Global Health and Sustainability: Poverty and Healthcare Access

This report examines the critical issues of global health, with a specific focus on poverty and its impact on access to healthcare, particularly within the context of the United Kingdom. It begins by defining global health and emphasizing the importance of understanding its complexities. The report identifies poverty as a major global challenge, highlighting the lack of government focus and its consequences on healthcare access. It delves into the background of poverty in the UK, exploring factors such as wage inequality, high renting costs, debt repayment, and unemployment. The current status of poverty in the UK is analyzed, including statistics on homelessness and the government's efforts to address these issues through various initiatives, such as job center reforms and investment in affordable housing. Key considerations, including unemployment rates and individuals living under lower income, are presented through visual aids. The report concludes with an overview of potential options and recommendations for addressing poverty and improving healthcare access, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive and sustained approach. The report is contributed by a student to Desklib, a platform for study resources.

Global Health and Sustainability

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Briefing Paper..................................................................................................................................1
Issues...........................................................................................................................................1
Background.................................................................................................................................2
Current status..............................................................................................................................3
Key considerations......................................................................................................................5
Options........................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Global health is define as health of population at biggest level. At globalised level,
chances of delivering better and effective health care services is more appropriate because many
voluntary and health care association already working over at (Belz and Peattie, 2012). Hence, it
is really essential to understand about concept of global health and sustainability properly so that
determined outcome could be gain. In this report, a theme got selected which was poverty and
access to healthcare and on the basis of that selected are of interest will stated as lack of
government focus on poverty which create insufficiency in providing better healthcare services.
This project will used to present a briefing paper to government so that determination of poverty
at such level get evaluated with related factors. Along with this, another major issue which used
to included in this project covers poverty affect health care. Moreover, another topic will related
with homeless individual in developed countries. Such kind of consideration get discuss with
various graphs and charts better.
Briefing Paper
Issues
Poverty is define as major issue in all over the world which need to understand properly
by government so that they could facilitate effective and better options to draw beneficial
attribute in nature (Charron, 2012). This attribute impacted ability to access health care services
as well. The major issue which going to discuss through this project arise due to lack of focus by
government on condition of regions as well as they also not made their focus properly on
delivering better health care services. Although, poverty impacted the health care unit most
because lack of resources get underpin as well as a major reason behind spreading of poverty
would be more spending on leisure not on better and appropriate well being things of their
regular life. Thus, a major issue which discuss will be poverty with lack government focus with
insufficiency in providing better healthcare services.
This get done through crafting a better briefing paper which really matter for an
individual. This briefing paper reflect poverty and access to healthcare and really matters so that
such kind of condition could be improved in better frame. Thus, government could focus on such
aspects better so that determined outcome could be resource better which assist in improving
poverty and access to healthcare as well.
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Background
Poverty is define as major problem in UK which restrict many individual to gain better
and determined services (Frenk and Moon, 2013). Although, from past few years, UK resident
spend more on their leisure rather than focus on better and determined services in frame. Thus,
with increase in spending on leisure and not focus on their well being through savings, chances
of such poverty arise. Thus, hey already took loans from banks which not getting paid properly.
UK is one of a most richest country in the world but there are certain number of crises arise over
there which define as major reason behind such kind of poverty. Such crises are homeless, debt
and food with healthcare. All these lead to relate with poverty in UK which create a vast
interruption on living of individuals. The reason behind poverty in UK could be define and
termed as:
 Inequality in wages
 High renting cost
 Debt repayment
 Unemployment and long term uneconomic activity
All these are termed and stated as major reason behind poverty in UK which need to
understand better and in appropriate manner. More than 60% individual not getting appropriate
wage as equal to median earning (Frumkin, 2016). This define and arise situation of inequality in
wages among various people and create a situation of poverty as well as such individual not
getting better and definite health care services. Another thing which standardise as major reason
behind poverty in UK is unemployment. Currently more than 65% individual face a crises of
poverty in frame. Although, tax slabs are getting increase day after day which increase number
of cases of debt repayment. 4 out of 10 individuals getting failed in repayment of bank loan
which they took in order to fulfil their desires. This restrict them to perform things better and in
determined frame so that influences of poverty could be controlled.
Health care units determine that poverty made a vast influence on delivering better
services because of spreading in communicable diseases as well as major infectious diseases.
Although, individuals do not have much resource in order to gain proper treatment due to not
having appropriate money. Thus, this lack of health care access situation arise due to not having
sufficient money and vast number of individuals are unemployed in frame. Thus, such aspects
need to understand by government properly so that they could focus on poverty in better and
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effective manner as well as sufficient delivering of services could be done in health care sections.
There is a need of some global health care association to take active participation in order to
reduce health associated problems in define frame of course.
Current status
UK is define and identify as one of a most richest country in the world but from past few
years, poverty prevalent in many parts of UK (Gostin and Sridhar, 2014). The economical and
social state of UK is not so good which enable and restrict them to grow and expand their
operations properly as well. In the year 2015-2016 more than 10 million people were living in
poverty where as three in ten people were at risk of poverty which also includes working families
in the year 2012 to 2015 (There is a Poverty Crisis in the UK and We Need to Talk About It,
2017).
