Impact of Diabetes on Health Care Systems

The assignment explores the growing problem of diabetes in the UK, its impact on healthcare systems, and the need for cultural awareness in patient care. It suggests a series of measures that healthcare institutions can take to mitigate the effects of diabetes, including education and support for patients, nurses' role in providing care and guidance, and understanding the cultural context of individuals.

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Table of Contents
IINTRODUCTION.............................................................................................................1
TASK................................................................................................................................2
Factors affecting health of individual and society.........................................................2
Chosen health issue - Diabetes type 2........................................................................2
Two factors - Culture and Psychology.........................................................................2
Health promotion strategy for preventing diabetes type 2............................................3
Role of nurses in various field of nursing.....................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................. 6

INTRODUCTION
The chosen health issue is diabetes type 2 under this report. Two factors which
is covered under this essay is culture and psychology. Process of handling the issue is
detailed under this and three fields of nursing which are discussed under this are mental
health, learning disability and child diseases (Adam, 2014). Diabetes is basically a
group of metabolic disorders under which high blood sugar found in a body of a person.
Symptoms of this are increased thirst and hunger of an individual. Main reason behind
this is when body of an individual fails to produce enough insulin.
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Large number of people are suffering form this disease in UK. Number of men
suffering from this disease is higher then women in the UK and in every hour minimum
17 people get diagnosed. So it is very necessary to stop this disease and for this first
step is to make the people aware about this disease as large number of people are
unaware about this disease and did not know about the risks which are causing this
disease (Marmot and Bell, 2012). Various strategies and process which can be used by
the health care centres of diabetes in UK is also detailed under this report.
TASK
Factors affecting health of individual and society
Health issues chosen under this is Diabetes type 2 and the factors which are
taken under it that have their effect on this health issues are culture and psychology.
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Chosen health issue - Diabetes type 2
Two factors - Culture and Psychology
Culture: Type 2 diabetes is more common in the citizens of UK. A research has
shown poor blood glucose control and lack of knowledge and awareness about the
management of Diabetes among people. Research reveals some of the dietary customs
food products which can affect glucose in the body of patients and indicate that
problems regarding sending information to the patients should be solved. It shows the
common beliefs held by patients which help physician in understanding what patients
think and show poor compliance (Detels and et. al., 2011). In this situation, all patients
should be approached as individuals so that their unique needs and problems can be
solved according to their cultural backgrounds.
Culture is one of the phenomenon which displays behaviour of different
individuals and beliefs of a group. It is very difficult but one of the most important factor
which should be understand by the individuals working in health care sector. Basically
culture is defined as the shared values, beliefs, traditions and identities of a group which
differentiate that group from the other. Language, norms and values also come under
this which helps in creating a sense of social support among the people of same culture.
All these assists in implementing the health styles and proper utilisation of all health
care services and professional advice. Sometimes, cultural barriers affect the treatment
of diabetes. As it is a long term and serious disease and one of the major issues
worldwide, it affects every society and this is seen as lack of knowledge about this
disease among large number of citizens especially in the people of UK ( De Villiers and
et. al., 2013). A research reveals that people suffering from this disease do not receive
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proper care or treatment. The national service framework for Diabetes set the minimum
standards of service which should be delivered to all patients of diabetes. All services of
health care industry should be designed by ensuring the factors like patient's
background. As cultural and language barriers largely affect the quality of services
delivered to groups or individuals suffering from diabetes, better understanding of
culture of an individual or group of people helps in improving the quality of services
delivered to a large number of people.
Psychology: Patients of diabetes need psychological support during time of
their treatment. As psychological support plays an effective role in managing the
behaviours of patients, without this, patients do not give his or her full attention during
the time of therapies which affect their health. This increase the burden on healthcare
institution and system (Granskär and Höglund-Nielsen, 2012). Psychological aspects
tell about emotions of individuals, their self-regulation and behaviour during the time of
treatment. All this affects the future thinking and illness perception of an individual.
Positive psychological support protects diabetic patients from the negative effect
of illness, emotional disorder and help them in managing their behaviour along with
encouraging the physical health. Patients having values personal beliefs strengthen to
the self efficacy and self relation which leads to healthy behaviours and positive
experience of patients. Along with this, affect the personal will of a individual and results
in better functioning and better control of disease.
According to a research, Diabetes type 2 is one of the common and serious
diseases in UK and it is one of the common causes of death of large number of people.
Various campaigns of diabetes of UK need to raise awareness among people about this
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disease. With regard to health psychology, it is an internal factor which affects the
perception of people regarding health related behaviour. According to different beliefs
and attitudes, people behave different form each other. In this situation, it is advisable to
diagnosis for better understanding the background of people.
