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Inequalities in Health Care: Assignment

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Inequalities in Health Care: Assignment

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1 ...........................................................................................................................................31. Explanation of Dahlgren and Whitehead's 1992 'Determinants of Health Model'.................32. Government sources reporting inequalities in health..............................................................43. Drawing on Tudor-Hart's concept of the 'Inverse Care Law, discuss possible reasons forbarriers in accessing healthcare...................................................................................................5TASK 2............................................................................................................................................61. Two different models of health promotion used in contemporary practice............................62. Two government health strategies connecting with one of health promotion model.............73. (a) Role of health professionals in health promotion..............................................................73. (b) Importance of routines in maintaining good health...........................................................84. (a) Concept of health belief and examine 3 health beliefs present in contemporary UKsociety.........................................................................................................................................84. (b) Trans theoretical model of Health behaviour and its relationship with Health Belieftheory with example....................................................................................................................94. (c) How different political beliefs can influence health promotion strategies........................95. Plan a health promotion campaign to educate specific sector of population in UK...............9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONHealth promotion refers to events for increasing awareness of people about healthproblems or infections and relevant precautions. It can be considered as behavioural science thatdraws from biological, environmental, psychological, physical and medical sciences to promotehealth and prevent disease (Eldredge and et. al., 2016). The present report is based on healthinequalities which are required to be reduced for promoting better health of people. It isnecessary to maintain equality in society to give access to every person for gaining required careservices for remaining disease free. This assignment will focus on government sources reportinginequalities and possible reasons for barriers in accessing healthcare. It will also includes role ofhealth professionals in health promotion and importance of routines to maintain good health. TASK 1 1. Explanation of Dahlgren and Whitehead's 1992 'Determinants of Health Model'Health promotion is an important aspect which should be conduct in society on regularbasis for increasing awareness of people to take effective precautions for remaining healthy. Itincludes to organise an appropriate campaign or events for providing information to people aboutspecific problems and encourage them put efforts for reducing the same. However, it has beenanalysed that the factor of inequality is responsible creating a major issue for individuals belongsto few of communities as they face difficulty while seeking for care facilities. They always getlow class treatment and delayed services which may develop complications for them. Accordingto framework given by Dahlgren and Whitehead 'Rainbow Model', number of factors areconsidered by people which results into inequality among citizens including social, economicand environmental. This discrimination can identify risk of people to get sick, their capability toprevent illness and access to effective treatments (Sharma, 2016). The general socio-economic, cultural and environmental conditions consist several factorssuch as living situations, unemployment, water & sanitation, housing, agriculture & foodproduction and education. It also consist age, sex and hereditary factors that become basis pfdiscrimination which has been done by people and it impacts negatively on health status ofindividuals. Meanwhile, it is necessary to organise an effective health promotion campaign toencourage people for avoiding inequalities that helps to vulnerable people to get treatment easily.
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(Source: Main Determinants of Health, 2016)Some of communities in UK get discriminated while seeking for health care serviceswhich create complexities in their condition. It is essential for government to provide guidelinesto authorities of healthcare sector for improving mindset of care practitioners to encouragepeople for avoiding factors of inequality (Edelman, Mandle and Kudzma, 2017). Moreover, ithas been analysed that health promotion campaign should be much effective to remove the threatof discrimination from healthcare sector and society which facilitate to improve entire healthstatus of population of the nation. 2. Government sources reporting inequalities in healthGovernment sources can be described as articles or report which are available to analysethe range of inequality faced by people along with causes of the same. It is necessary to analysesgovernment reports to evaluate desired information related to inequalities in order to establishefficient practices and strategies for reducing it in society. Meanwhile, these report are helpful toformulate appropriate strategies to conduct health promotion campaign for reducing factor ofdiscrimination in healthcare. Illustration 1: Main Determinants of Health
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