Role of Public Health in Health and Social Care
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Role of Public Health in Health and Social Care
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ROLE OF PUBLIC HEALTH INHEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3Essay................................................................................................................................................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................62.1 Determination of the existing approaches and priorities to the provision of service forpeople with the chosen infectious and non-infectious disease...............................................62.2 Explanation about the relationship between the ratio of disease and need of services tosupport individuals within health and social care services condition.....................................62.3 Analysis about the current life style choice influence on future needs for health and socialcare.........................................................................................................................................7TASK 3............................................................................................................................................73.1 Assessment of the health and well-being priorities for people in health and social caresetting.....................................................................................................................................73.2 Evaluation of effectiveness of strategies, systems and policies in a health or social caresetting ....................................................................................................................................93.3 Changes that could be made to better the health and well-being of human beings in ahealth and social care setting..................................................................................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12
INTRODUCTIONIn the present time, health issues and diseases are continuously increasing in thecommunity. In this aspect, it is very important to promote public health in the country so aspeople can escape from the huge disease and health problem. Public health is a procedure toprotect and improve health of communities by promoting the significance of the individual life.In a simple way, it can be said that public health is related to securing and protecting thecommunity from infectious and non-infectious diseases. In the present report, various kinds ofthe international, national and local agencies that are effective in public health in England havebeen addressed (Alakeson, 2013). In addition to this, effectiveness of at least 2 strategies, 2systems and 2 policies in promoting the health and well-being of individual has been alsodiscussed in this report. The major objective of this report is to understand various approaches,strategies used to measure, monitor and control the incidence of disease in communities.TASK 1EssayIn every country, there are some government bodies who have major role to identifyhealth disease in population. World Health Organisation, European Union, Department ofHealth, Public Health UK etc. are agencies that assist communities by controlling andmonitoring the disease in societies. The roles and responsibilities of these agencies in the NorthLondon are discussed below-World Health organisation (WHO) - This agency is working in the health and caresector and it is an international level organisation. The major role of this organisation isto determine various kinds of diseases in the UK. Another major role of WHO is toprovide the guidance and suggestion regarding different health issue, health agenda,norms, policies etc. (Anderson and McFarlane, 2010) It also monitors and control thehealth care needs for local community.Department of Health- This is the organisation that works for determining the level ofhealth and disease in London for communities (Annor and Allen, 2008). It is a ministerialdepartment of the UK government that have responsibility for government policy onhealth agency. Another major responsibility of this organisation is to identify anddetermine the needs and requirement of people regarding their health issue and problemin London. They are mainly responsible to identify several policies, guidelines, procedure
and practices depending on the types of diseases. By these practices and policies, theycan improve the quality of care services of the patient in London.Local authorities- This is another one of the major significant agency that assists to thecommunity in identifying the disease of health. The major role of these agencies is todetermine the level of health and diseases among communities of London (Atwal andJones, 2009).Another major responsibility of this organisation is to understand the majorreason behind the diseases among the individual so as these can overcome among thecommunities.National Health Service (NHS) - This is the biggest single player in the health and carefield which provides various high quality of care services to patient. It provides its cafeservices free of cost to the citizens in the country and improve their health issues. In the heath and care sector, Epidemiology is a term which is used to assess the cause, effects ofhealth, diseases condition in the number of people. It deals with elements that are associated witheffects and cause of the disease in the environment (Beresford, 2006). This aspect helps indeveloping several criteria for clinical research support studied in the health and care sector.With assistance of this aspect, health experts can design the study by collection, statisticalanalysis of information and interpretation of the outcome. In the UK, Epidemiology of non-infectious and infectious diseases are discussed below- Non-infectious disease is Breast CancerBreast cancer is that cancer which is developed from breast tissue. While any womenhave breast cancer then she may face several signs such as lump in the breast, change in thebreast shape, dimpling of the skin, red scaly patch of skin and fluid coming from the nipple. Themajor reason for arise of breast cancer is obesity, lack of physical exercise, drinking alcohol,having children late in the life etc. In the female, while growth of breast cells starts in the wrongmanner then this kind of health issue occurred (Birnbaum, 2012). There are major two kinds ofbreast cancer that is invasive and non- invasive. Breast cancer is diagnosed by the physical examand by self-examination of the breasts, testing and mammography, ultrasound testing etc. Thetreatment of breast cancer depends upon the type of cancer. As per the research study, it has beenfounded that in the year of 2017, approximately 50000 females were suffering from the breastcancer.Trends of the Disease
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