health messages can push normal worry into something more serious.

What suggestions are being made to improve the health issue?

Regarding communicable diseases like small pox, the incidence of the disease decreased due to old public health initiatives like mass immunisation programs. For tobacco use the social model of health is more effective as building a healthy public policy such as increased taxes on cigarettes can deter use. For seatbelt usage, similar government policies can be applied like fines for misuse and even reorienting health services to educate people on the risks of not using them.

They also suggest that campaigns should be run to further educate the general public and health care providers to reject the use of stigma engagement.

• Water Safety

• Risk taking behaviors

• Drowning

What suggestions are being made to improve the health issue?

• Talk just before they go

• Share real life stories

• Discuss group dynamics

• Deflate false sense of confidence

• Make brave choices

What perspective is the writer or community/ researchers drawing on?

• Psychological responses - emotional and cognitive risks of making decisions around water

• Social responses - peer pressure and how groups impact decision making

• Gender risk taking

What other ideas or perspectives might there be on responding to this health issue?

• Making sure teens understand water safety

• Think before they do

• Parents needing to educate their kids

Any dominant or non-dominant views on health reflected in the articles?

• Individualism

• Collectivism

• Holistic approaches

• Social determinants of health (education)

That we need to start by recognising the link between where people live and their socioeconomic status. Also consider equity into why internet access is low, why there are few places with labourers and professionals and why education is less likely to go above year 11 and what to do about these things.

Colonial and capitalist underpinnings- They were using a very wester focused approach to public health and reducing illness with the use of vaccines and health promotion campaigns.

• Other ideas and perspectives following the article are the socio-cultural impact on the fat stigma and the toll it can take on mental, emotional and all other facets of health and wellbeing. The article elucidates how shock horror tactics E.g. television shows "Grabbable Gut" can exacerbate the issue rather than hit it head on. This supports the theory of way the societal beliefs and culture around obesity impact the people. The idea of health and wellbeing impact runs a lot deeper than just on the surface insults and superficial wounds. The article covers the way in which this can damage people further than the weight itself.

discrimination against obese people is allowed and not given a second thought

an individual responsibility to help benefit their health

prejudice against them in many different scenarios like work place, housing and just normal days to day life

Non-dominant:

That it is further than a solely physical cause rather than also a mental and genetic battle

overall clear opinionated piece as all groups think differently upon the situation

-treating illness after it occurs

-improving health as a way to prevent disease

-looking at environmental and social factors

-aiming to address the underlying issues of health