Nursing Health politics

The essay is about health policy analysis. The chosen population is obesity. You could look at “A call to action on obesity” but mainly you should read “Healthy lives, healthy people” which is attached.

This policy is still relatively new so consider likely impact and why you feel it will go in this direction. Will this make a significant difference to the obesity problem/people?

Use documents on obesity to show strong link between poverty and ill-health.

Key issues – protect health, empower leadership, tackle wider factors.

Nudge theory and ladder of interventions.

Ideology – started by being led by central government now individual responsibility (neo-liberalism)