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Running Head: HEALTH CARE 1
Contemporary Issues in Health
and Social Care
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Introduction
Information is a significant source that has the ability to enhance constructive and positive
changes in the way, in which people live their lives. Health and social care plays an important
role in the society to offer effective medical care to the sick people. To provide the information
and data related to health and social care, media plays a significant role to present that
information. This report aims at focusing on significance of communicating accurate and right
social and health care information to the people to avoid the confusion and misunderstanding
through wrong information1. Sometimes, the effectiveness of this information depends on the
way, how media channels present the news to public.
The report includes the ways and techniques, which can be used to spread the health related data
to the people. It analyzes the different ways and channels of media along with their usage. In
addition to this, the impact of this information on behavior and attitudes of people will be
discussed and evaluated the ways, through which public assess the validity and reliability of
information. In the end, the effect of contemporary aspects of health and social care issues on
development of care services is included. The issue, which is taken into consideration here, is
“smoking”. In the context of social and health care, it is very important to understand that media
may have both negative and positive impact on dissemination of information related to health
care. Media is playing a vital role in the development of social and health care in United
Kingdom and worldwide.
Task 1:
Task 1.1
Information is an important factor to enhance the information current among the people of
society and it has various advantages to both service receiver and provider as well 2. It is very
significant to make the people aware and informed regarding the avoidance of diseases, habits,
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social and health issues, health care services and human rights to promote the health care among
public. Society should be aware about different problems and aspects of health and social care
such as financing, resources, different regulations and standards, sexual harassment, child abuse
and other issues in health care. Due to this, they will be able to avail the health care with proper
quality standards in secured environment as per the given standards and policies. This significant
information can be delivered to the public by heath care service providers via different media
channels such as radio, TV, word of mouth, online media, internet, journals, documentaries and
educators3. All these channels assist the health care professional in delivering the health and
social care information to the public domains.
In the United Kingdom, there are various public and private organizations that have taken the
responsibility to spread the needed social and health care data to general people. Some examples
of these organizations are such as; World Health Organization, Centre for Disease Control,
Health Protection Agency etc. The people should know that where they need to contact, when
they are abused at health and social care centers4. The government in United Kingdom is playing
an important role in assisting the society in resolving some contemporary health and social care
issues. Some of these issues are stated below;
Increasing results
The social and health care has to emphasize on the outcome of organization. It needs to give the
best efforts to get best and most appropriate results. Else, care will not be able to match the
competitive advancement in health care industry5.
2 K. Blais. Professional nursing practice: Concepts and perspectives. Pearson, 2015.
3 M. Baldwin. Social work, critical reflection and the learning organization. Routledge, 2016.
4 E. Benelli. "The role of the media in steering public opinion on healthcare issues." Health
policy 63, no. 2 (2003): 179-186.
5 P. Bennett, ed. Risk communication and public health. Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Financial immobility related
Financing is the most prominent factor for the social and health care organization. There will be
need of lot of money, so that they can match with the modern technology and development. To
overcome this issue, there are various non-profit organizations, which are offering these services
free of cost or on lower cost.
Increased cost of social and health care
With the technological development and changes, the cost of social and health care has been
enhanced. In this country, the government and non-government organizations are working to
control and manage these costs6.
In this way, the required information will allow and secure the public by providing support and
proper protection. Furthermore, the people should have different information related to treatment
of severe diseases such as cancer. By conducting research in UK, it can be stated that smoking is
the biggest causes of illness and death in the country. Every year, approximately 100,000 UK
people die due to smoking. So, the health care providers should try to give the information to
public about the smoking and its negative effects. This information can be provided through
online and offline media sources, journals, newspapers etc. Sometimes, the people fail to avail
the data or they are unable to understand the message that can lead the people to confusion and
misunderstanding. Thus, appropriate information should be reached to the people by the use of
clear and effective mode7. In this way, social and health care information can be reached to
public domain.
Task 1.2
Dissemination of information refers to communicate the information related to health and social
care to the public and society. To provide the information related to smoking properly, the
sources and ways of information are significant. In the absence of reliable and valid information
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sources, the dissemination of data will not be effective and appropriate. There are various
resources and techniques, which can be used to provide the health care information to society.
These different techniques are such as; newspapers, posters, pamphlets, radio, TV, social media,
health organizations’ websites, networking sites, visual messages etc. The above mentioned are
the foremost techniques that has a crucial role in developing awareness among people. After
gathering the information and data, it can be disseminated in different ways. With the help of
country’s newspapers such as Sun, Mirror etc., required information can be offered to society.
For instance, the information related to adverse impacts and preventive measures from smoking
can be disseminated through newspaper and magazine articles, health care centers and gyms. In
the United Kingdom, there are various websites of health and social care organizations, which
provide the information related to smoking and they encourage the people to stop smoking.
Television advertisement may be the most effective way to disseminate the information, through
which it can introduce a warning video via small television program, leaflet, radio program etc.
In addition to this, the government organizations can conduct seminars on the health and social
care issues. as a result, these communication techniques are impactful, but this data can create
some stress full situations to the population. These media sources and techniques have some
adverse effects on the people by developing some panic conditions. These conditions can be
raised from social media sites, newspapers, which enhance the fear to some severe diseases
cancer, child abuse, AIDS etc.
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Thus, it is essential to support the public, so that they can handle these adverse situations by
spreading the real and accurate information and figures on smoking. Using above techniques, the
correct information can be provided by creating messages to public health and conducting
education programs. These techniques will be very effective for health care service professionals
and providers to reach the public domain and disseminate the relevant health and social care
information8.
Task 1.3
Communicating relevant information is an important component to get the attention of people on
a major contemporary issue in UK, i.e. Smoking. It is very necessary to deliver the information,
but more important is the technique and way for presenting and disseminating of that health care
information to people. These ways of communication may have a large effect on attitude,
behavior of people and therefore the required data should be disseminated by the use of most
appropriate ways and sources according to the needs of people. These preferences and
requirements of people are changing with the changes in the demographic variables such as; age,
gender, education and class9. For instance, old-age people preferably use television, radio,
newspaper and radio, while to target the younger generation, information givers can prefer to use
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