People living with HIV in the UK can now expect to live into old age if diagnosed promptly Internationally there is a Joint United Nations Programme named the HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 90:90:90 targets. The aim is for 90% of people living with HIV to be diagnosed, 90% of those diagnosed to be receiving HIV treatment and 90% of those receiving treatment to have a suppressed viral load, by 2020. In the UK in 2015, 87% of the estimated number of people living with HIV were diagnosed. Of those diagnosed, 96% were receiving HIV treatment and of those receiving treatment, 94% had a suppressed viral load. The UK is therefore currently falling one of the three targets which for a country with a wealthy and well developed health care system is inadequate. …show more content…
Furthermore, a broader approach should tackle factors relating to the social and economic context of unhealthy behaviours, particularly those in poverty. Low income individuals are at greater risk of having poor health. Activities that target socioeconomic determinants of health could have a positive effect on overall population health. For instance, low-income neighbourhoods lack proper recreational facilities, and grocery stories lack fresh produce.
How we want to live and what is valued
Ultimately, health promotion efforts and activities reflect societal choices on how to live and what is valued; and these choices have long run implications.
"There is an ongoing debate about the appropriate objectives of healthcare expenditure, and whether the overall goal is to maximise health or to maximise some other concept of wellbeing and social welfare. This is particularly important in considering prevention, as the range of potential benefits extends beyond outcomes. As good health is an important precondition for other aspects of human well-being, health promotion and the prevention of disease is a significant consideration for any social goals concerning equality of opportunity."
There are wider societal benefits to prevention for
1. Healthy People 2020: Have a vision of a society that all people live long, healthy lives by using a 10 year plan. Through their mission they identify
The concept of health promotion has emerged with the increasing realisation in society that our health is one of our most valuable personal assets, as well as an asset for society (Crafter, 1997). The Health Promotion Agency (2008) describes health promotion as a process enabling people to
On a federal level, attempts to regulate drugs that are today outright illegal began with the Harrison Act of 1914, which aimed to prevent physicians from prescribing addictive drugs and, raised the maximum sentence for drug violations from two years to five, beginning a trend towards increasingly punitive drug policies
Health Promotion This is the process of allowing people to have more control over their health as this will help improve their health and well-being. It focuses on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and interventions. Health promotion is how health is shown for example to challenge obesity change 4 life is used so people can have a guidance on how to make their lifestyle healthier. It also shows that health promotion is aimed at individuals whose health is at risk from any diseases from lifestyle factors, which lets individuals take control over their health. By being able to have control over their health it shows individuals what may have happened if nothing was done of it
affects people with limited resources. Perhaps this is because, low income earners are more likely to indulge in unhealthy damaging behaviours such as eating unhealthy food and lack of physical activity (Hubley 2013). If this were the case, Molly might not able buy healthy food or accesses those activities that address her health needs such as the gym and other social networks in her community. All these factors might hinder positive health outcomes.
Having a low income can lead to poor to health, because you won’t have access or opportunities for better health, such as safe homes, nutritious foods and good schools. “Income may not be the strongest risk factor for any particular disease or outcome, but it’s a risk factor for all of them.” (Krisberg, 2017)
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), “health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to attain his or her full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances” (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2015). Satcher (2010) reports that health inequities are “systematic, avoidable, and unjust” disparities (p. 6). He also states that the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded that social conditions are the most important determinant of a person’s health. Social conditions “determine access to health services and influence lifestyle choices” (Satcher, 2010, p. 6). These determinants must be addressed in order to reduce health inequity. Inequity can be
This essay will discuss ways in which a person’s socioeconomic class and his/her social situation can have an impact on his/her health, using examples. We believe that there is a direct link between socioeconomic/social class and health (Adler et al. 1994). I will be defining the key terms: socioeconomic and health, social class then proceed to discuss about how poverty, income, employability, environment and housing can impact on a person’s social situation and their health.
From an economic perspective, there is an increased recognition of the benefits of society from the promotion of health and the prevention of disease, disability, and premature death. In addition, financing health care has been focused on medicine and some progress has been made towards health promotion and disease prevention; however, the progress in this direction is very slow due to social and institutional beliefs and values.
The impacts of health promotion are healthy population and healthy environments. People need to commit themselves in strengthening their learning skills and to change their necessary life styles in order to improve their health.
Plato’s Republic primarily discusses the relationship between the nature of a just individual and the just city, and how their three distinct components should be balanced with respect to each other. In The Republic, people are sorted into classes (producers, auxiliaries, guardians) according to which part of their soul motivates or rules them. The appetitive part is described as money-loving and gain-loving, and its principal concerns are the pleasures of food, drink, and sex (439d). The spirited part is honor-loving and focuses on the pleasures of competition, with doing what is noble and avoiding what is base. The reasoning part is wisdom-loving and is “entirely directed at every moment towards knowing the truth of things” (581b). Plato puts forth the notion that within just individual and the just city, these three parts should be balanced with respect to each other such that the rational and reasoning part of ultimately prevails and rules, while the spirited part supports and maintains this order, and the appetitive part obediently submits. Since the goal of Platonic education is to produce philosophers, this necessitates the need to know how best to bring people whose primary desires may be for food or drink, or for good reputation, to the state where their primary desires are for wisdom and truth. In particular, Plato argues that such an education should be focused on properly orienting a person such that they ultimately strive to look for and seek out the original
For example a person living in a deprived council estate, with a very low income has been proven to be more at risk of developing health issues compared to someone from a higher social class as there is a strong correlation between poverty and ill health. This has been backed up by (WHO, 1946) that state that ‘poverty creates ill-health because it forces people to live in environments that make them sick.’
Inequities in a range of factors – stable job, good income and affordable housing, access to a good, affordable health insurance and a quality education are all influence on a person chance to live their life longer and healthy. All of these inequities are hard to fulfill by a single poor human being, - they couldn’t afford to buy a healthy food and a place to be physically well-active, thus, it contribute the higher rates of AIDS & obesity in the minorities and poor community.
The main purpose of health promotion is to heighten people’s motivation to strive for optimal health, while assisting them in making lifestyle modifications that will help them advance their wellbeing to an ideal state. Modifications of the unfavorable way of living can be enabled through a
When I was exiting Yellowstone National Park, the park ranger at the post asked me what I was doing in Jackson Hole. I explained to him that I was there for the Annual Domestic Violence Conference and he said to me “We have that problem here?” I told him, “That problem is everywhere and actually one in three women will face abuse in one way or another in their lifetime.” I had just learned all of this information from attending this event. I started my role as a Victim Advocate only four days previous to this day. I was not aware of the complete picture of domestic violence but I could relate this phenomena in being part of this statistic. Many people ask me different questions, yet they all are the same, “Does that really happen