Contemporary Debates on Health Disparities in the UK

Contemporary Debates

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION..............................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................... 1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................. 1
REFERENCES.................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
The concept of health and social care generally involve a care treatment of
disease health as well as a medical conditions in healthcare organizations, welfare
centres and across community. While talking about social care, it is generally a care or
support provided to vulnerable people in a community, across country. Its concept
significantly include a person's control, physical, capacity as well as psychological
components to being well. The report will cover contemporary debates on concerns of
health disparities across UK and the specific actions taken by government in order to
addressing these such concerns. While talking about health inequalities across United
Kingdom, there are various issues that are affecting life of people in UK such as life
expectancy, prevalence of communicable illness such as infection caused by viruses
like COVID and so on, prevalence of non-communicable illness such as cardiovascular
illness, diabetes, cancer and many more. In this, there are also some other factors that
can create health disparities such as discrimination, gender inequalities, socio-
economic gaps that can contribute towards differences in well-being outcomes within
both communities and across UK. In order to reduce influence, there are some of
measures that are significantly taken by government to the population so that
prevalence of specific causes can be overcome effectively (What are health
inequalities?, 2020).
MAIN BODY
Health disparities are generally about having reduced status of particular
people's well-being. These are generally an avoidable as well as an unfair disparities in
well-being status among group of people or the communities. In this, well-being
disparities are generally the systematic differences in opportunities groups specifically
have to attain an optimal well-being, leading to an unfair as well as an avoidable
varieties in results of health (Pachankis and Bränström, 2018). The dimension of social
identity as well as location which can structure the differential access towards various
opportunities for well-being including gender, race, employment, ethnicity and socio-
economic status and many more. In addition, there are also structural disparities are
generally interpersonal, personal and social as well such as sexism, racism, classism
and many more. It can make such identities salient to fair distribution of well-being
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