Public Health

P1. Describe key aspects of public health in the UK. To pass this criteria I have to describe the key aspects of public health in a borough within the UK, The key aspects to public health that I am going to describe are; monitoring health status of the community, identifying the public health needs, understanding the origins and development of public health systems, developing programs to reduce the risks to public health, the environmental conditions such as housing- unemployment- education- living and working condition, policies and procedures which promotes public health, improving the health of the population and improve services within the public health sector. The borough of Croydon has a large increase of teenage pregnancy. Monitoring the health status of community, the borough will be monitored to be made aware of the increase in teenage pregnancy. There are a number of different ways to monitor a community such as a leaflet and health promotions, this will help the monitoring process to ensure that the strategies that are put in place are being effective, the main reasons why the health status will be monitored to ensure that the community can be made aware of the potential problems and health risks. Indentify the health needs of the populations, at this point the government would be able to analyse whether or not the programs are proven to be effective. If they are not showing drastic changes in the borough of Croydon they should seek out alternatives such as; offering birth control, distribution of free condoms and promoting safe sex. The development of programmes this is where the government will try and reduce the level of teenage pregnancy throughout the borough of Croydon. They would also highlight and target the main people at risk such as running workshops in schools and colleges. Controlling communicable disease is where the government would try and reduce the risks of teenage pregnancy by again running workshops and offer