Role of Public Health in Health and Social Care- Assignment
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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3TASK 1 ................................................................................................................................................31.1 Role of W.H.O in identifying level of health and disease in communities................................31.2 Epidemiology of HIV and Breast Cancer in UK.......................................................................41.3 Effectiveness of different approaches and strategies used to control the incidence ofHIV/AIDS........................................................................................................................................5and Breast cancer...........................................................................................................................5TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................62.1 Determine current priorities and approaches to provision of services for people HIV andBreast cancer....................................................................................................................................62.2 Relationship between the prevalence of HIV and Breast cancer in relation to the requirementsof......................................................................................................................................................6health services to support individuals HIV and Breast cancer illness...........................................62.3 Impact of lifestyle choices such as diet, exercise and substance use have on future needs for.7health and social care services........................................................................................................7TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................83.1 Health and Well-being priorities in Westminster......................................................................83.2 Effectiveness of strategies, systems and policies in health and social care...............................93.3 Changes that could be made to improve the health and well-being of individuals in a Healthand....................................................................................................................................................9Social Care setting..........................................................................................................................93.4 Breast cancer screening programme in UK.............................................................................10CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11REFERENCE.....................................................................................................................................12
INTRODUCTIONPublic health can be represented as the field of study that deals with the art of avoidingdisease, increasing life expectancy among all the citizens of world. It can be achieved by organisinga team of members foe providing health and social care (Atrash and Carpentier, 2012). There arevarious healthcare agencies such as WHO, UNESCO and many more which focus on differentinfectious and non-infectious diseases. These health agencies develop effective strategies toovercome dangerous and life taking diseases which are widespread in England. Different servicessuch as treatment and prevention against the disease is provided to patients suffering forminfectious and non-infectious illness.The report will focus on roles of different healthcare departments at local national andinternational level which helps in eradicating communicable and non-communicable disease whichis common in England. It will also study the epidemiology of HIV which is a common infection inEngland. The impact of various diseases on lifestyle of an individual will also be analysed in thisstudy.TASK 1 1.1 Role of W.H.O in identifying level of health and disease in communitiesThere are various health agencies which operates to identify level of health and disease indifferent countries and communities. They can be at local, national or international level. Localauthority are responsible for providing healthcare services in every country (Beyrer, Baral andBrookmeyer, 2012). Several roles of W.H.O in identifying level of health and disease incommunities have been discussed below.When a local infectious disease outbreak takes place, W.H.O and its local healthcareofficials are the main healthcare providers along with other physicians and professionals.The roles of W.H.O includes nursing, discovering health measures and developing strategiesto analyse and find the main cause of spread of disease (De Cock, Jaffe and Curran, 2012).Department of Health functions by verifying different laboratory test, paying attention onsick and infected people so that spreading of illness can be avoided.They also safeguards and encourage healthcare safety procedures during injuries, naturaldisasters and various infections.WHO helps in generating a worldwide investigation and control system at universal level so
that different communicable and non-communicable diseases can be eradicated effectively(Deeks, Lewin and Havlir, 2013).A large number of illness control centres and local healthcare agencies have beenestablished by Local Authorities in England.They provide necessary information on ways to treat and prevent several dangerous diseaseslike HIV, Ebola, Cancer and Diabetes. It is very important develop measures to eliminatethese diseases as some of them are infectious disease and can cause death at advanced level(Drummond, Sculpher and Torrance, 2015).1.2 Epidemiology of HIV and Breast Cancer in UKEpidemiology can be defined as learning and identifying different causes behind healthrelated problems which are common in UK. Numerous approaches have been designed to performepidemiological research and investigation so that HIV and Breast Cancer can be effectivelyeradicated from UK (Fiorillo, Luciano and Maj, 2013). Country PeopleInfectedwithHIV/AIDSAdults(16-50)Prevalence% FemaleswithHIV/AIDSChildrenwithHIV/AIDSAIDS deathsOrphanagedeaths due toAIDSUnitedKingdom300000013.00%15000002500001200001500000Table 1: HIV/AIDS Victims in United Kingdom in 2014Country Femalesinfected withBreast CancerPrevalence% Deathsdue toBreastCancer.UnitedKingdom.95000016.00%800000Table 2: Breast Cancer infected Females in United Kingdom in 2014.Overall more than 30 million individual in UK are infected with HIV/AIDS and 16% withBreast Cancer which constitute to about 48% and 21% in UK.Apart from African countries, UK is the second largest country which is affected by HIV
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