Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care: Smoking and its Impact on Public Health

CONTEMPRORARY ISSUES
HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

INTRODUCTION
 There are many issues covered in health and social care and one of the selected
issue is smoking that directly or indirectly affect the public health.
 The present PPT aims to identify various articles, news or books that present
the smoking issue on public health concern and will present their thoughts and
perspective may be in terms of similarity or differences.

PORTFOLIO OF MEDIA SOURCES
REFERENCES FOCUS
Tobacco smoking: Health impact, prevalence, correlates and interventions. 2019.
[Online]. Available
Through:<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08870446.2017.1325890>.
The focus of this article is on the negative impact of
smoking on the health and provide intervention,
prevalence and correlates.
Tobacco display ban 'safeguards young people'. 2019. [Online]. Available
Through:<https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-48253960>.
The focus of this online news is on the decision on
display ban of the cigarettes or tobacco at the shop
counters and benefits of the movement.
How does smoking affect the body. 2019. [Online]. Available Through:
<https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324644.php>.
The focus of this article is to aware public about life-
threatening affect of smoking on human body.

1.1 how does information relate to health and social
care reach the public domain
Smoking is a dangerous habit for the person itself as well as for the non-smoker
too. Information related to the health and social care is a sensitive issue as well as
crucial one for the public health. In the reach, mass media has come forward to
solve the gap issue between the information and public.
 Mass media such as; TV, radio, newspaper, internet
 Social media such as; Facebook, Twitter
 Articles by health and social care professionals, books and magazines