(Solved) Role of Public Health in Health and Social Care

Role of Public Health in Health and
Social Care

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Effectiveness of approaches to control infectious and non-infectious disease.......................5
Strategies to find appropriate solutions..................................................................................6
Appropriate methods..............................................................................................................6
Appropriate findings...............................................................................................................6
Critical reflection to evaluate work........................................................................................6
Provision of services for people.............................................................................................6
Relationship between the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and the requirements of health services7
Impact of current lifestyle choices.........................................................................................8
Responsibility for managing and organising activities..........................................................9
Convergent / lateral / creative thinking..................................................................................9
Health and well-being priorities for people ...........................................................................9
Effectiveness of strategies, systems and policies ................................................................10
Changes made to improve the health....................................................................................10
Evaluation of an activity implemented to encourage behaviour change..............................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

Public Health or wellness is related to the concept of helping individuals for staying
healthy and getting protected from several health threats. It involves dealing with such factors
that have potential impact on the health related scenarios which can be a particular age or ethnic
group, locality or even a nation. This report includes the description of roles played by World
Health Organisation and many other public health departments ( Betancourt and et. al., 2016).
Apart from this, effective approaches as well as strategies have been provided for controlling the
infectious diseases. Along with that, effect of present-day style choices on the requirement for
health in the future has been depicted.
All these organisations have a common aim to provide numerous services related to
health care for all individuals. Objectives may vary but goal is same. There are no direct services
provided by WHO but tend to help several other small companies that are working for the same
purpose. They lead to help those organisations which works for introductory phase or for those
which are not functioning good in this sector. These firms get progressive during natural
disasters or calamities. Other entities such as General Medical Council aim to work in order to
protect patients by assisting in the improvement of medical education and related practices in
nation. They let to set the standard of medical services which are provided by doctors as well as
provide training to them in many fields. Several surveys are conducted for providing contribution
in the identification of levels for health and diseases.
National Health Services is best-known service in this field. It serves free to all natives at
their service points (Brownson and et. al., 2017). It is a health care community which is led by
the patient in which they depicts several services and their selected service is provided after a
consulting session.
Voluntary organizations: These can also help in measuring, monitoring and
controlling the incidence of disease in communities. These have a huge impact on the public it
becomes easy for them in educating them and making them aware about these diseases.
Epidemiology is a process which involves evaluation of several patterns, incidences and
distribution of diseases in a particular community. It tends to deal with factors which are

associated with the related cause and effect of particular diseases in environmen (Myers and
et.al., 2015)t. Some major findings of HIV and breast cancer are discussed as below:
Statistical Data for HIV:
 Approximately, around 8,400 people are possessing this disease. As per 2015, 22 percent
of natives were unaware of their status in UK.
 There are almost 7000 cases detected every year since 2015. Therefore, at the end of
2018, it has been calculated that almost one per 10,000 person will be infected with HIV
Infection.
 The status of patients suffering from AIDS in UK is around one third of total population.
Major Statistical Analysis of Epidemiology of Breast Cancer:
 It has been identified as an ordinary cancer that is identified in the United Kingdom from
1997.
 Approx 31% fresh cases are there in cancer which are found are mostly related to breast
in females.
Illustration 1: Statistical Graph of HIV and AIDS diagnosis
Source: Statistical Information of HIV, 2018