Analysis of Public Health's Role in Health and Social Care Report

This report delves into the critical role of public health within the health and social care sectors. It begins by defining public health and its importance in protecting communities through policy, education, and research. The report examines the functions of key health agencies, including the World Health Organization (WHO), National Health Service (NHS), and General Medical Care (GMC), and their roles in disease prevention and health promotion. It then explores epidemiology, focusing on infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and non-infectious diseases like obesity, presenting data and statistics. The report further analyzes various strategies and approaches, such as immunization, surveillance, screening, and education programs, used to control the incidence of diseases. It differentiates between primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention methods, and the importance of research and data analysis in formulating effective health care services. Finally, it discusses the impact of lifestyle factors, including obesity and sexual health issues, on public health in the United Kingdom, highlighting the need for comprehensive health care services and preventive measures.

The Role of Public Health in
Health and Social Care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1 ..........................................................................................................................................3
1.2 ..........................................................................................................................................4
1.3 ..........................................................................................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
2.1 ..........................................................................................................................................7
2.2 ..........................................................................................................................................7
2.3 ..........................................................................................................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
3.1 ..........................................................................................................................................9
3.2 ..........................................................................................................................................9
3.3 ........................................................................................................................................10
3.4 ........................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Public health is referred as science in order to protect safety as well as improve health of
communities with help of policy making, education and research for prevention of injury and
disease. It protects and promotes health and communities of group which focus on playing,
living, learning and working which includes application of various disciplines like engineering,
medicine, public policy, biology and so on (WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF PUBLIC HEALTH,
2019). This analyse health of population and threats which is faced by individuals. It is very
essential for people to keep themselves fit and healthy so that they can work and achieve goal
and objectives of life. The main aim of report is to analyse different plan of action and
approaches which are in use for measuring, controlling and monitoring frequency of difficulty
and diseases in society or group of people. It will also investigate applications of disease and
illness in communicate for condition of wellness as well as societal precaution services. There
are various component that determinant well-being and health of single person in well-being as
well as social care settings.
TASK 1
1.1
There are several government as well as national agency which are working for wellness
and social group care in order to determine grounds for spreading of various kinds of diseases
(Ambrose-Miller and Ashcroft, 2016). These agencies helps community and people of society to
prevent them from harmful diseases. It will also assist in enhancement of well-being of society
and improve country productive as well as strong. There are mainly three types of agencies that
provide wellbeing precaution services such as: World Health Organisation (WHO), National
Health Service and General Medical Care. These all focus on providing health care service and
treatment for disease in communities. They are explained below:
World Health Organisation (WHO)- It provide services to citizens of people at global
and country basis. They mainly focus on providing health care facilities to those organisations
which are at initial level or not performing well. During the time of natural disasters and
calamities, they are more active to provide services and treatment to people.
National Health Service (NHS)- It is regarded as biggest as well as single player in
welfare and social group care services which provide treatment at domestic level. This provide

free services to the people of country in effective and efficient manner. This agency is called
persevering led organization which supply various types of services to all the people and
decision is taken after research them. NHS also collaborates and coordinate with WHO for
identifying various level of health and diseases.
General Medical Care (GMC)- It is the agency that focus on providing welfare and
social group care at local level (Beard and Bloom, 2015). This worked for security of
persevering people through rising checkup practices and education in United Kingdom. It set
standards for all doctors along with providing training and development to medical students and
doctors. They assist in determination of wellness and illness through conducting surveys and
making standards in order to lower down current diseases.
1.2
In current scenario, there are various diseases which are impact people of society and due
to that they have to consult with doctors for improving their physical and mental health (Atun
and et. al., 2015). With such diseases, some people are infectious whereas some are not
infectious. It is important for doctors and professionals for identification of root cause of disease
that are affecting people so that better treatment could be provided from initial stage.
Epidemiology is referred as method in which there is study of distribution and
determinants of events related with health along with application of study and controlling of
various diseases and health problems (Epidemiology, 2019). This will assist in formulation of
policies and making disease for specified disease that are faced by the society of people.
Epidemiology is done for both diseases such as: infections and non infections.
Here, infections diseases is AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) that is
transferred through HIV (Human Immune Deficiency Virus) germs. There are various ways of
transmission of such disease like sharing injection, having sex, bitten by HIV patient, mother to
child during breastfeeding or pregnancy. The data shows people who are suffered from HIV
AIDS in United Kingdom.