The major kind of poverty which arise in UK stated that such individual not able to pay
rent, and increase chances of homelessness as well. In the UK during 2015, more than 170
tenants evicted every day due to not paying and meeting with obligations. This factor starts and
continue with a course of moment where £200 billion of debt amassed on credits cards, car deals
and other forms of loans. Along with such aspects, homeless individual also tend to rise with
current and recent form of standard. In the vicinity of 2010 and 2016, the quantity of individuals
dozing unpleasant in England expanded by 134%, and the quantity of individuals living in brief
convenience expanded by 60%. Thus poverty become one of a most deep inside social mobility
problem where chances to getting rid out of such context become difficult in nature. In UK, only
one in of 8 children overcome from poverty and likely to become a higher earner adult in frame.
There are more than 14 million people living under the poverty ratio which is very high
in nature and define that many of them are homeless as well as not getting better health care
services in frame (UK Poverty 2017, 2017). This aspect or attribute include about each and every
kind of individual where 8 million belong to working age adults with four million children as
well and associated 1.9 million pensioners. UK government took many steps to control such
poverty from past 20 years but it tend to rise again and again and not used to stop properly as
well. There are mainly working age adults, families and children are consider under the poverty
whom need more and appropriate focus to get overcome. This need better and signified frame of
reference so that poverty could be improved in more determined course of moment so that
poverty get evicted.
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For resolving the UK poverty situation, certain consideration need to include better so
that government could remove poverty in better and signified manner. Solving UK poverty is not
a easy task which need to understand by each and every person properly as well as Tony Blair
commit that ending of poverty get done till 2020. Although, government start focused to reform
and replace the Children Poverty Act with Welfare Reform and Work Act, meaning the target
was scrapped. Following are the certain steps which define and enable in handling current status
of poverty better where government start boosting income with investment of extra £1bn each
year to build 80,000 genuinely affordable homes (Can we solve UK poverty? 2018). Along with
this, government start reforming job centres better where secure working start providing to each
and every individual not just any kind of job. This enable and support in reducing unemployment
rate so that an appropriate standard of living get provided which further enable in reflecting
better access to health.
Institutes also provide educational training to each and ever individual better where target
required to achieve in order to improve literacy is 5 million so that basic get learn as well as
effective working options get done in a define manner of course. Government also provide more
powers to Mayors so that they focused on local development and growth where chances to
enhance number of job opportunities could become possible in frame (Gostin, 2012).
All such factors and things working better and in effective frame which define that
resources required to utilise better. Government focus on all these things better so that they
would work in order to improve current status of poverty so that better healthcare could be
reflected. The social welfare get enhance in order to provide education and job to vast sector
which enable and support in order to turn to access healthcare services properly (Johnston, Fanzo
and Cogill, 2014). This access enable and support in reducing poverty so that determined target
to remove poverty till 2020 become possible. Solving poverty might cost the country initially but
the payback in terms of well-being, life chances and even economic development would be
considerable.
There are vast number of individuals get evaluated at UK whom are homeless and do not
have better place to live. Like 170 tenants become homeless from past few days in UK which
stated case of non payment of debt properly. Thus such individual also need focus so that such
inappropriate consideration could be improved in better frame. As compared with others of UK,
London have more than 300,000 individuals whom are homeless in nature. This data get
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estimated on the basis of shelter survey where one in every 59 people is homeless in London
(One in every 200 people in UK are homeless, according to Shelter, 2018). Investing £950m by
2020 to support these efforts, and bringing in the Homelessness Reduction Act. This requires
councils to provide early support to people at risk of being left without anywhere to go. This
situation arise due to rise in number of families whom do not have appropriate amount of money
to pay off their rent which increase chances of higher lending of eviction and homeless which
might tend to rise around a million in next year years or up to 2020 (Reality Check: How many
people are homeless in England? 2018).
Key considerations
Illustration 1: Causes of Relative Poverty in UK, 2016
(Sources: Causes of Relative Poverty in UK, 2016)
Interpretation: On the basis of this define graph which clarify about the rate of unemployment in
UK stated that till 2014 it comes around 27000 thousands individual become unemployed in
nature. Here more than 60% section of society do not have appropriate jobs in their hands. This
signify that this is a major reason behind poverty in UK which need to assess and understand
better and in supportive manner as well. Thus, chances to derive and gain better and supportive
outcome could become possible when such vast area of group used to take job in hand or gain
appropriate jobs. Government already working in such streamline where Mayors now have more
powers in order to create more job opportunity.
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Illustration 2: Causes of Relative Poverty in UK, 2016
(Sources: Causes of Relative Poverty in UK, 2016)
Interpretation: This graph present about individuals whom lived under lower income group.
