`P4 Explain the main factors affecting the current patterns of health in the uk
M2 - Discuss the factors likely influence current and future health patterns in the uk
D1 - Evaluate the influence of government on factors that contribute to the current patterns of health and illness in the uk
It is highly known that there is a difference in social classes, culture and socio-economic lifestyles between the north and south of England. This ranges from the accessibility of treatments, the range of income and life expectancy and also morbidity and mortality rates. (© Times Newspapers Limited 2015) This can be known as the postcode lottery. Although the government try to enforce health care provisions to prevent these health
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The poor housing and diet are major factors of developing the four deadly diseases mentioned above. The office for national statistics reports that up to 1.1 million houses in England and Wales are overcrowded. This can have an impact on people such as a lack of privacy, cramped living conditions which may cause sleep disturbance and also affect a child’s education due to not having the silence or space to study. All of these factors could lead to anxiety and depression which would affect the patterns of public health in the uk. The North and South divide may be influenced by the population. According to wikipedia, there are 14.5 million citizens currently living in the North of England, with a staggering 8 million people living in London alone. As there are evidently much more residents in the South of England this may be why there’s a lot more money there, it also may be down to the fact London is the capital and a worldwide attraction. According to ‘The Mirror’ there report released that the average annual wage for someone in the North East of england is £24,084 and for a London citizen is £35,238. The UK overall have a typical annual salary of £27,017, the difference in income would definitely affects someone's lifestyle and there opportunities. One factor to longer life expectancy and better health throughout the UK however there may be a divide, is that the government introduced the NHS in 1984.
There are many socio-economic factors that are likely to influence current health. If people are living in poor housing conditions which could mean that their health might not be so good, they could be given housing benefits to improve the conditions. If the area where you are living, the environment might not be very good, like the waste management could be bad. To stop this from
Initially security issues wouldn’t be very high priority for this website as they had no customer information that they could lose but now that I have given them a shop and a members section, they would have to be a lot more conscious of security issues. According to my research people think that security is very important, in my research the participants of my questionnaire almost all said very important and only a few said fairly important. This is one of the sections that I see to be a high priority, this is because when a customer buys something they are agreeing to the business retaining their contact details, so they need to be highly protected from things like crashes and hacking. Security also applies to some other parts of the website, including on the member’s login, which retains their email address and name, and on the contact us page, as this retains the name and email address as well. I used a PayPal login box on the front end of the website due to what my research showed me, it was one of the most common subjects of my research, and this is the more secure payment option of the website but the Kendal golf club website mentioned what type of security they use, which was a 128 bit encryption, and upon further research I found that this was a very secure type of encryption and I plan to use that as the payment method on the website. The only problem with secure payment is that it may cost money to set up which the business may not
This essay will compare the 19th, 20th and 21st century in relation to the main public health strategies used in United Kingdom. It will also compare the similarities and differences of the living conditions in towns and cities between the three named centuries above.
Boys D and Langridge E – BTEC National Health and Social Care Book 1 (Nelson Thornes, 2007)
Merit 2 – Use different sociological perspectives to discuss patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups.
Socio-cultural - The Office for National Statistics (ONS) state that, since 1964, the population of the UK has grown by over ten million (about half of this growth has occurred since 2001), in addition the average age of a UK citizen has increased by four years. This means that not only does NHS
With this large difference it’s no wonder Manchester have a higher infant mortality. However there is another difference in the population which is there are 3 Chinese people, 4 black people, 7 mixed race 8 Asian and 24 non British with 953 white British. This shoes how the southwest is not very diverse and had has a very high population of British people. However in Manchester other groups such as Pakistani and African had the highest population. These statistics show the differences between the two areas and how urban and rural make such a big difference to the statistics. Cornwall being rural its fair to say it’s a more agricultural area with an aging population less access to public transport, on the other hand we have better air quality and les pollution. But Manchester has better public transport link meaning it’s easier to get to different public services and more jobs meaning it’s easy to find work regardless of your ethnic group. You also have to remember that Cornwall is one of the most expensive places to live in the UK second only to London and surrounding areas.
In this essay I am going to talk the patterns and trends of health and ill health among different social groupings. I will talk about each pattern and trend in its own paragraph, Social class, Gender, Ethnicity, Age and Geographical location. I will talk about the links between these to health issues. I will back these up through the use of evidence such as statistics. I will then conclude what I have found out. Firstly I will talk about each pattern and trend.
Stretch B. and Whitehouse M. –Health and Social Care Level 3 Book 1 BTEC National. London: Pearson Education Limited, 2010
The following paper is based on the differences between two healthcare systems in two different countries, these systems are the Australian healthcare system which is Medicare, and England’s National health system which is known as the NHS.
Appendix 1 compares the concerned district with England in multiple areas of health issues. According to these statistics the locality, on average, in most health areas, is a healthier population than the rest of the country. Health concerns that are, on average a larger concern than the nation have been underlined and are, for example, a higher number of road injuries and deaths, a higher number of hip fractures in ages 65 and over and higher numbers of increasing and higher risk drinking. These may be explained by such that the life expectancy in both male and
The National health services (NHS) provides a comprehensive healthcare services across the entire nation. It is considered to be UK’s proudest institution, and is envied by many other countries because of its free of cost health delivery to its population. Nevertheless, it is often seen as a ‘political football’ as it affects all of us in some way and hence everyone carry an opinion about it (Cass, 2006). Factors such as government policies, funding, number of service users, taxation etc all make up small parts of this large complex organisation. Therefore, any imbalances within one sector can pose a substantial risk on the overall NHS (Wheeler & Grice, 2000). This essay will discuss whether the NHS aim of reducing the nations need
The United Kingdom utilizes a national health service. This service is government owned and controlled. Most practitioners are employees of the government and hospitals are government run. Taxes provide nearly 80% of the funding for their health program. The remainders of the cost are covered by employee and employer contributions. Most providers and hospitals are public, although there is a small but growing private sector. The citizens of the United Kingdom pay nothing for visits to their physician or hospital stays. They also can choose which providers they want to visit and have “good access to primary care” (Hohman, 2006). The United Kingdom ranked number 18 in overall healthcare (WHO 2000) while spending only 8.4% of its gross domestic product (Kaiser EDU). In a recent poll, 79% of UK citizens “agreed that the NHS provided them with good service” (Health Science Journal, 2009).
Although it has been identified that addressing health inequalities in Staffordshire requires both organisational change in the ways public sector designs and commissions services and behavioural change in the number of people making healthy lifestyle choices , however gaps in health and care provided across Staffordshire reflect they are reactive, driven by disjointed incentives and priorities , with very little attention paid to initiatives to address social determinants of health.
This essay is looking at what the key factors most commonly regarded as being linked to health inequalities in the United Kingdom. Firstly, what does the term health inequalities mean according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) “Health inequalities can be defined as differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups. For example, differences in mobility between elderly people and younger populations or differences in mortality rates between people from different social classes. It is important to distinguish between inequality in health and inequity. Some health inequalities are attributable to biological variations or free choice and others are attributable to the external