Illustration 1: HIV AND AIDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
(Source: HIV AND AIDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK), 2019)
Illustration 2: HIV AND AIDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
(Source: HIV AND AIDS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK), 2019)
The different types of non infections diseases are Obesity, Heart disease, strokes and
others (Braveman and Gottlieb, 2014). Obesity is called health issues that make body of person
to be fat than normal extent which leads them to face number of disease like laziness,
weaknesses, diabetes and many more. For avoiding such situations, person has to adopt measures
such as exercise, balance diet, mediation, yoga and so on. The obesity ratio of people of United
Kingdom are as follows:

Illustration 3: Overweight and Obesity Statistics
(Source: Overweight and Obesity Statistics, 2019)
1.3
There are different number of conceptualization and plan of action for welfare and
societal care for controlling incidence of disease in communities (Brownson, Colditz and
Proctor, 2018). With such strategies and approaches, both medical professional and person get
rid off infections and non infections diseases at community and society. The functions of those
are to identify symptoms and perform practices of medical for reducing it in effective and
efficient manner. The important measures that are adopted by General Medical Service (GMC)
are described below:
Immunisation- This is defined as immune system that works for protective antibodies
against infectious diseases in order to save and protect human body (Buffel, Missinne and
Bracke, 2017). They provides different vaccinations that help people to cure from diseases and
improve their body and health.
Surveillance- It is defined as those measure where there is analysis and observation of
various aspects of environment that can cause health issues in future time period. This is the type
of techniques that is used by health organisation for knowing about main cause of diseases and
provide remedy for improvement in proper manner.
Screening- According to this measure, it is the strategy which is used for controlling of
health issues of people in proper manner (Glanz, Rimer and Viswanath, 2015). In this measure,

there should be regular check up of patient in order to determine problems so that medical testing
is performed before causing of that disease or any issues.
Education and social welfare programs- In this method, various health care agencies
perform surveys, workshops, campaigns for educating people of society and community related
to wellness as well as social care. It aid in creating awareness among people regarding disease
and providing education to cure by themselves in appropriate manner.
TASK 2
2.1
There are various kinds of diseases having their own symptoms and treatment which is
different from one another. It is important for medical professionals to identify diseases so that
proper treatment can be provided. The different conceptualization to activity of services for
group with unwellness or sickness are mentioned here:
Primary Prevention- It is defined as foremost measures which has used in order to
forbid people suffering from diseases by providing education to them related with disease,
symptoms, causes and treatments (Hatzenbuehler, Phelan and Link, 2013). The respective
country has made attempt in order to prevent HIV diseases. The prevention programs related
with HIV are CHAPS and NAHIP where they provide sex education to society and community.
Secondary Prevention- This is called detection and screening of pathogens which is
related with specified diseases. The agencies which are related to National Health Service should
develop program where pregnant women get their blood for testing for identification of issues
related with health. This practices helps in saving offspring from HIV diseases. This type of
process is conducted for treatment of 72 hours at United Kingdom and named as Post Exposure
Prophylaxis (PEP).
Tertiary Prevention- It is called last stage of prevention in which care is taken for those
illness people who are going through chronic diseases. For treatment of such disease, palliative
care is provided to patients and family in terms of emotional and medical care. This does not
provide remedy but focus on relief from illness. It provides care for cancer and HIV.
2.2
The person should be provided with proper health care services and facilities so that they
can cure from suffered diseases under health and social care (Koh and et. al., 2013). For reducing

or provide proper treatment, it is essential for wellness attention agencies to perform decent
research work to get appropriate data, information, statistics for prevention of diseases. For HIV
AIDS and obesity, it is significant to do research and analysis and make plan accordingly.
With the identification of statistical data and information, medical professional has to
prepare themselves as per requirement. It assist them in development of programmes in respect
of HIV AIDS and obesity. It also assist in knowing exact ratio of people who are suffering from
specified diseases and help hospital and agencies in making plans and policies accordingly. They
have to formulate strategies and plan in order to educate people, provide knowledge of sex
education, create awareness for significant of condom, prevention and so on. For obesity, they
have to provide education and ways of removing obesity in order to flourishing and happy living.
Therefore, it is essential for health care services to maintain effective relationship among
generality of illness and necessitate of work in order to assist patients under upbeat and
interpersonal attention provision.
2.3
With change in lifestyle of individual, there is impact on health of person which creates
various problems and issues. The large number of people are suffered from HIV AIDS and
obesity at United Kingdom because of lifestyle that are given:
Obesity
It is the situation where individual get extra quantity of fat in body (McPake and et. al.,
2013). This leads in suffering from different health issues and disease like weaknesses in bone,
depression, laziness and others. This happened because of various reasons such as:
No Physical Exercise- The lack of physical exercise leads to increase fat in body that
develop obesity. Also, large number of people are doing sitting jobs that does not provide time to
them for doing exercise.
Improper Diet Schedule- This means to eat unhealthy that contain more sugar and fast
food items. It leads in creating obesity as it increase body fat and calories.
Some of the reasons that create health issues in United Kingdom are:
Sexual Health Issue- In this situation, diseases are developed like Gonorrhoea, HIV
AIDS and so on (Parkes and et. al., 2014). UK is facing with Chlamydia diseases at global level.

