Contemporary Issues in Healthcare

Issues in Healthcare

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Identify the social determinants related to your chosen health issue and location ...................1
Explore the relationship between the identified social determinants using a health inequality
model...........................................................................................................................................3
Identify and critically evaluate strategies to address the local health inequalities .....................6
Include a theoretical perspective like the social, medical or psychosocial model to support the
identified strategies ....................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
RECOMMENDATION ..................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Public health issues basically consider as the medical issues and factors which associated
with the medical issues, which lead to the adverse impact on the population health and well-
being. Public health issues causes several other problems for the population related to daily life
such as health inequalities increase by the influence of public health issues. One of the leading
public health issues is obesity in various countries in the world and in the various local area of
the UK (Topriceanu, 2020). Obesity is a complex disease involving extra amount of the fat
deposition in the body. This is the medical problem and also associated with the increasing risk
of the other diseases, such as it can lead to the development of heart disease, diabetes, high
blood pressure etc. In this report social determinants of the obesity is analysed. health
inequalities which are raised by this public health issue (obesity) are evaluated in this report in
context to the local area (Ealing) of the UK.
MAIN BODY
Obesity is one of the serious and challenging public health issue in the UK faced by the
huge population and the childhood obesity is reaching the alarming level in many countries
including the UK. Now a days growth and development of the children's is done in the
obesogenic environment, under which children's make the unhealthy choices. Children's and
young peoples are making the choices of unhealthy food and spending more time on screen
based activities rather then physical activities.
Identify the social determinants related to your chosen health issue and location
In general the large group of social determinants which involves the subfactor or
determinants of the different health issues are consisting of the economical stability,
determinants, neighbourhood and physical environment, education, health care, social and
community. Social determinants of the health are interconnected which lead to the specific
health issues or condition in the different area on the basis of its presence and absence. Below is
the explanation of social determinants related to the chosen health issue and location (Millan and
Smith, 2019).
Economical stability
This is the main factor of the social environment which impact the people living style
and health condition. This is basically involving the person income, their cost of the living,
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