Question 1. Can you think of some diseases that are of public health importance? There are many public health concerns, including but not limited to tuberculosis, heart disease, HIV, cancer, and diabetes. Perhaps some mental health disorders could be included, since they are a big problem in today’s society such as anxiety, depression and bipolar disorder.…
• It is inherently inefficient with the dispersal of service users and increased travel time for care staff. • There are also qualitative issues around lack of investment in and development of care staff, local knowledge of services available etc. • Any future strategy will need to address the overhead and profit element of expenditure as opposed to the wage element (which will be affected by the Living Wage commitment and also the payment for travel time), although there will be some opportunities for productivity improvement. • Productivity improvements can be addressed through a more geographical organisation of care staff/ providers and through the implementation of some form of call monitoring software i.e. CM2000 electronic monitoring or migration to alternative services such as PAs.…
Economic With Dylan is in a wheel chair it means he is unable to find a job and means that he would be having benefits so he can afford his supported living and so he can get other needed things like personalizing his home so he can move around his home like a chair lifts or ramps. He would also need the council to pay partly towards his supported care, because he is unemployed and because of his physical and learning disability It will make it very difficult for him to be able to get a job. The council have also had to lower down the curve so he can cross his road and made it that the steps up to his home was replaced with a ramp so he can move around his home freely without needing assistance. With the supported living he would personalize when he is visited so he can be assisted whilst shopping. Environmental With Dylan in a wheel chair it means he may not be able to access some areas inside the community or may need help to go to them with carers.…
There are many factors that come into play when dealing with medical issues but a major key reason is the government. The books The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation by Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames and The Nazi Doctors by Robert Jay Lifton can be used to highlight how government effects addressing medical issues. Both books illustrates how the government plays a key role when dealing with medical issues. Starting with understanding how the democratic system works. The democratic society has many freedoms which include freedom of speech.…
Topic: The Key Social Issues that Influence Health Care, (Vulnerable Adults). The health care of a person or community is determined by their social and economic situations, the physical environment, as well as individual lifestyle and conduct. These are some elements that can influence health care. Connections such as family, friends, neighbours, wealth, surroundings and level of education all have an amount of impact on the individual’s health.…
Barriers to participation refers to anything that prevents the pupil from fully participating in activities offered by the setting or service. Physical barriers: Lack of access, perhaps in the form of ramps or doorframes that are not wide enough for wheelchairs, any disabled toilets or lifts where necessary, lack of equipment or resources such as hearing loops, information in braille. Language can be a barrier, if understanding or support for a child who’s first language is not English is not available this will hold them back. Amendments made to the Disability Discrimination Act 2001 required all schools built from 2001 to have physical access for all pupils.…
Universal Entitlement is a founding principle that has been achieved. Universal Entitlement is where everyone who lives within Britain has a right to use the NHS. They should have the ability to use all services without any restrictions and without any difficulty. However, homeless people and immigrants, do struggle with finding a GP and often have restricted access to health care. There is an issue with dentists, because some adults attempt to find dentists that will treat them on behalf of the NHS and some dentists will not it means they have to pay for some services which some cannot afford.…
Supernatural folktales are very popular in this culture. Sihuanaba is the legend of a beautiful woman who had affairs with other men. When her husband discovered it, he put a curse on her. At first sight men will see Sihuanaba attracted, but afterwards she would horrible. Fiesta de la Rosa is a traditional celebration; in which Salvadoran celebrate the fifteen birthday of a young girl.…
Economic conditions, including food and lifestyle, have a direct impact on access to healthcare, life expectancy, chronic illnesses, and overall health (Carmignani, Shankar, Tan, & Tang, 2014). Education and social impacts also has an impact on individuals having better knowledge of health information and health-related decisions (Carmignani et al., 2014). Healthcare organizations and providers should be aware of the dynamics of the populations that they serve with the purpose of developing services that will best serve their community and to provide amenities that impact the health of the population the…
Social determinants have a huge impact on the health care clients receive. Healthy people 2020 has developed 5 key areas of social determinants these include economic stability, education, social and community, health and health care, and neighborhood (“Social determinants of health,” 2015). Clients who live in this retirement community have access to health care and social needs. The clients I have compared have access to health care because of where they live.…
The second threat is the high number of patients with low socioeconomic status that may have a difficult time gaining access to the clinic due to lack of transportation. Threats or Weaknesses also Pose…
Some of the current trends will have an impact on the delivery of healthcare in the case study. Below, I have created a table that will show the trends and the impact on the delivery of healthcare in the case study. Some of the trends will benefit the delivery of healthcare in the case study whereas others will decrease profit as well as decrease the quality of the delivery of healthcare. When a trend promotes injustice to patients, the quality of healthcare is greatly impacted and decreases in quality simply because of the inability to pay. This creates a ripple effect of the cost of healthcare going up so that private payers and insurance pays for those that were unable to pay.…
Health and social care settings could be influence by many factors on their way to achieve high quality practice. Those factors could have positive or negative impact on quality depend on the way health and social organizations react to the influences (Spicker, P. 2009). Health and social industry constantly experience ongoing changes in order to meet services user’s changeable needs. There are different types of changes such as social, technological, and economical, therefore requires different approaches to adapt to those changes (NHS Connecting for Health 2000).…
The role of social determinants in Australia The role a focused approach on social determinants would have on improving health care provided is would be to decrease unnecessary mortality, suffering and to enable all people to have access to care this is even a factor in Australia. Although Australia has in the past had a high level of health care available to all populations rises, increases in the cost of living and even a competition to retain doctors in rural Australia have all taken a toll. Social determinants are based on the economy and social conditions of an area, it can be impacted by many factors. The level of health care and access to treatment even in first world countries is greatly determined by social status, location and the…
These factors have more of an impact on the health of a person than the common belief of, access to health care. This paper…