Deans Alcohol-Related Hospital Admissions: Impact and Action Plan

This report examines the issue of alcohol-related hospital admissions in Deans, a small community in West Lothian, Scotland. It highlights that Deans has the highest number of alcohol-related hospital admissions compared to West Lothian and Scotland, with men being disproportionately affected and admission rates being significantly higher in deprived areas. The report identifies alcohol as a contributing factor to poverty, crime, and road accidents in the community, placing a burden on public health services. It discusses the common diagnoses associated with alcohol-related admissions, including injuries, cancers, cardiovascular diseases, liver diseases, and mental disorders. The West Lothian Drug & Alcohol Service offers support to young people and adults, and the report suggests action plans involving WHO and HHS programs, employment opportunities, education, and community programs focused on guidance, goal setting, and diet. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of addressing alcohol-related issues to improve community well-being.

ALCOHOL RELATED HOSPITAL ADMISSION IN DEANS, A
PROBLEM TO THE COMMUNITY.
Background
•Deans is small community which is situated into town of Livingston in
West Lothian. Population of this area is around 3641.
•Unemployment and poverty is major challenging aspects within rural
area so Deans community mainly faces this issues and from this reason it
impacts on health sustainblity of people as well.
•From the evaluation of health survey of Deans community in West
Lothian and Scotland it’s been clearly identified that harmful drink
badly impacts and affects on people mental and physical health disability
and it impacts on society activities like violence, crime and many more .
• In comparison with most other areas of West Lothian, Deans has the
3rd highest number of deprivation in West Lothian and
the 11% most deprived areas in Scotland.
• Alcohol is frequently found to be a factor in poverty and deprivation.
(Demou, Hale and Hunt, 2020)
Alcohol-related hospital admissions
•Deans (1271.41)has the highest number of alcohol-related hospital
•admission than West Lothian (599.75) and Scotland(621.29).
•2.4 times more men than women are admitted.
•Admission rates 7 times higher in the most deprived areas than
•in the least deprived areas.
From the national small community survey its been identified that
alcohol mainly consumption by 2003 and 04 also in 2013 and 04
Why is Alcohol a problem in the community
•Almost crimes happens from the uses of Alcohol in poverty area
because people don’t have stability and jobs so they not capable to
manage their lifestyles and fulfil daily essential needs in Deans area
(Iveson and Deary, 2019).
• Highest number of crime act in Deans when compared to West
Lothian and Scotland. Property loss, both public and private.
• From the evaluation of data its been identified that within
2007/18 Deans had the highest number of road accidents.
• Leads to a big burden on the public health and the NHS.
•WHO data represent that alcohol is one of the most negative
aspect or impacts on health.
•From the national health care services its been analyses that
means mainly prefers and use alcohol from lack of essential needs
completion.
Need of learning this topic:
Alcohol is harmful drink which create reason of physical and mental health issues. From the
learning of this topic makes clarity in which major factors provide to individual towards with
application of alcohol (McInnes, Martin and MacArthur, 2018).
Admission by most common diagnoses
• Injuries caused by accident
•It create reason of multiple cancer in body.
• self-poisoning due to alcohol exposure.
• Cancer- highest cases in West Lothian compared to Scotland, mouth, voice box, liver and
many more cancer.
• Cardio-vascular disease
• Alcoholic liver disease
• Mental and behavioral disorders due to the use of alcohol.
•Social life influence from harm drink because of people bad behaviour when they uses
harmful drink so it affects on inivdiual mental sustainability as well.
•Mental health disorder disease management.
•Lungs damage, breast cancer.
•Alcohol has power to create serious disease and it badly damage body parts.
•This harmful drink influence mental health so it affects on communication partway and
disturb vocabulary and damage five sense as well.
•It damages immune system.
Guidance for control development on uses of harmful drinks, Influence attraction towards with
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The West Lothian Drug & Alcohol Service
• Offer help young people, aged 12-18, whose use
of drugs or alcohol impacts family relationships,
education, offending, or mental health.
• Counseling services for adults.
Action Plan
•WHO and HHS implement and engages programs for
building of awareness in people towards with uses of
alcohol not only influence individual life it affect on
social effectiveness.
•Involvement of employment to people for life efficiency.
•Distribution of education with involvement of schools
and other facilities.
•Involvement of program with live examples which build
great sense.
Problem to Family
Trust and confidence are destroyed.
Productivity drops in the workplace
Higher insurance rate. Its not mainly develop
focuses of health or well being development in
society with direct manner, it concern to
develop health effectives with indirect manner
with distribution of job, provide instructions to
adults for how they can improves their life
effectiveness with management of life goals
with sustainable manner.
Different type of actions and plans done by
Community
Programs development for health effectiveness.