UK Health and Social Care: Analysis of Contemporary Issues

This report examines contemporary issues in health and social care, focusing primarily on obesity in the UK. It details the causes and risks associated with obesity, highlighting its prevalence among adults and children. The report also explores different perspectives on health and social issues, particularly concerning the increasing ethnic diversity of the UK population and the role of local healthcare organizations. Furthermore, it discusses the relevance of findings from NHS and government surveys in informing healthcare practices and training professionals to address obesity effectively. The report emphasizes the influence of cultural differences, knowledge, and personal values on the development of different perspectives in health and social care. It concludes by referencing various sources that provide information and methodologies related to health and social care practices.

Task 3
Contemporary issues in health and
social care

3.1
pecific issues related to health and social care
Obesity: This means that a state of being overweight or fat. Its a
very common problem in UK, around one in every four adults
and round one in every five children aged between 10-12 are
obese (Scanfeld, Scanfeld and Larson, 2010). Obesity means
your Body mass index (BMI), is in between 30-39.

Cont...
Cause of Obesity: This is caused by the imbalanced between
energy consumed and energy expenditure.
• Energy consumed means the energy which we are taking in
through eating, and energy consumed means the energy what
is used by the body.
• Obesity is due to consuming fatty and sugary foods.
Risk of Obesity: Obesity can cause some serious and life
threatening conditions such as diabetes, heart diseases, some
cancer and strokes as well.
• Obesity can reduce the life expectancy of individuals.

UK, obesity rate

3.2
Different perspectives gleaned from reliable sources on specific
health and social issues
UK's population is increasing and its becoming very large day by
day and they are mostly belong to ethnic minorities' means those
people will be having different nations, different culture and
traditions. The local health care organization will not provide
them proper care and support related to the health issues they are
facing.

Cont...
Government of UK has done a great job with respect to the health
services, they have taken many initiatives in order to protect the
health of the citizen. The government understand the issues
related to health like diabetes, cancer, obesity etc. So they are
making sure that all citizens must be provided proper services
and proper information related to health issues and social
awareness (Obesity in the UK, 2015).

3.3
• Relevance of the findings to health and social care practice
locally
• The information gathered by NHS and the government of UK,
regarding obesity is from various surveys, journals, interviews
and that information is used by various skilled and qualified
professionals and by using this data, all the patients are
provided with proper medication and proper services.

Cont...
• These type of researches and events are very helpful at
different college levels because they have to provide proper
training so that the effect of obesity can be reduced in UK.
This will also help in solving the issues which are related to
ethnic or cultural diversities of the population in UK.
• The impact of obesity can be reduced very much if the health
experts professionals and doctors are trained well so that they
can give proper guidance and proper steps which has to be
followed to reduce the impact of obesity.

Cont....

3.4
Regarding there are some factors which are influence
development of different perspective are discussed below:
 Different perspective can be developed due to different
cultural of people in all over the world this give rise to
different perspective of peoples.
 In different country people belong to different culture
which give rise to different perspective in enhancement of
health and social care
 People required to develop their knowledge and
understanding toward the health problem which they are
facing at current.

Cont...
 People required to develop their knowledge and
understanding toward the health problem which they are
facing at current.
 However, with the help of information people can easily
take appropriate step which help in decreasing the issues
related to health care.
 People have different value and culture which directly
affected the growth and development of health and social
care.
 Further it can be stated if any person suffer from any kind
of disease then they take it seriously.

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