sociological theories of health and illness Assignment

Sociological Context In
Health And Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 Political, social, economic construct can be used in categorises community.......................3
1.2 Review current trends...........................................................................................................4
1.3 Influence of cultural values and beliefs in society................................................................4
1.4 Implication of societal change in health and social care.......................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Inequalities exit in health and social care.............................................................................6
2.2 Analyse social inequalities from a social perspective...........................................................7
2.3 Inequalities which exist in health and social care impact on individual’s health status and
life chances..................................................................................................................................8
3.2 Data to explain to how social and health issues are social constructed................................8
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................9
3.1 Sociological concepts and theory to definitions of health and well-being............................9
3.3 Implication of social and health issues for health and social care service providers............9
3.4 Analyse social and health issues in terms to impact on the health and well-being of
individuals in society.................................................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Health and social care is a term which is related to the services and that are available for
the providers which are related to social care. In this employees have to provide proper provision
that are related to healthcare which includes infrastructure, public as well as private sector.
Sociology in health and social care assist in analysing and evaluating the interaction between the
health among individual person as well as society. The main objective of social life is that how it
is having a influence on the morality rate (Sociological Perspective on Health, 2016). Sociology
in health and social care is accompanying to social organization which includes the family,
employment etc. There are two aspects which are included in the health and social care that is
biological and another one is how the concept of health along with the illness which is to be
considered. Task 1 report is based on Wellington Hospital which provides different services to
their patients. In task 2, assignment is made on the WHO commission and task 3 is based on the
broken society. In the below mentioned assignment, discussion on inequalities exists in health
and social care. Along with this, implication of health and social care issues are also explained.
TASK 1
1.1 Political, social, economic construct can be used in categorises community
In the society, there are multidisciplinary teams which are having their fundamental goals
and objectives in increasing abilities of individual person as well they have to overcome from
challenges and difficulties which employees of Wellington Hospital is facing in their life. Along
with this, they have to improve their different types of social needs which help in providing
proper satisfaction to their consumers (Abraham, 2010). Different factors which are construct for
the society in which different person who are suffering from the various diseases as well as
issues which are related to health and social care.
Political as well as economic construct: There are different factors which are included in
this that such as age, gender, social class etc. According to the age and gender, there are different
people who live in organisation who provide the health and care services and the person who are
living in the area with the less opportunities related to employment.. Another is relationship
breakdown and in this there are many people who are living multidisciplinary community and
they want proper care (Best and et. al., 2012).

Social construct: In this construct, the people who are included are families, unemployment,
work etc. The regulatory bodies of UK have to provide proper education to the disabled person
or people who are not capable to learn distinctive things. In the business entities in the health and
social care many families lived and it is necessary as well as essential for them to provide better
education so that they can improve their life and maintain standard (Health & Social Care, 2017).
1.2 Review current trends
In the society, current trends change time to time. The main trend is demographic and it
helps in doing the study which helps in attaining the growth, structure as well as movement of
human populations. The organisation who delivers services related to health and social care
mainly focuses on the remuneration which has to be considered in the population in the specific
time. The information which they can used by attaining from the different events which includes
birth, marriage, deaths etc.
In the economic factors, it includes development and improvement related to the wealth
as well as technology. When the person having the money then only they can make the changes
and on the basis of that they can make improvements as well (Chen, Yang and Liu, 2010). The
employees of Wellington Hospital have to use upgraded technology so that they can provide
solution to the multidisciplinary communities who are providing services to the different person
who are suffering from diseases.
In the demographic factors, it includes different factors which are profiles for population,
national as well as regional factors. It includes the size, gender, age as well as geographic
distribution of population of UK and these factors are included as the drivers in the UK
economy. The ministry bodies of UK have to do proper planning by using available resources in
the best manner so that they can manage the economy. At the national level, there are many
people who have suffered from the different diseases and they need proper support from the
government (Conrad and Barker, 2010).
1.3 Influence of cultural values and beliefs in society
Culture is the sum of learned beliefs, values along with the customs which helps in
regulating behaviour of a particular society (Salsgiver, 2015). Beliefs as well as values are the
guides of behaviour which helps in accepting the ways of different behaviour of consumers
(Berger, 2015). A belief is an opinion which reflects a particular knowledge and skills of person
as well as assessment of the issues. Cultural values along with the beliefs are different in the