A* - EXPLAIN HOW THE HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE PRACTITIONER PROMOTES A HEALTHY DIET

Examples of health and social care practitioner roles include:

A health and social care practitioner can promote a healthy diet, for example:

Education

Practitioners might educate others about healthy diets - for example, a school nurse might give some education to her students where she talks about a healthy diet and why it is good.

Informed choices

This means that you give people a CHOICE about what they eat, however you have given them enough INFORMATION to allow them to make a decision.

Empowerment

Through talking to a service user, a practitioner can identify what support they might need - they could set up mini goals to help the individual

Modelling

Practitioners can often act as role models to their service users - for example, if you saw Nazmin eating healthy everyday, that might motivate you to also adopt a healthier lifestyle.

Access and availability

Nutritional planning

Some practitioners may be able to sit down with service users and provide a diet plan to better support them.

Also think about demographic data - information from surveys such as the Census is used to build a picture of a population, and this enables local authorities to plan services, such as health and social care services/ initiatives