Population Health for Harrow Borough

POPULATION HEALTH FOR
HARROW BOROUGH

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................3
Community health Profile ...........................................................................................................4
Implication of the finding of the profile ....................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES, ............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Public health organisation is defined as “ the art and science that is used for preventing
the diseases, promoting the health and well being through organised efforts of the society”.
London Borough of Harrow is London borough in north west London, England that has been
created on 1 April 1965. This report crucial information related to the issue that are affecting on
Harrow residents. Demographic, deprivation, determinants, health status are the key areas that
will be covered in essay to understand the overall health status of individual living within the
society. Bradshaw taxonomy of need theory and theories of population trends and transition are
being used to interpreted community profile.
BACKGROUND
Community health need assessment is systematic approach that involves community to
effectively identified, analysis the need of community through understanding the common issue
they face. It is process of prioritize of health needs, planning action that could be used to meet
the community health needs. In another words, it is a systematic approach that contributed in
assessment, identification of needs of the population. There are three components of the
community need assessment such as policy change, system change and environmental change
(Allen, 2020). Likewise, efforts need to be laid on making changes in the existing policies of the
company, its system and environment so that people could have more better environment to live
a healthy lifestyle.
Community health profile can be defined as a comprehensive compilation of information
about a community I,e the fact represent the health of given community from different angles. It
contribute in identification, prioritisation of health problem which is face by maximum number
of people living within the society. It is made up of all detailed related to sociodemographic,
health status, risk factor and quality of life enjoyed and health resources that are most relevant to
the community. In addition to this, the community health profile is related to community health
need assessment as on the basis of accumulate information, health professional do assessment of
the health and well being of the person (Bivins, 2020). All these are actually done with an
motive to enhance the health of the person.
Surveillance is process of closely monitoring individuals with an purpose to identify the
changes that are happening in their health status because of occupational exposure to hazardous
substance. Through monitoring and targeting specific group of people that are living in

“Harrow”, health professional and other people can easily identified and make assessment of
what all crucial health issue they are being suffering from. So, that alternative method can be
find out to overcome or eradicate their health issue by making improvement in the environment
they live, health resource they have and many more (Bosch and et.al., 2020). Hence, the manner
in which monitoring and surveillance can be related to community health need assessment can be
understand that through closing monitoring- the environment in which they people live, key
resources available, health facilities offered and many others options. Therefore, all these
information are crucial in assessment of health need of community for better outcome.
Community health Profile
 Indices of deprivation in Harrow Brough: As per the statistical facts, the Harrow is
ranked 213th out of 326 districts in England, but it is much more improved from 2010, as
borough rank 184. It was also extracted that, out of 33 boroughs, it is 6th least deprived
borough. There are three domain in which the Harrow has performed effectively such as
“Employment, Skills & Training” that means people have chance to getting more better
opportunities. While, it has been identified, that there are two domain that is “Incomes
affecting Older People” and “Barriers to Housing”, thus it ranked 48th and 61th in the most
deprived areas respectively (Cattan and et.al., 2019). It can be summarised, that the
borough level Harrow is app rear to be doing well as compared to others in context of
deprivation. Particularly in relation with Marlborough, Greenhill, Wealdstone and
Roxbourne in which there are many healthy inequalities, barrier to housing facilities and
income deprivation. Furthermore, there are certain areas in harrow that have limited
green space in Central and Southern areas of Borough that reflect greater areas of
deprivation.
The current health status of people living in the borough is that 15.6% of adults, 4,861 are
suffering from mental disorder. At the same time, there are around 54.85 of adults and 16.6% of
pregnant women that are suffering from issue of obesity. Chronic ill health issue is being
suffered by most of the people belonging to lower socio-economic groups thereby they died
earlier as compared to other advantaged. The men is biggest contributor of inequality gap in
circulatory disease that has been followed by cancer and respiratory diseases (Chauhan, 2019).
Harrow Adult Social Care Services is providing support services to around 2227 older people
that is approximately 6.6%, in comparison with London it is 8.5% and England is 6.7%. It has