Working age adults getting more involved in lower income level which stated and consider under
lower income level. It is really essential take some frequent steps by government so that such
consideration could be improved better (Kohl and et. al., 2012). Along with them, in initial days
pensioners were consider under lower income group but with change in course of time they
already get secure from such stances. But government understand that children are the ultimate
ones whom present suffering from this aspect badly. This need to understand and determine
properly by Government so that such consideration improvise in better and defined frame of
source (Liu and et. al., 2015). Henceforth, children need to get proper and better education which
further facilitate and enable in defining and improving such course. Working age with children
suffer from more expenses rather than similar one in nature of frame due to more members
involvement.
Influences over future poverty:
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Illustration 3: Causes of Relative Poverty in UK, 2016
(Sources: Causes of Relative Poverty in UK, 2016)
Interpretation: One of a major and important consideration on which aspects required to
determine and influence more is educational attainment. Here, it get evaluated that such person
whom completed their education but not take degree from school ave higher influence of job
risk. Thus, they will also take low paid in form which further create situation of poverty in define
area field. Moreover, arriving generation will used to focus more on leisure lifestyle where they
start influence over to drugs and alcohol. This aspect enable and support in defining that in future
poverty become more in tenure because alcohol and drugs have higher influence in nature of
frame.
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Illustration 4: 2017 Rough Sleeping Statistics, 2017
(Sources: 2017 Rough Sleeping Statistics, 2017)
Interpretation: This figure define and signify about the consideration of homeless individuals.
From past few decades, rough sleeping tend to rise more and more in nature as compared with
past 7 years. This ratio tend to rise with each and every course of moment which have to be
better understand so that government could provide them home in order to reflect better suited
outcome. As per the graph, it get evaluated that in 2017, more than 4500 people become
homeless and move towards rough sleeping. This is quite high as compared with previous year
which was 4134. There are many individuals get evaluated and define to become homeless in
nature. This graph take a huge hike from past few years as many individual become homeless
and not getting better health care services. This need to improve better and in determined manner
where chances of derivation required to improve in a define course of frame. Thus, UK
government need to focus on these individuals better and in determined manner so that rough
sleeping could be improved in recent and every course of moment for define frame of time.
Options
There are various number of things get evaluated in terms of poverty so that better health
care services could be provided (Lobelo, Stoutenberg and Hutber, 2014). One of a major option
which could be available for government would be reflected as to provide education to each and
every illiterate individual or child. It is really essential to draw aspect on this frame so that
determined and effective outcome could be drawn. Moreover, with better studies, such children
become properly skilled and get better jobs as well. Hence, this is a one of an option which
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suppose to be opted by government and many institutes as well. This will result in reflecting
better and suitable gain in terms of effective and beneficial outcome.
Another option could be related with preparing homes for such aspects and individual
whom are homeless in nature (Patz and et. al., 2014). From past few years, number of homeless
individuals are more in nature. This need to better understand that from past 7 years, its all about
tripled up number of homeless individuals. Thus, such attribute need to understand in better and
effective frame so that rough sleeping could be reduce in frame. This have to assist and
understand better by such individuals in order to provide home to each and every individuals.
Another option which specified by government could be related with change in
legislation. Laws getting modify with each and every course of moment so that a better
understanding could be bear in order to determine suitable gain in response.
CONCLUSION
It get closed from the task preparation paper that worldwide well-being is a noteworthy
thing for every single person. On the off chance that worldwide individual well-being isn't
suitable in nature at that point odds of increasing negative impacts are high in residency. Along
these lines, for overseeing manageability it is extremely essential to run with worldwide well-
being and supportability idea. This instructions paper have unmistakable topic which got
displayed for nearby or national government with respect to destitution and access to social
insurance. A noteworthy issue which got assessed is neediness with worldwide well-being which
need to enhance by means of government through successful and advantageous strides in outline.
The present status of neediness in UK is high in outline where retired people and working age
grown-ups proportion in such streamline ascend with every last year outline. In spite of the fact
that, with help of different diagrams and graphs things move toward becoming see appropriately
which additionally empower in drawing legitimate strategies by government. Certain number of
proposal will used to assessed which need to consider by government legitimately.
RECOMMENDATION
Poverty requires certain number of recommendation which have to deal out and work on
better so that health care services could be deliver in better and determined manner. This will
result in providing beneficial and effective gain in response:
 There is no "silver slug arrangement" that can destroy neediness. The various issues that
emerge from neediness and the reasons for destitution must be tended to.
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 Potential arrangements set forward incorporate more social lodging, the fortifying of
work rights and a more successful arrangement of welfare.
 At times answers for neediness can be a piece of the issue however. For instance, the
presentation of all inclusive credit has pulled in boundless feedback.
 In addition, at exhibit, the disparity in our general public implies that our framework is
skewed to support the special.
 Better health care services would get provided to each and every poor individual and for
this concern NHS require to cut down their price slab in better frame. Thus, chances for
deriving and providing better services get done when poverty get finish through better job
opportunities.
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