PUBH 6806 Principles of Public Health Assignment
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Principles of Public Health (PUBH 6806)
Added on 2020-05-01
PUBH 6806 Principles of Public Health Assignment
Principles of Public Health (PUBH 6806)
Added on 2020-05-01
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Running Head: Public Health Principles of Public Health
Public Health 1Health status affected by the economic and social condition is known as the determinants of health. People’s working and living conditions are affected by these factors in their every day’s working. Health is affected by certain reasons which are heavy working hours, stress of work life or personal life, severe diseases, etc. major factors which affect the health of an individual is workplace and its environment, genetics, income, education level, work status, etc. Along with these factors, friends and family members are another crucial factor which could affect the health of an individual in positive or in negative manner. It is generally observed that individual with high income does not face health issues while people with less income suffers from huge health issues. In order to reduce these health determinants, various health and social care centres have initiated campaigns for spreading the awareness amongst the public. Apart from the health and social care institutes, government of UK has established various courses through which people are literate for dealing with such health determinants. Various types of inequalities have also been noticed in workplace environment, outside the workplace as well as within the families. These inequalities reduce the confidence level of the individual and italso affects the health condition in negative aspect. Generally, inequalities are performed by the senior authorities by misusing their powers. Apart from the workplace environment, inequalities are performed on the basis of disabled, colour, sex, caste, etc. Under this essay, various measureswill be discussed in accordance with adaptation of actions to improve the health conditions as well as to tackle inequalities in UK. Heath and social care centres, professional doctors, nurses, etc. plays crucial role in improving the health conditions of the individuals. Along with the professionals, individuals also need to adopt certain steps through which they could be able to reduce the impact of health affecting factors (Barten, Fustukian & De Haan, 2009).
Public Health 2Social determinants of health which affect the condition of the individuals are the joint set of scenarios such as grow up, live, work and born. Under this, education, health system, financial security, housing and the built environment are being included. According to World Health Organization, various social and economic policies needs to be builds up in UK in relevance with decreasing the impact of the factors which are leading to the health and inequalities factors (Cooper & Clarke, 2011). As per the analysis, it has been observed that thesesocial determinants are majorly responsible for unfair health “inequalities”. Thus, the health conditions which are impossible to cure still have chances to be cured and those conditions which arise due to human faults. The social determinants which are controllable should be avoided on the priority basis. Following are some of the social determinants which affect the health conditions:In England, people living in the luxurious locations are living 7 years more that the people living in the lowliest areas.England’s average difference in the life expectancy between the luxurious and poorest areas is 17 years.Average men’s life in rich areas in Scotland is 11 years more than the average life of menin least deprived areas. There is an average gap of 18.5 years in the individuals living in rich and poor locations in terms of living in good health conditions.In terms of lack of knowledge and education, unskilled labours are more affected by cancer in terms of professionals. Northern Ireland have same situation and there people living in poor areas are dying 8 years before than the people used to live in richest areas (Davis & Souza, 2009).
Public Health 3Income gap also leads inequalities such as economic and it becomes the determinants of health. Relationship exists between the health and the income and it causes severe issues to the individuals. It can also be reviewed from the above figures as well as the prediction could be made in accordance with the income and the health status. Low income, lack of education facilities, unemployment is the major reasons which affect the health conditions of individuals and these are known as low economic status. All these factors lead to unhealthy working environment as well as it develops a negative image amongst the users regarding the workplace environments (Healy, 2011). In accordance with reducing the effects of economic health inequalities, UK government needs to adopt certain strategies which could reduce the economic inequalities. In order to improve the health conditions in UK, nursing services could also be arranged. Nursing services will play a crucial role in the enhancement of the performance of the individuals with less income and in the same manner; it will provide adequate benefits to the individuals in order to live the life in an adequate environment. These services should be provided to the less income group of people at cheap costs and the same services should be rendered to the richest areas at high prices. This is necessary because people with less income and with lack of economic stability will not be able to spend much on improving their health conditions while it can easily be beard by the rich people (Hughes & Ferrett, 2012). Public health issue is increasing rapidly and the major factors which are responsible for this are social inequalities in health and it has been a greatest challenge. Public health issues majorly arise in the streets where generally low deprived people used to live. People over there have major chances to get infected through various physical and mental issues (Ki & Hon, 2012). People with less income suffer from many diseases in comparison with people of high income group. For instance, people struggling on roads without homes and with no jobs in hand need to
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