The role of health organisations in controlling the incidence of HIV/AIDS and Breast cancer 5

Public Health

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Role of various health organisations such as World Health Organisation, European Union,...3
UNICEF, Department of Health, Public Health England and Local Authorities............................3
1.3 Effectiveness of different approaches and strategies used to control the incidence of
HIV/AIDS and Breast cancer.........................................................................................................5
2.1 Determine current priorities and approaches to provision of services for people HIV and
Breast...............................................................................................................................................5
Cancer.............................................................................................................................................5
2.2 Relationship between the prevalence of HIV and Breast cancer in relation to the requirements
of......................................................................................................................................................6
health services to support individuals HIV and Breast cancer illness............................................6
2.3 Impact of lifestyle choices such as diet, exercise and substance use have on future needs for
health and social care services.........................................................................................................7
3.1. Assess the health and well-being priorities for people living in a London borough................7
3.2 Effectiveness of strategies, systems and policies in health and social care...............................8
3.3 Changes that could be made to improve the health and well-being of individuals in a Health
and....................................................................................................................................................8
Social Care setting..........................................................................................................................8
3.4 Breast cancer screening programme in UK...............................................................................9
CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Public health is a field which is mainly concerned with the providing effective care services
so that positive health outcomes are produced in health and social care sector (Atrash and
Carpentier, 2012). It helps in increasing life expectancy by delivering best quality health-care
facilities to all the individuals in UK. It has been generally noted that due to change in lifestyle and
other factors, many diseases have been prevalent in recent times. In order to stop the epidemics of
all those disease, various healthcare organisations have developed effective strategies so that they
are able to enhance health outcomes of all the citizens who are residing in UK (Chowell and
Nishiura, 2014). Different healthcare facilities such as appropriate treatment and diagnosis are given
to all the patients who are suffering from various infectious as well as non-infectious diseases.
Different roles of healthcare department at all the levels will be discussed which are helpful
in treating both infections as well as non-infectious diseases in UK. Further it will also focus on
HIV/AIDS and breast cancer that is most prevalent in UK.
1.1 Role of various health organisations such as World Health Organisation, European Union,
UNICEF, Department of Health, Public Health England and Local Authorities
Many healthcare organisations and agencies have come into existence which are successful
in identifying health related issues in UK (Deeks, Lewin and Havlir, 2013). They are generally
operated on national, international and local levels so that they are able to provide healthcare
services to all the individuals in UK. Roles of some common health organisations are discussed
below.
 The main role of W.H.O is to provide medical assistance and care to all the patients during a
infectious outbreak in UK. They also focus on reviewing reasons which are responsible for
causing the spread of disease to a greater extent.
 The main function of European Union in public health is to provide protection and safety to
all the individuals with the help of various policies and activities (Drummond, Sculpher and
Torrance, 2015).
 Its primary aim is to improve public through preventing spread of different diseases and
threats to health of people in UK.
 The actions exhibited by European Union serves by complementing all the national health
policies.
 The main role of UNICEF is in advancing children and maternal health so that they are able
to promote health and well-being of all the individuals in a better way (Geist, 2013). On of
the major aim of UNICEF is to deliver effective care service to all the children and women
so that improved health outcomes are achieved.
 Public Health England aims at improving and protecting nation's health from different types

of hazards and risk related to environment. It mainly employs more than 5'500 staff
members which are able to address health inequalities and issues.
1.2 Epidemiology of HIV and Breast Cancer in UK
Epidemiology is briefly defined as adopting methods which can successfully determine
major reasons behind the prevalence of different disease that are present in UK. Different types of
approaches have been taken into account so that dreadful diseases such as HIV/AIDS and Breast-
cancer can be effectively minimized (Khatib, Yusuf and Mente, 2014). Epidemiological data table
for HIV/AIDS and Breast Cancer has been given in the below table.
Country People
Infected
with
HIV/AIDS
Adults
(16-50)
Prevalence
%
Females
with
HIV/AIDS
Children
with
HIV/AIDS
AIDS deaths Orphanage
deaths due to
AIDS
United
Kingdom
3550000 17.00% 1750050 265000 155000 1860000
Table 1: HIV/AIDS Victims in United Kingdom in 2015
Country Females
infected with
Breast Cancer
Prevalence
%
Deaths
due to
Breast
Cancer.
United
Kingdo
m.
1100000 19.7.00% 120000
Table 2: Breast Cancer infected Females in United Kingdom in 2015
 Based on the above table it can be concluded that more than 35 million citizens of UK are
prone to HIV/AIDS which has contributed to more than 17% of the total population of UK.
 Along with HIV/AIDS overall case of more than 11 million females have been diagnosed
with breast cancer in 2015 and overall mortality rate of breast cancer in the nation is more
than 9% (Mehta, Croudace and Davies, 2015).
 After other African nations, United Kingdom has been the second largest country which has
recorded maximum number of breast cancer and HIV/AIDS cases in the year 2015.