Health Inequalities in Tower Hamlet: A Population Health Perspective

This report discusses the health inequalities occurring among the Tower Hamlet people and covers various types of illnesses impacting public health within the area. It also suggests ways to improve public health and reduce health inequalities.

Summative Assessment

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The concept of health is generally an area of study as well as the research and the
practices which usually place the development of health on the top priority. The concept of well-
being also aims to achieve the quality of life and improve the well-being among publically. The
public well-being in the area of Tower Hamlet is generally connected with the England average.
The Tower Hamlet area is usually one of the most deprived region approximately about 20% in
the England. In this, there is wide range of population who are residing in the low income
families approximately about 30% who are suffering from various health related illness. In this
report, there is a discussion about the health inequalities which are occurring among the Tower
Hamlet people. this report will also cover the various types of illness which will impact the
public health within the area. The main aim of this project is to improve the health among
population as well as decrease the occurring health inequalities among public (Banfi, 2018).
MAIN BODY
It is a major concern among the public in the area that various illness can be occurring
and impacting the health in a sarcastic way. In context with Tower Hamlet, the community is
facing the unique health problems or challenges with the particular levels of the poverty. In this,
it also includes the increasing number of premature death rates which is quite common among
adults from the circulatory illness, respiratory disorder as well as the cancer. The population of
Tower Hamlet if somehow raising rapidly that will lead to even more prone challenges if the
government have fail to respond on it. In adults, an elevated number in the residing ages of about
35-70 will usually bring the newer challenges for the local social as well as well-being care
services. it includes the concerns among adult age group such as the prevalence of smoking,
sexually transmitted diseases, new cases of tuberculosis, the heart related diseases and the
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The rates of the sexually transmitted diseases are quite
higher among the age group below 24 as the people who are residing in that area does not
contain enough knowledge about their health (Birkbeck, 2018).
In context with London of Borough, the region Tower Hamlet is generally the most
deprived area on the basis of three measure areas such as an average score, most deprived 10%
determination and the extended. According to the concentration measures and an average rank,
the region Tower Hamlet is generally ranked at the third most disadvantaged region in the
London. Towards this concern, it is pretty important to enhance the awareness about well-being

as well as the quality of life among the public so that they can live their life more freely. On
compare with health inequalities, the London of Borough is one of the least counted among the
life expectancies in compare with other districts for both men and women. It is ranked highest
for the poverty among older people as well as children (O’Donoghue, Walker, & Beaumont,
2021).
There are the different types of the theories to looked at the population issues as central to
understand human interactions, below is the explanations of the different population theories in
context to the community. According to the deficit model theory the minority group of the
members are different because their culture is different in the important ways from the dominant
majority group. This focus on the perceived weakness of the individuals or group and view them
as a problem. This theory in context to the health of community indicating that the health
condition and outcomes of the individuals are associated to their cultural factors which stimulate
their living style and health changes. According to this population of the tower hamlets
community are the receiver of the information and scientific knowledge. Each and every
information which receive by the population is can be prearranged. tower hamlets population is
facing the several health issues which is highly associated with their health education impact on
their lifestyle and health condition. Such as the main identified health issues of the community
are smoking, STD, newly developed tuberculosis, CVD, COPD etc. another health issues are
teen age pregnancy due to which baby birth is happen with low weight and health complication.
There are the various prearranged approaches of population awareness but that is not teaching
them effectively due to which these types of the health challenges are faced by the population.
There is the need of new strategies implementation in order to improve the people awareness
about the health care and lifestyle. Health association have to improve the medium of public
education (Boyd, 2020).
Capability approach is another most important population theory which should be sue by
the each and every community health and social care association to control the population health
condition. This is the broad normative framework which provides the alternative for the welfare
of the economic approaches to evaluate wellbeing. Primary focus of this model is individual
ability to achieve the effective functioning in life. This approach helps to assess the wellbeing of
the population, this involves the questionnaires to measure and value capability at an individual
level in health economics. According to this theory there are the two important sets of the

resource’s which required by the population to increase their capability of health care and
management. That is primary assets and instrumental freedom. In the tower hamlets capability
theory or approach is applied with the objective suitable development. London tower hamlets is
one of the most ethnically diverse population in the country, this community is also having the
highest social and economic deprivations. SDG is supporting the population by addressing
capability deprivations and providing access to the effective skills development. In context to the
reduction of the health issues like smoking and STD tower hamlets community health and social
care association have to increase the capability of the population by facilitating them with health
education, land and resource’s access, infrastructure access. And in terms of the instrumental
freedom people have to supported with the political freedom, economical opportunities,
protective securities (Day & et. al., 2020).
The demographic transition theory is the phenomenon which refers to the historical shift
from high birth rates and high infant death rate in societies due to the lack of technology,
education and economic development. In the tower hamlets demographic transition is very high
due to the lack of the acceptance of the health care interventions and control measures efficiency.
In the London and England tower hamlets teenager pregnancy lead to the higher birth rate and
higher death rate of the infant due to the lower weight of the babies due to the teenager
permanency birth, infant develop with different physical and function issues in that case which
lead to the higher death of infant. In the Tower hamlets there is the 4.4 deaths per 1,000 live
births. According to this model health and social care organization have to increase the economic
development to reduce the death rates (Day, Singh, Jones & Kinsella, 2021).
The nutrition transition theory is described by the five stages such as food gathering,
famine, receding famine, degenerative diseases and behavioural change towards the health,
balanced diet. That is very important to influence the behavioural changes in the population
eating habits and increase the food gathering for the deprive areas of the community. Theory of
epidemiologic transition this is use to describe the changing population patterns in terms of the
fertility, life expectancy, causes of death and mortality. This theory plays essential role in the
population health management, by supporting the distribution of the disease, factors underlining
their sources and causes along with the methods of the control. The major health issues in the
Tower hamlets are STD, smoking, CVD, COPD etc., lifestyle of the community population is the
key factor which contributing to the development of this health issues. Key control measures to

