Task 1- P1‚ P2 and M3 Public health is looking at the health of a community and population. It looks at factors affecting the health of community such as: diets‚ age‚ sex‚ working conditions and social class. The World Health Organisation (WHO) monitors the health of the world and promotes the importance of preventing communicable and non-communicable diseases in order to give people healthier lives. There are strategies set in place to help improve public health. The main for that I will be talking
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Modern social and economic situation‚ making powerful and various stressogenny influences‚ population health has a pernicious effect on mental. Every third citizen of Russia in the life faces problems of violation of mental health. The increase in quantity of mental disorders‚ the complete suicides‚ heavy offenses is in the last decade observed. The person — a being not only biological‚ but also social. The child deprived of the social environment‚ can’t become the full-fledged person‚ it doesn’t
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Unit 7 sociological perspectives In this blog I will be explaining the principal sociological perspectives (Marxism‚ Interactionism‚ Functionalism and collectivism). The open view in sociology can cause debates‚ disclosure and sometimes even controversy as we will see in the blog. Sociology is the study of society and the different social structures within it. Social structures examples of large groups that are in society. For example‚ family‚ religion‚ health and social care‚ mass media‚ economic
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Sociological perspectives There are 3 main perspectives: • The Structural/Functional Perspective – Relationship between parts of society‚ i.e. how aspects of society are functional and adaptive. – Macro – all aspects of society contribute to the way society functions as a whole. For example the government pays for school teachers and schools and bin collection etc. and in return citizens pay tax. The country couldn’t run without the citizens paying tax. People who believe in this theory believe
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patterned inequalities in health and illness. Evaluate sources of evidence with regards to class‚ gender‚ ethnicity and age There are many different reasons why health inequalities exist due to many factors one extremely important one is social class. Socio-economic inequalities have been researched in the UK for many years. In the early 20th century the government started an occupational census which gave the researchers the opportunity to examine health outcomes of social class. The five class scheme
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M1: assess the biomedical and socio-medical models of health: Biomedical: The biomedical model of medicine has been around since the mid-nineteenth century as the predominant model used by physicians in diagnosing diseases. It has four core elements. According to the biomedical model‚ health constitutes the freedom from disease‚ pain‚ or defect‚ therefore making the normal human condition "healthy". The model ’s focus on the physical processes‚ such as the pathology‚ the biochemistry and the physiology
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Journal of Health and Social Behavior http://hsb.sagepub.com/ The Social Construction of Illness : Key Insights and Policy Implications Peter Conrad and Kristin K. Barker Journal of Health and Social Behavior 2010 51: S67 DOI: 10.1177/0022146510383495 The online version of this article can be found at: http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/51/1_suppl/S67 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com On behalf of: American Sociological Association Additional services and information for Journal
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paper illustrates how a public health practitioner when presented with a problem‚ issue‚ or situation in the community can use a quantitative‚ qualitative‚ or mixed methods approach strategy of inquiry to investigate not only possible solutions‚ but to explore direction to determine a specific treatment or intervention and influence an outcome. Three abbreviated research plans are proposed in this paper as possible solutions to the growing concern in the U.S. on health disparities targeting a community
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discusses how social factors have an influence in the fads and trends of consumer purchasing. These social trends like eating more healthy and driving more eco-friendly cars contribute to consumer buying patterns. Marketers try to utilize this data in order to hook consumers toward a certain product based on personal wants‚ needs‚ and / or fears. A social factor within today’s society is that of body image and as a result it has become trendier to change ones eating habits toward that of health &
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unit 7 1.1 person-centred care values must influence all aspects of health and social care work. Health and social care should be based on person-centred values‚ and should be individualised as this is a law requirement (Human Rights Act 1998‚ Health and Social care Act 2012‚ Codes of practice for Social Care Workers‚ etc). If person-centre values that underpin all work in the health and social care sector are followed as they should be then all individuals should feel that and health and social
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