Health And Illness: Population Trends

Measuring health- Health and illness is measured by statistical trends. There are three main causes to this. Firstly is the government statistics. It is when the Office of National Statistics takes responsibility for the recent information’s about the health and care issues around the world. The periodicals involves the Social Trends, Population Trends and more trends that is involved with health and illness. All of the periodicals also takes responsibility for the birth, death, infant mortality and suicide rates. In hospitals and GP’s, appointments are investigated by individual’s social classes’ gender and age. Secondly is the charitable organisation and pressure groups. Most of the times the charitable groups and the special interest groups …show more content…
However, some statistics are collected from certified sources because some may not present the right information on health and illnesses. For example, an individual could be really ill and does not want to go and see the doctor, or a person goes and sees the doctor but is not actually as ill as the people who are actually more ill. In this case the doctors might give the same advice but imply different analysis. So if an individual when to one doctor and described their illness with no interest and no energy in life, and that one doctor would say that they are depressed, however if they went to a different doctor and explained the same situation, tat doctor might say that they have fatigue syndrome. Ken Browne have explain these types of problems in a useful way. He said ‘if you want to consider someone as ‘sick’ then there are at least four stages to show this’. Which are: 1- people should realise that they are having problems, 2- they must have a serious reason to go and see the doctor, 3- when they actually think that they are having problems, then they should go and see a doctor and 4- the doctor needs to believe that the individual is having problems, and then needs to decide on to have a …show more content…
Individuals that are in higher social classes have a better health and life than the lower class people. This is because, high class people are much more influenced. The Black Report gives information and expiations regarding the factors of health and illness. There are four sociological expectations regarding this, which are: the statistical artefact explanation, natural or social selection, cultural or behavioural explanations and material or structural explanations. The statistical artefact explanation is that there are many differences that could be defined by statistics that have produced to make up a picture. The Black Report have disagreed and had an argument that, individuals that are in lower social classes have a high range of older people that are working in dangerous environment, so it is more likely for them to catch an illness. This implies that, it doesn’t really depend on what social class you’re from, it the age structure and pattern shows the difference in people that are in lower social classes. The Natural or social selection suggest that it’s not about people that are in lower social classes or about them having low wages, they think that illness comes from the places and houses they live in. They believe that individuals that have poor illness is because of that. However the explanation that they have suggestion