prevent these issues are effective polices of the population healthy life enforcement, control of
the pollution, education of the public and control of the teenage par agency to reduce death rate
(Gillham, 2018).
There are many data which are effective and allows to get the information about the public
health concern. In this, there are various information and data which allows to interpret the
information that there are adult age group who are having different health concern. There are
some of the health related issues has been identifies and evaluated though using the data which
includes smoking prevalence is one of the main health issues within Tower Hamlets. It has been
evaluated that there are larger number of adult population who get effected with the smoking.
People started smoking when they are in their teenage and start to regular smoking in their adult
age and occupational age. There are also some of the health issues which includes the sexual
transmitted diseases, cardiovascular disease, COPD and others. These are having large impact on
the overall population of the Tower Hamlet. Due to poverty and low literary teenage get diverted
through the right path and started some activities which are not good and ethical for them. Due to
not having enough education and right direction they get into smoking and leads to cause various
health issues concern which Tower Hamlets face higher health issues within public of Tower
Hamlets. In this, there is need to provide enough awareness to the people of local area where
they get enough information about the negative impact of smoking and can get some benefits by
quitting it. Due to poor education teenage not get the correct information which creates wrong
information which refers to the teenage pregnancy and cause several cardiovascular diseases.
Combine these effect leads to poverty in their adult age and they need for better health care
concern for the better health improvement in the public health (Heslop & Ormerod, 2020).
There are various data which is helpful to analyse that there are large number of
population who are getting affected by the poor education and poverty which leads to create the
situation of not getting enough information about the right way of living which also impact the
quality of life. Form the demographic data, it has been analysed that there are large number of
adult population who are regular smoker which creates the situation of getting different health
related diseases which includes the COPD and cardiovascular disease. According to local
authority data, it can be analysed that Tower Hamlets have the large population who are getting
negatively impacted due to sexual transmitted disease and having higher number of tuberculosis.
These are higher in number in comparison to London. Adult group 25-64 are in higher number

who get impacted through these main health issues. It has also been analysed that there is
increase cases of the induced tuberculosis incident rate which need to be improved and should
take into consideration which are causing due to using less preventive methods. There are large
number of population who are getting impacted due to poverty and less effective in the case of
getting better public health. There is need to implement some awareness program that can be
highly effective to educate people of Tower Hamlets for better health education and allow to get
better information about the health issues. It is also analysed that New STI diagnosis rate are
significantly worse than the London which also needs to take into consideration. There is
analysis that there is higher violet crime rate in Tower Hamlet rather than in overall London.
This is the reason which causes high load on the hospital of emergency cases which causes due
to violence crime this also includes the sexual violence. There is health inequality where adults
are in higher number who are getting regular smoking along with manual occupations. There are
also large number of population who are getting injury at road which are causing due to accident
which can be seriously injured or killed. While analysing such information about the health
related major concern within Tower Hamlets created the situation of getting high need for the
health which can help to get better quality of life with improved public health quality (Joseph,
Brodribb & Liamputtong, 2019).
According to previous discussion, it has been observed that there is need to improve public
health issues of the Tower Hamlet where there is high requirement for health needs which
includes the health education, disease prevention, treatment, diagnosis, terminal care,
rehabilitation and others. These are some of the heath needs which can be effective for
improving health of Tower Hamlets community for improving their health concern and reducing
the higher cases of smoking, sexual transmitted disease, teenage pregnancy, COPD,
cardiovascular disease and other major health issues. Tower Hamlet Council can run some
awareness program which can have the role of to education people about achieving good health
and avoid smoking to for health improvement, educating people for disease prevention and
others. Through this awareness program, community of Tower Hamlets can get education and
have the information which can allow them to improve their quality of life by following the
instruction and to avoid the poor lifestyle which leads to negative health impact on public health.
There is need to improve the diagnosis process which can be effective and allow to get better
treatment after this. Through educating people, it helps public to get better disease prevention

which can be effective to avoid such type of main health concern in order to improve the public
health. Rehabilitation can also be effective and allow public to reduce the case of smoker within
local area. These are some of the health needs which should be there for improving the health of
public for their improved health (Loeffler, 2021).
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can be concluded that population health is highly important
for getting better public health within local area. There are many data available which can allow
to evaluate and analyse that there are many main health issues which are impacting individual
health through getting different disease and other health concern that is impacting the public
health. There is identification of some of main health issues like smoking prevalence, sexual
transmitted diseases, cardiovascular diseases, COPD and teenage pregnancy. In this essay, there
is discussion about the comparison between the local authority and London which have
significant information about the local area. There is also some discussion about the key concept
about the population health. There is also discussion about the health inequality within Tower
Hamlet. This essay also includes how to overcome from the health challenges. There is also
discussion about the health related theory which are associated with health concern to Tower
Hamlet.

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