Ethnicity and patterns of Health and Illness Age standardised ’not good’ health rates: by ethnic group and sex‚ April 2001‚ England & Wales Pakistani and Bangladeshi men and women in England and Wales reported the highest rates of ’not good’ health in 2001. Pakistanis had age-standardised rates of ’not good’ health of 13 per cent (men) and 17 per cent (women). The age-standardised rates for Bangladeshis were 14 per cent (men) and 15 per cent (women). These rates‚ which take account of the difference
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essay I am going to talk the patterns and trends of health and ill health among different social groupings. I will talk about each pattern and trend in its own paragraph‚ Social class‚ Gender‚ Ethnicity‚ Age and Geographical location. I will talk about the links between these to health issues. I will back these up through the use of evidence such as statistics. I will then conclude what I have found out. Firstly I will talk about each pattern and trend. Social Class Social class helps to deter the
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the introduction of social policy ideologies emphasis was put on civil and political right especially in countries like South Africa and America where there was wide discriminations on the basis of race and class. In the current contexts Social policy has underwent various transformations in terms of the subject matter‚ internationalization‚ approaches of conceptualisation and cooperation with other disciplines in the world with most countries taking it as a way of tackling social problems. The most
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P3 For my work experience I went to St Georges Residential Home‚ while I was there I witnessed how important and how effective communication can be in terms of a health care setting. In extreme cases it could be a matter of life and death. For example if a senior carer is giving tablets to a service user and they don’t watch them taking them this will affect the service user in terms of health and medical reasons. All these service users need is some company. Environmental factors effecting communication
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P3 Explain specific health psychology issues Eating disorders are characterised by an abnormal attitude towards food that causes an individual to change their eating habits and their behaviour. There are several types of eating disorders that can effect an individual physically‚ psychologically and socially. The two eating disorders which I will be discussing is anorexia and bulimia. Anorexia is an eating disorder and a mental health condition which can be life-threatening. Anorexia is an irrational
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and possibly‚ a real contribution to knowledge. (University of California‚ Berkeley‚ n.d.) Research can help shed light on your target’s – the person or organization that wields power over your problem or question of interest – weaknesses‚ such as patterns of law breaking‚ bad behaviour‚ character flaws‚ or a laissez-faire attitude toward regulatory compliance. You can unearth this sort of information by doing some detective work; checking your target on the internet‚ talking with sources close to
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Explaining patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings. Introduction There are many ways to measure patterns of ill health; these include mortality‚ morbidity‚ health events‚ disease incidence‚ disease prevalence and health surveillance. These are; Morbidity Rates is how many individuals suffer from the disease at a given time. Mortality Rates is how many individuals die from suffering from the disease and health events individuals being aware of health issues such
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Outline and explain the inequalities in health and illness according to social class. This essay will explain the inequalities that occur in health and social care due to social class. It will show statistics of health and mortality rates and distinguish between different approaches to health. It will show factors that can influence an individuals health such as class‚ society and individual choice. Inequalities in health are a long standing and well recognised part of modern society. Within society
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Explain different sociological approaches to health and ill health There are many sociological approaches that explain health and ill health. In this assignment I will be focusing on Marxism‚ feminism‚ interactionaist and functionalism perspectives. The Marxist perspective believe that the bourgeoisie (middle class) exploit the proletariat (working class) as we live in a capitalist system and that if we lived in an communist society that would be our ideal society because there would be equality
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Trends in Consumption Patterns The business world is very susceptible to the subtleties of consumer choices. The ability to anticipate the trends in consumer consumption patterns is vital to any company desiring to be a leader or major factor in their industry. Millions of dollars are spent each year in research and analysis to determine or to create trends in‚ not only who the company’s customers may be‚ now and in the near future‚ but also‚ what will those customers want to buy‚ and why. To
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