Tony Blair: Choosing Ill Health

In the contemporary world, America is one of the greatest countries. From the polio vaccine to Coca Cola, United States is mother to many inventions. As Americans, we enjoy higher quality living standards than most other parts of the world. This pleasure-oriented lifestyle makes a lot of other nations envious of us. And with the envy comes antipathy. For the time it has existed, the American healthcare system has been a subject of scrutiny and debate.

This essay will examine how the development of the Welfare State and the NHS changed the lives of the people of Britain since its introduction in 1948. To enable me to do so, I will analyse and evaluate the key relevant aspects that happened during that period.

Do you smoke, drink or have diabetes? All self inflicted have a massive drain on the NHS. They spend £750m a year on drugs to treat lifestyle diseases and from 2006 the percentage has increased, also treating and all of its complications, diabetes costs £14 billion a year to treat. It is hard to draw the line at what is self inflicted and what isn’t. People need to become more aware at what there doing and how it effects others.

P2: Describe the Origins of Public Health Policy in the UK from the 19th Century to the Present Day.

In 2014 public health England published 5 different priorities that would help the public health system on a global

(D1) Evaluate the influence of government on factors that contribute to the current patterns of health and illness in the UK –

M2 – Discuss the factors likely to influence current and future patterns of health in the UK

Stretch B. and Whitehouse M. –Health and Social Care Level 3 Book 1 BTEC National. London: Pearson Education Limited, 2010

M2: Discuss the factors likely to influence current and future patterns of health in the UK.

This was because the public health white paper, choosing health: making healthy choices easier, (2004) was introduced as the awareness of health was growing in size which forced the government to bring about the public health white paper. This document promoted societal fairness, dealing with broad causes of ill-health, inequality in the society as well as identifying individuals needs to support and empower them. In the 21th century, people are more informed; technology and science have improved, making better medical system more efficient and effective with more improved living conditions, compared to the two previous centuries.

D1 - Evaluate the influence of government on factors that contribute to the current patterns of health and illness in the uk

In this article I am going to describe the key features of public health strategies as they relate to current times in the UK.

The secretary of Health, Andrew Lansley in July 2010 published his plans for NHS reform in the White Paper including Equity and Excellence: liberating the NHS. In January 2011, when the Act was published in the draft form, it came to face considerable criticism. Then, later on in spring time, the Bill was temporarily paused and put on ‘listening exercise’, led by a panel of experts in the NHS Future Forum headed by Professor Steve Field to review the proposal and for recommendations. The government evaluated its 63 years history of services and analysed it was the biggest shift in power and accountability it had ever seen. After substantial revision, it was returned to the House of Commons where considerable changes were made following the NHS ‘listening exercise’, the Lords emphasised an

All people across the globe are entitled to the health attention they require. The World Health Organization has identified five elements to achieve this goal. These include reducing social disparities in health, providing services that meet clients’ expectations, altering public policies to address health, leadership reforms and increasing stakeholder participation (WHO, 2013).

The theoretical framework that is used in this paper is Collins’s framework, which he describes as a simple tool for policy making (Collins 2005). Collins’s framework is a framework specifically designed for health policies and is an adapted version of Bardach’s policy framework. Bardach proposes eight steps to create a policy; he calls this the ‘eight-fold-path’.