Current Priorities and Approaches in Public Health

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.