Health Inequalities: A Report on Addressing Health and Social Care

This report addresses health inequalities in the UK, focusing on current public health issues such as obesity, accidents, smoking, pollution, and substance misuse. It explains how population data highlights health determinants and explores various intervention types, including primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions. The report details strategies to reduce disease incidence in local communities, the roles of statutory bodies like Public Health England, and the responsibilities of healthcare professionals in preventing and controlling the spread of disease, including infection control measures. Challenges faced by healthcare professionals, such as Clostridium Difficile and lack of education are also discussed. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of addressing health inequalities for national growth and the need for unbiased and accountable health system arrangements.

Addressing Health Inequalities in Health &
Social Care
PART I

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Living a healthy life is very important for human beings. Public health is the
science of protecting as well as improving the health of people and there
communities.
This work is accomplished by promoting healthy lifestyles, researching disease
and prevention of injury as well as detecting, preventing and responding to
infectious disease. Health inequalities are unfair and avoidable differences in heath
status between groups, individuals or population and it has becomes the global
concern.
Across European Union, health inequalities are improved to some extent. The gaps
in income and wealth is reduced to the greatest extent after globalisation but still it
is not yet eliminated from the globe.

P.1 Current public health issues of United
Kingdom.
 Public health is the scientific
discipline of preventing as
well as improving the health
of people and there societies.
 This work is accomplished
by promoting healthy
lifestyles, investigating
disease and prevention of
injury as well as detecting,
preventing and responding
to infectious disease.

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Obesity: Excessive weight on body is
called as obesity. It is an infectious
disease, it is a condition in which
excessive accumulation of fat on the
body.
 This disease is putting strain on NHS
because every year the admission of
people is rising by 18 percent and it has
become growing concern.
 There are 63 percent's of adults in
England and quarter of children between
3 to 10 years who are suffering from
obesity.

Accidents:
It is the unfortunate incidents which happens
unexpectedly and unintentionally that results in injury or
damage.
Accidents could be any, like disasteral, workplace,
transportation, etc. In 2017, there were 1793 reported
accidents on road.
It has also becomes the greatest concern of UK as the
serious injuries and number of death are continuously
increasing.
There are many reason why the number of accidents are
continuously increasing such as driving very fats, not
following traffic rules, etc.

Smoking:
This is also another factors that contributed the to public
health issues in United Kingdom.
This is one of the biggest cause of illness as well as
death in UK as every year there are 78000 people who
dies from smoking.
It has become the greatest concern because there are 50
another risk which are associated with smoking.

Pollution:
This is another most critical factors which is contributing to
current public issues in United kingdom and it is one of the
biggest concern for health and social care settings especially
air pollution.
Air pollution is critical issues in UK as it leads both short
term and long term effect on public heath.

Substance and Alcohol misuse:
This is also one of the factor which is very critical to the
health of the people.
 Misuse of alcohol means consumption of alcohol that out the
person at high risk for adverse health and social consequences
and misuse of substance includes illicit drugs.

P.2 Explaining how population data is used to highlight health
determinants contributing to current health issues.
 It is true that Public health issues are the biggest concern of
UK because the rates of death from non-communicable as
well as communicable diseases are continuously increasing.
 Here are some statistical data of public health issues in UK
are as follows-

OBESITY

ACCIDENTS