Record on Health and Social Care Assignment

The Role of
Public Health in
Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1...........................................................................................................................................3
1.2 ..........................................................................................................................................4
1.3 .........................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
2.1 ..........................................................................................................................................7
2.2 ..........................................................................................................................................8
2.3 ..........................................................................................................................................8
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
3.1 ........................................................................................................................................10
3.2 ........................................................................................................................................11
3.3 ........................................................................................................................................12
3.4 ........................................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Public health is defined as science as well as art of preventing sickness, prolonging life
as well as promoting to human well being by adopting formed efforts as well as familiar choices
of the community, public as well as private communities, individuals and organizations
(Ambrose and Ashcroft, 2016). This will also lead to promoting several factors which lead to
safety as well as improvement of health of society by providing them education, developing
policies, aware about disease and injuries prevention and many others. This report will explain
about diverse approaches as well as strategies which can be used to measure, control and monitor
incidence related to disease in society. It will also include information about the investigations
that lead to illness as well as disease situation at community in order to provide provision and
measures related to health and social care services. Moreover this can also include element that
will affect the health as well as well being of a person related to setting of health and social care.
TASK 1
1.1
Around the world there are various health as well as social care agencies are working for
determining reason why various type of diseases are spreading at continuously. These agencies
are playing essential role for community because through it society able to know healthful
measure which they are to prevent themselves from those diseases. This will also lead to
enhancement in well being of the society as well as it will also improve country strong and
productive. Some of the main example of health and social care agencies are WHO (World
Health Organization) which work ate international level, National Health Service that work at
national level and General Medical Council which is based on regional level (Atun and et. al.,
2015). These all agencies of health and social care are working for improving health of
community.
General Medical Council conduct their activities in order to provide support for
identifying health issues which are faced by society. They also conduct proper research and
analysis in order to identify informations related to medicines, preventive measure and remedies
for saving life of patients. Along with this General Medical Council also develop or set particular
standard for doctor or medical professional who are appointed for conducting diagnoses of health
issues from which society is going through. This agencies also design as well as conduct number

of training and development programmes medical professionals on regular basis and according to
requirement because it help in enhancing power as well as effectiveness of medical treatments.
1.2
In today's time there are number of diseased through which society peoples are getting
affected or suffered and due to this they also need to consult with doctors. From these diseases
some are infectious as well as few are non infectious (Brownson, Colditz and Proctor, 2018). So
it is essential for peoples as well as medical professional to identify cause in order to determine
type of disease from which they are affected because it help in starting treatment more
effectively.
Epidemiology is define as a method which are related to analysis and study of patterns,
determinants and distribution related to condition of disease and health in particular population.
This will help in developing policies and decision which are based on evidences related to risk
factors of particular disease faced by society. Epidemiology is done of both type of diseases i.e.
infections diseases and non infections diseases.
Infections diseases such as AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) which is
transmitted through HIV (Human Immuno Deficiency Virus) germ. Its mode of transmission are
having sex, sharing of injection, mother to child at the time of pregnancy or breastfeeding, bitten
by HIV person and so on. Below data are given related to population who are infected through
HIV AIDS in United Kingdom.
Illustration 1: HIV AND AIDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
(Source: HIV AND AIDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK), 2019)