Policy Recommendation
The growing chronic disease epidemic can be attributed to several risk factors such as unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, and substance and tobacco use. Thus, policies that can help battle this impact can be crucial to reduce the community’s burden and create a healthy environment. In addition to placing limits on the sale of tobacco and establishing smoke-free workplace laws, other policies that can be set include;
Building a Healthy School Environment
Behavior that leads to chronic diseases is usually set at an early age. School health programs that facilitate and promote health behavior can be an efficient way of reducing the risk of chronic conditions among students and their families (Raghupathi, 2018). This policy will require the incorporation of education of chronic illness both in class and in extra-curricular activities to help the learners acquire the skills and knowledge they can use to prevent these ailments. Skilled-based learning can incorporate participatory learning experiences that the importance of a healthy diet, engaging in physical exercise, and the effects of tobacco and substance use. Counseling and assistance programs can be offered to students, especially those with the risk of developing chronic diseases.
Financing Health Promotion and Care
Chronic diseases not only impact the health of a population by also affect economic growth. Although financing long term and prevention care is faced with barriers, there are several beneficial interventions, which are low-cost to enact. Fiscal policies such as value-added tax can impact healthy food consumption and foster access to recreation sporting amenities. Another policy intervention includes advancing programs such as a national health benefit for screening, prevention, long-term care, and treatment. ACA is one law that can benefit from financing since it lacks an effective financing system.