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Socio Economic Influences of the Health - PDF

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11. Explanation of Dehlgren and Whitehead 1992 determinant of health model.........................12. Identification of government sources based on three reports..................................................23. Determining the Tudor Hart concept of inverse care law.......................................................3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................42.1 Define and explain two models of health promotion and two health strategies incontemporary practise.................................................................................................................42.2 Two government health strategies for health education at regional level.............................43........................................................................................................................................................5a) Explain the role of health professionals in health promotion................................................5b) Discuss the importance of routines in maintaining good health............................................54........................................................................................................................................................6a) Explain the concept of health belief with examples ..............................................................6b) Explain the relationship between health belief theory through transtheoretical model ofhealth behaviour..........................................................................................................................6c) Explain the relevance of providing health information to public through schools, workplaceand neighbourhoods....................................................................................................................8CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTIONA good health leads to a better society. This is possible when healthy environment isdeveloped within the society. It is done by providing effective and proper information to people.It is the responsibility of government to ensure that healthy environment is maintained. Theycontrol and regulate the health services within nation (Lewis, 2015). Also, they set standards tomeasure the services. This report will show socio economic influences of the health. Also, healthrelated inequalities will be identified and barriers will be evaluated. Also, the role of governmentand professionals will be discussed in promoting health. In another section, effects of conflictswith local industry and importance of health information will be studied. Further, health relatedplans will be discussed. TASK 11. Explanation of Dehlgren and Whitehead 1992 determinant of health modelHealth services are influenced by the two factors. These are social and economic. Anychanges in these two factors will have a great influence on health. It is important to reduce theinfluence of these factors so that effective health services can be provided and healthyenvironment can be maintained (Yanek, Becker and Koffman, 2016). In this, there are manydeterminants that describe the socio economic influences. These are as follows:Dahlgren and Whitehead defined social determinants on the basis of two factors througha model known as rainbow model. They created a relationship in between individual,environment and health. In this, individual is kept at the centre and they are surrounded byfactors of health environment such as lifestyle, working conditions, community, etc,. They havedescribed the three layers.
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Figure 1: Rainbow modelIndividual lifestyle factors - The first one describes the personal behaviour that how anindividual can promote health at his or her own level. It states that individual can damageor develop his health. It also contains age and sex factors that influences individualhealth. For example – the choice to smoking will not be affected by friendship orcommunity norms. Social and community factors - The second is social layer that can influence both inpositive and negative way. It can provide support in critical situation (Dickerson andet..al 2018). Also, it cannot help in promoting health that will have a negative effect. Socioeconomic and cultural environment- The third layer consists of structural factorsthat include housing, working conditions, etc. All these elements are important inproviding basic and essential facilities of health.
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