Health And Social Care: Assignment Sample
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Health And Social Care: Assignment Sample
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HEALTH AND SOCIALCARE
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3Demographic profile of residents population..............................................................................3Health issue in residents population............................................................................................4Who is affected? Health Inequalities..........................................................................................4Social determinants of health......................................................................................................5Policies issues relating to residents population...........................................................................5Public Health Provisions in borough...........................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONThis report is about health and social care which is related to the services that areavailable from social care and health providers. This report will lay emphasis on health issue inchosen social determinants. Here, Stroke has been taken as a health issue in social determinantswhich are resident population of London Borough of Barking and Dagenham (Gulli and et.al.,2016). It is seen that stroke are much more common in people from age group between 15 to 65years and because of which life expectancy of resident population has also decreased toapproximately 60 years which is much lower than overall average of London which is 65 years. MAIN BODYDemographic profile of residents populationDemographic profile is the data about the characteristics of the residents' population likegender, age, gender etc. of all the people within the residents' population (Balogun and et.al.,2016). Population: Currently residents in borough has more than 200,00 people of population.Ethnicity: This group of people are from London. Culture of people from London has theirunique customs and tradition. Gender/Sex: In this resident population 60% of them are makeand 40% of them are female. Age: This population of resident people are from age group 16years to 65 years. Out of which 30% of them are below 25 years of Age. Lifeexpectancy: It is astatistical measure of an average population of average time they are expected to live on Earth.So, Life expectancy of resident population for males are 58 years and for females is 60 yearswhich is a bit lower than overall average of London which is approximately 64 years.Unemployment: Employment rate of this population is also below overall average of Londonand in fact more than 12% of residents have no qualification. Poverty: More than 30% of peopleare still living in poverty which is quite higher than London average which is 20.6%.Health issue in residents populationHealth issue to be discussed here in resident population is Stroke in London Borough ofBarking and Dagenham. It many be caused by blocked arteries or leaking blood vessels (Chenand et.al., 2015). Various provision of health care are intended to be taken in borough for theprevention of stroke or in other words to improve stroke outcome in patients various provisionsof health are to be taken. NHS health checks are done to identify all the individuals with strokerisk factor. Many government organizations are taking initiatives in monitoring and maintainingstroke patients registrations on regular basis. Main aim of this is to identify all the stroke patients
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