Public Health: Lifestyle Choices, Diseases, and Social Care

This report examines the intricate relationship between the prevalence of diseases and the requirements for public health and social care services. It delves into the impact of common diseases like cancer and HIV, highlighting factors such as smoking, alcoholism, and lack of preventative measures. The report emphasizes the crucial role of government services, including HIV/AIDS strategies and minority AIDS initiatives, in improving health outcomes. It also analyzes how current lifestyle choices, such as poor diets, smoking, and alcohol consumption, are significantly impacting the future demand for healthcare and social services. The report concludes by underscoring the importance of public awareness and preventative measures to mitigate the adverse effects of these lifestyle choices on individuals and society, advocating for proactive interventions to address the evolving healthcare needs.

Public Health in Health and
Social Care

TABLE OF CONTENTS
 Introduction
 Relationship between the commonness of diseases and the requirements of services to support the
individuals
 Services provided by government in order to improve the individuals health
 Causes and their impacts
 The impact of present lifestyle choices on needs of the future for social care and health services
 Lifestyle choices impacting societies
 Conclusion
 References

INTRODUCTION
The presentation explores the importance relationship
between the commonness of diseases and the requirements
of services to support the individuals. A variety of views
have been explained in order to explain the requirements of
services for betterment on individuals. Along with it, the
presentation tends to explore the variety of lifestyle changes
adopted by the people that makes the individual suffer from
a number of harmful diseases. The presentation also
provides a number of statistics and facts and figures to
explain the causes.

Relationship between the commonness of diseases and the
requirements of services to support the individuals
Commonness of diseases refers to the factors which are common in a
number of diseases and are the causes of those diseases. Diseases such as
cancer and tuberculosis are widespread and the major reasons behind them is
the Smoking done by individuals. Other diseases include HIV where lack of
precaution taken by the individuals make them suffer from the
disease(Selenius and et.al., 2017).
It is important to support the individuals in order to provide them with the
best possible option become healthy once again. The importance of the
required services to support these individuals include:

SERVICES PROVIDED BY GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO
IMPROVE THE INDIVIDUALS HEALTH
• National HIV/AIDS strategy makes efforts to improve the
health outcomes for those people who are suffering from
the HIV.
• Minority AIDS initiative (MAI) which is established in
1999 also support to reduce the chances of HIV among
people by providing proper equipment's and delivery of
the services in order to treat it.

IMPORTANCE OF REQUIREMENT
OF SERVICES
The provided medications and treatments under the social care service by
the government of a number of countries ensure that the diseases such as
HIV and cancer today have less occurrence. The social care has provided the
governments with better options to tackle the problems related to the health
of their people. Also the services are majorly transforming the cause and
effect of diseases and making them occur less between the individuals.

WHY THEY ARE IMPORTANT
?
It is important to provide necessary facilities to the individuals so that they
can be provided with the better options and nobody gets less attention than
others(Wong and et.al., 2018). Also, the social services can make effective
use of selected experts of HIV and Cancer to train and work in the
partnership with other specialists in order to make them learn about the cure.
These all measures are going to help the government or social care service to
ensure that none of the people are left being untreated and everyone with the
disease is being taken care of.

CAUSES AND THEIR IMPACTS
The causes of diseases such as cancer includes smoking, not
having better diet between the individuals, lack of
awareness about the diseases etc. The causes of AIDS
include lack of precaution between the individuals and not
adopting safety measures etc. The diseases can be
avoided with the help of social care setting and adopting
essential measures to serve the individuals by the
government of the countries across the globe.
• Smoking: Increasing smoking within the individuals and
its impacts are major reasons making the individuals
suffer.

INCREASE IN SMOKING

INCREASE IN ALCOHOLISM
• Alcohol: Alcoholism is another factor making the people
suffer from a variety of diseases and leaving the sick and
unhealthy

The impact of present lifestyle choices on needs
of the future for social care and health services
The present lifestyle choices are very much affecting the needs and demands
of social services in future from the people across the globe.
The present diet of the people are one of the major reasons which in future is
going to demand health care services in large.
It can be seen as the population of western countries are majorly leaning
towards diets that include large meats, fats, oils, and other foods which are
bad for the health.

CONTINUE…
• These diet options are making people obese and suffering from bad
overall health. Along with it, foods which includes additives are other
major causes that are making the people of these countries cause diseases
such as cancer, diabetes, stomach infections etc. If these diets remained
the same it might impact the health of the population on large and will
make them to ask for social care and health services on a large scale.

LIFESTYLE CHOICES CAUSING
OBESITY

LIFESTYLE CHOICES AND
CANCER

CONTINUE…
• Other present lifestyle trends impacting the population are consumption of
alcohol and smoking.
• These trends are making people across the globe causing incurable
diseases. Smoking is one of the major factors of cancer related to lung,
throat, etc.
• Alcoholism is making people suffer from a variety of physical and mental
issues.

CONTINUE…
• These lifestyle choices if continued can cause major harm to the
population and can cause large suffering across humanity. Along with it,
there will be an increase in the demand of healthcare and social services to
deal with these issues related to the health of the people. It is important
the today's generation is aware of these harmful diseases and their causes
to stay away from the lifestyle choices and their related issues(Wood and
et.al., 2017).

POOR LIFESTYLE CHOICES
IMPACTING SOCIETIES
HEALTH

CONCLUSION
From the above presentation it can be concluded that in
what manner the commonness of diseases appear and the
requirements of services are needs to support the
individuals. Also, a number of views have been explained in
order to explain the requirements of services for betterment
on individuals. Along with it, the presentation tends to
explore the variety of lifestyle changes adopted by the
people that makes the individual suffer from a number of
harmful diseases. At last, the presentation showcases in
what manner poor lifestyle choices impacts the individuals.

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