Smoking- In United Kingdom, age group between 18-24 consume more smoking on
average of total people. This leads them to face various health issues and disease in future time
period like ill, fever, breathing and so on.
TASK 3
3.1
There are various component that impact health of human beings like physical,
sociological, environmental and economical factors. They are described below:
Physical Factors- Under the context of health as well as social care, different types of
physical factors that directly and indirectly impact health of human beings in terms of genetic
disorder, improper immune system, malfunctioning of body, hormonal imbalance (Riekert,
Ockene and Pbert, 2013). This will create different types of health problems like stress, high
cholesterol, depression, high blood pressures and many more. Physical factor happens because of
lack of proper diet, less workout, inability to take physical activities, taking tension etc.
Psychological Factors- It is defined as those factors that considers psychology,
behaviour, perception, culture of people who is involved in betterment and illness of health.
Here, stress is psychological factor whereas smoking, consuming alcohol, unsafe sex are
included in behavioural factors that impact on health of person.
Environmental Factors- This is referred as health problem which occurred because of
environmental impurity like open garbage, impure water, unhealthy surrounding and so on. With
such impurities leads in increasing health issues in terms of cough, breathing issues, problems in
functioning of lungs, asthma.
These are the factors which are priorities of wellness as well as well-being for respective
people in health or social care setting. It is important to consider all these to remain healthy and
free form disease or issues.
3.2
There are various plan of action, method and argumentation that are included in health as
well as social care for providing high quality services to users in order to help them to cure
properly and live happy and healthy life. With these application, all health and social care
agencies will focus on providing high quality services and standards to people with help of
doctors and specialist required for curing patients in proper manner. It will also helps in taking

personal information of staff, employees and patient required for providing wellness as well
social group care. In order to provide treatment, various scheme, instrumentation and plan of
action have created for health and social care which are described here:
Data Protection Act- This act was formulated in 1998 by government of United
Kingdom (Sallis and et. al., 2012). This act was adopted in order to safeguard data and
information of employees and patients to make them safe from illegal or inappropriate act. The
medical data of patients has to keep safely without disclosing to anyone.
Quality Service Provision- Under this provision, health care provider has to check
service quality which they provide to their patients. They consider in taking feedback from
patients about services they have provided to patients. Also it can be checked through
effectiveness of treatment and safety of patients.
Complaints Procedure- The welfare as well as group health care services provided by
United Kingdom give options to patients to file complaints against them if they are unsatisfied
and suffered from any issues or diseases. They hear their voice and provide them with effective
treatments.
Social Care Services and Information- This is defined as activities which are given by
social care service system for treating their patients in efficient and efficient way (Viner and et.
al., 2012). This can be done through taking various measures in terms of providing financial
support, highly equipments, services at home and so on.
Therefore, the above mentioned plan of action, group and argumentation in upbeat and
social group attention assist in conducting each and every activities in an effectual manner so
that better treatment can be provided to patients.
3.3
In order to improve health and well being of individuals in a health and social care setting
various measures or factors has to be considered. They are described below:
Physical Factors- The physical factors develop health problems in terms of high level of
blood pressure, cholesterol and many more. This considered stress that happened because of high
pressure of work and considered behaviour of individuals which identify habit of eating. The
unsuitable habit of eating leads to rise in level of sugar, cholesterol, carbohydrate and so on.
Therefore, in such situations, it is health care agencies responsibility for promoting effectiveness
of health care measures and provide proper treatment to patients.

Social Economic Factors- This factors arise because of poverty that affect health of well
being (Viruell-Fuentes, Miranda and Abdulrahim, 2012). If an individual lack money then they
cannot afford to eat, drink and survive healthy life which leads to creates various health issues
like heart attack, lack of nutrition, malnutrition, deficiency of diseases. For overcoming of such
issues and problems, it is society as well as government responsibility for taking corrective
measures so that they can remove poverty.
Therefore, the above factors has to be improved, developed and maintained in order to
provide proper health care and society well being in context of health and social care.
3.4
The number of activities that has been implemented to encourage behaviour change for
maximizing health for individuals in an health and social care setting so that they can happy life
(Sallis and et. al., 2012). Such activities assist in development of proper condition for people so
that they can encourage to get proper health and being person. For improving health condition of
people, there are different health and social care agencies that arrange education programmes for
people to make them aware about symptoms of different diseases. They also focus on providing
various information to individual which prevent them from suffering of diseases and health
issues. In order to maintain environment, both government and society has responsibility to make
their surrounding clean so that less bacteria develops which is impacting health issues.
CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report, it has been concluded that health and social care
measures can prevent society and community to free from various injuries, diseases and
allergies. The different agencies such as world health care, general medical care and so on which
assist in finding disease related with Epidemiology that considers both infectious (microbe) and
non-infectious diseases that is Obesity. Moreover, health and social care has various measure and
approaches that are adopted in order to prevent and control disease with help of surveillance,
immunisation, screening, prevention, social care and so on. There are three kinds of preventions
such as primary, secondary and tertiary preventions. All these preventions has their own roles
and responsibility in order to treat patients. With adoption of health and social care measures,
individual has to maintain their social, mental and physical health. There are different factors

which helps in improving health of people in effective and efficient manner. Therefore,
government as well as society formulate different acts to provide treatment in effectual manner.