Reviewing Cultural Perceptions and Inequalities in Health

Reviewing Cultural Perceptions
and Inequalities in Health

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Assess the extent to which medicine has contributed to the decline of disease and increase in
life expectancy.............................................................................................................................1
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Critically examine concepts, theories and studies which seek to explain inequalities in health.
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TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................15
Identify differing concepts of health and illness........................................................................15
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................16
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................17

INTRODUCTION
The concept of well-being disparities are generally the preventable, unjust as well as an
unfair differences within the well-being status of an individual, group or across communities
which arises from an unequal dispersion of the economic, environmental as well as social
conditions among communities, that can determine the developing risk of people getting weak
with health, and their capability to prevent illness or the opportunities to take specific actions and
can access the care treatment when the ill well-being happen. In this, there are some of the
actions which can be taken over the social determinants of well-being that can effectively
decreases the well-being disparities such as employment, education as well as housing. In this
report, there is a discussion about the therapeutic effects of medicines that has contributed
towards decline of the specific illnesses which can create health inequalities among public. In
addition to this, there is also a discussion about the effective theories and concepts that can help
to illustrate health inequalities more appropriately among public in the United Kingdom
(Nascimento et. al., 2019).
TASK 1
Assess the extent to which medicine has contributed to the decline of disease and increase in life
expectancy.
In effort towards access the contributions of the medical care to the well-being
enhancements, the goals of the care should be addressed first. In this, the saving of lives in acute
life-threatening emergencies is an essential such goal, but it can depict a very small component
of the total medical efforts, while the lives are saved, the sum of saving is too small to have a
measurable impact on the life expectancy of whole population (The role of cultural, community
and natural assets in addressing societal and structural health inequalities in the UK: future
research priorities, 2021). The concept of life expectancy is generally a key summary measure
of the well-being as well as health of all population. In this, a life expectancy of whole nation can
effectively reflect its economic as well as social conditions and the quality of its public well-
being and well-being care infrastructure and within other factors. In this, the monumental
enhancements within the life expectancy have been the predominant trend for the elevated
income, improved countries within course of both 20th and 21st centuries. During the absence of
wars, substantial or the new epidemics economic reforms, lack of enhancements or stagnation
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within life expectancy improvements are generally viewed as a cause for concern as well as an
actual declines within the life expectancy are mainly alarming. The inactivity or the downfall
within the life-expectancy can indicate a decline within the well-being profiles of the public
generally driven by the adverse socio-economic trends, a deterioration within the provision or a
quality of well-being care services, or worsening the behavioural factors. In addition to this, from
the numbers of years of the symptomatic relief, there are generally several years of disability
which are specifically prevented by effective therapeutic interventions. Such as, the effective
care treatment or the prevention of hypertension can effectively contribute towards a decline
within a consequent incidence of both non-fatal and a fatal cardiac arrest and strokes and to a
consequent decline within months and years of reduced mental as well as physical well-being
functions. Likewise, if it can be possible to prevent dyspepsia of peptic ulcer, or to prevent the
recurrent biliary colic by simply removing the gall bladder, the months as well as years of relief
or an improvement can be effectively estimated. In this, the months as well as years can then be
added to create an inventory roughly comparable to the disability-adjusted life years (DALY).
Furthermore, the years of enhanced both mental as well as physical functioning or of prevention
or betterment of suffering and pain, add up towards a measured about 100 people, which is about
five years on an average per person (The role of medical care in contributing to health
improvements within societies, 2001).
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