Health promotion strategy for preventing diabetes type 2
As there is no cure for diabetes, this disease can be prevented. In the UK, for
curing diabetes, finding out the risk and reducing it is necessary to make it simpler for
people for making healthy choices every day (Meade, 2010). Following two steps can
be followed for preventing diabetes type 2 in the UK. Raising awareness: It is essential that everyone first understand the risk of type
2 diabetes as it is widely misunderstood by a large number of people. Many
people are not aware about the causes which create the risk of developing
diabetes. So, it is essential to first understand and find out the risk. Also, for
individuals, for find out the risk causing disease called diabetes type 2 is
significant.
 Taking action to reduce the risk: Once after finding the risk, it is necessary for
the individual to know what to do next. In England, a diabetes prevention
programme was held in which health care people supported a large number of
individuals for reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes. Same scheme can be held in
various areas of UK.
It is necessary to use an effective tool for decreasing number of patients suffering
from the disease of diabetes. So, in this case, firstly large number of public should be
made aware with this disease. As current treatment are not enough effective for
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controlling its impact. So necessary modifications can be one in the tools for provide
benefits to large number of people (White and et .al., 2012). After that variety of
treatment and prevention strategies should be offered so that this disease can be
controlled.
Main risks of arising the diabetes type 2 is overweight and heredity problem of an
individual. As today large number of people are at high risk of this disease so there is a
need to implement various diabetes prevention techniques in UK. A programme can be
conduct with the aim of reducing the risk by maintain a healthy weight and by
recommend the healthy activity or balance diet to the people. In this situation, it is very
important for and a big burden on NHS for implementing large number of activities for
reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes. As this type of risk is developing mainly in adults
so, this should be decreased by encouraging various health related activities.
Role of nurses in various field of nursing
Role of nurse in mental health: Nurses play an important role in the area of
mental health. As it is the responsibility of nurses to provide proper care to individuals.
Nurses take care of the patients by maintaining effective chronic constitutions. Special
care provided by nurses to the adults and older people. Along with this nurses take care
of children and of young people suffering from health problems.
Different people suffered form different heath disease and in this case nurses
play an effective role to deal with different kind of people having different age. Some of
them are adults while other are children. Being a nurse it increase the responsibility to
handle large number of people having different perceptions. Attitudes and behaviours of
nurses affect the lives of large number of people. Nurses do a lot of efforts for improving
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the health of patients on daily basis. As a nurse of mental health it is the responsibility to
positively encourage the activities of patients suffering form various mental issues.
Provide proper and acute care to individuals is one of the main responsibility of a nurse
working under this sector along with this administrating patient's treatment (White and
et. al., 2012). For improving the mental health of patient nurse interact with the family
members and friends along with this nurses organise group therapies sessions for the
people suffering form the same disease.
Role of nurse in learning disability: The main role of nurse under this sector is
to interact with large number of people and provide them support for maintain their
health and live life interdependently and successfully. Along with this provide support to
the friends and family members of patients. In learning disability concept nurse teach or
tries to make the people learn about the activities for doing their work and attain their
objectives of daily life. For this nurse make the plans and recommend people for
increasing the quality of their daily life. Along with this nurses helps patients to stay
healthy and get proper medical facilities and treatment to make their career and help
their family members.
For this nurses make plans for using expert techniques of communication and
tries to understand and interpret outcome of individuals. After that nurses coordinate the
plans of patients with health care professionals for completing the paperwork (Kim and
Choi, 2017). Nurses have to play an multi role with the patients having different age and
culture as all this affect the type of treatment given to the patient.
Role of nurses while giving treatment to child: One of the effective role which
nurses play is during the process of providing or delivering care or treatment to child. As
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large number of children have their worst fear during the time of hospitalization or during
the process of injections and needles. In this nurses play an important role in to provide
emotional support and help them in cope up with their fear. A research revel that nurses
play an important role and provide support to children by doing various type of
conversation with them. For betterment nurses should try to treat every children in a
different way as every child belong from his or her own world and in this it is the
responsibility of nurse to provide support to children during the time of their treatment.
Proper care of nurses to children protect them form various infections and
provide them guidelines how to behave during the time of treatment. As large number of
children does not like to go hospital and during the time of treatment so in this situation
nurses play an effective role (Adam, 2014). Supportive behaviour and positive attitude
of nurses encourage different kind of children for the treatment.
CONCLUSION
From the above information it can be concluded that people suffering from the
disease of diabetes is increasing in UK. This situation create the burden of various
health care institutions and this is the time of government of UK to aware people about
this disease. A sequence of steps can be followed by the institution for stopping this
disease. Psychology and culture of different individuals affect their health and society as
big. For providing better health services to patients it is very necessary for the health
care people for to understand the culture of people this affect the quality of services
delivered to t
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