Current Priorities and Approaches in Public Health

This presentation discusses the current priorities and approaches in the provision of services for people with disease or illness. It covers topics such as prevention, treatment, palliative care, and remedial care. The relationship between the commonness of diseases and the requirements of services to support individuals is also explored. Additionally, the impact of present lifestyle choices on the future needs of social care and health services is discussed.

Public Health in Health and
Social Care

2.1 Current priorities and approaches to the provision of
services for people with disease or illness
• Prevention- When an action doing for stop something is
called prevention. In term of diseases prevention is
necessary to stop the spreading of bacteria in human
body.
• Treatment- These are provided with the aim of curing
population who have been troubled from infectious and
non-infectious diseases. It involves medications, treatment
courses etc.

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• Palliative care- It is defined as the care of people who are suffering from
disease like HIV and cancer. Care these type of people like family, which
provided by health are organisations.
• Remedial care- AIDS remain incurable, patient are living much longer.
As per the National Institute of Health there are three antimicrobial drugs
fall into three categories.

2.2 Relationship between the commonness of diseases and the
requirements of services to support the individuals
• NHS provides the treatment and care of people who suffer from HIV in
England which paid by Primary care trust (PCTs).
• Conservative/Liberal Government plans to replace PCTs with GP
commissioning consortia.
• In Wales and Scotland, HIV are patient treated by Health care companies
which is totally paid by trust.

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• National HIV/AIDS strategy also makes efforts to improve
the health outcomes for those people who are suffering
from the HIV.
• Minority AIDS initiative (MAI) which is established in
1999 also support to reduce the chances of HIV among
people by providing proper equipment's and delivery of
the services in order to treat it.

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• It is best to provide these medications and treatments under the social care
service by the government of these nations. Diseases such as HIV and
cancer today are widespread and do not have any permanent cure. It can
be seen as an important aspect for the government of these nations to find
the right medications for these widespread diseases and provide its people
with the right treatments. The social care service needs to ensure that they
are using the right strategies to ensure the individual's care and treatment.

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• It is important to provide necessary facilities to the individuals so that they
can be provided with the better options and nobody gets less attention than
others. Also, the social services can make effective use of selected experts
of HIV and Cancer to train and work in the partnership with other
specialists in order to make them learn about the cure. These all measures
are going to help the government or social care service to ensure that none
of the people are left being untreated and everyone with the disease is
being taken care of.

INCREASE IN SMOKING

2.3 The impact of present lifestyle choices on needs of
the future for social care and health services
• The present lifestyle choices are very much affecting the needs and
demands of social services in future from the people across the globe.
• The present diet of the people are one of the major reasons which in future
is going to demand health care services in large.
• It can be seen as the population of western countries are majorly leaning
towards diets that include large meats, fats, oils, and other foods which are
bad for the health.

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• These diet options are making people obese and suffering from bad
overall health. Along with it, foods which includes additives are other
major causes that are making the people of these countries cause diseases
such as cancer, diabetes, stomach infections etc. If these diets remained
the same it might impact the health of the population on large and will
make them to ask for social care and health services on a large scale.

LIFESTYLE CHOICES CAUSING
OBESITY

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• Other present lifestyle trends impacting the population are consumption of
alcohol and smoking.
• These trends are making people across the globe causing incurable
diseases. Smoking is one of the major factors of cancer related to lung,
throat, etc.
• Alcoholism is making people suffer from a variety of physical and mental
issues.

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• These lifestyle choices if continued can cause major harm to the
population and can cause large suffering across humanity. Along with it,
there will be an increase in the demand of healthcare and social services to
deal with these issues related to the health of the people. It is important
the today's generation is aware of these harmful diseases and their causes
to stay away from the lifestyle choices and their related issues.

POOR LIFESTYLE CHOICES
IMPACTING SOCIETIES HEALTH

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