Tension Between Health And Social Care

France’s health facilities also include both private and public delivery of services (El Taguri & Nasef, 2008). However, France’s vision and dental services lie outside the medical coverage system (Brown, 2003). The finances are government regulated, the state is the middle man, and the physicians negotiate with the payers back and forth, which ultimately results with providers earning much less when compared to America (Brown, 2003). This model lies between a full national system which results with intense rationing and America’s competitive system which lacks coverage for everyone (El Taguri & Nasef, 2008).

It is estimated that half of all smokers die from diseases related to the consumption of tobacco and live an average of ten to fifteen years less than non-smokers.

mental health and social care. Politicians face severe pressure from the media, service users and

This essay is aimed to explore, analyse and discuss smoking in adults. Smoking is a public health issue as such is one of the major contributors to high mortality and ill-health in the adults which is preventable (Health and Excellence Care (NICE) (2012). The United Kingdom (UK) is known to have the highest number of people with a history of smoking among people with low socio-economic status (Scriven and Garman, 2006; Goddard and Green, 2005). Smoking is considered a serious epidemic in the UK and the National institute for Health and Excellence Care (NICE, 2012) stated that 28% of adults with low economic status are tobacco smokers compared with 13% of those with economic status or having professional

Smoking is a severe health issue which can results in pain, sickness and depression. Not only does the misuses of tobacco and nicotine have a devastating

Mental health affects many public policy areas, such as a passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA), which aims to increase the drug coverage for seniors. Continued expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) is by increasing the public insurance coverage for children.

Tobacco has existed for long as we have known about history, but due to the negative effects of it to the broader community Tobacco has sparked greater controversy across the globe. Many people argue that it is the government’s responsibility to protect the individual but on the contrary some disagree and believe it’s up to the individual. This essay will elaborate above mentioned aspects and lead to a logical conclusion.

Addressing the cause of health care problems is one of the first steps in addressing the cost cutting issue. Much of what causes health care problems can be linked to dangerous lifestyle choices, dangerous living environments, and poverty. Countries with more successful universal health care systems, such as France, have laws restricting a person’s working hours while simultaneously providing a plethora of social services to ensure that their needs are always met, regardless of their income or social status. In turn, these exceptional social services drive down health care costs. France offers numerous programs to assist the poor, single working women with children, and families. The laws regarding health care oversight is also significantly less strict than that in the United States, yet they continue to be considered the best in the world in health care, while only spending 11.2% of their GDP (World Health Organization, 2012).

There are various viewpoints regarding both cases stated above but both cases have some similarities which have caused a public concern.

Many view France’s healthcare system as ideal. This opinion was validated when the World Health Organization ranked it number one in overall healthcare (WHO 2000). Their structure is a multi-payer system which has both public and private sections. It is more

The table that was chosen from Health United States, 2014 report, was on the following determinant of health: “Current cigarette smoking among adults age 18 and over, by sex (female), race and age; United States, selected years 1965-2013”; this table (below) was listed as table 52 on the report, found on page 182. Using the data from the selected table, a specific health problem that should be the focus of one research subject in public health is cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoking is a specific health problem because the table, shows the trend of cigarette smoking (with some variation), on the decline for all categories for females (race and age) as years progress. The problem of cigarette smoking still needs to be addressed

Tobacco is one of the world's dangerous drug which is haunting human lives to death. Over a billion adults are addicted to this drug and wasting their money, time and health. Nowadays there has been an ongoing debate/discussion among many people about the role of government in restricting the usage of Tobacco and thereby safeguarding the health of the public. In my personal opinion, both government and the Individual together needs to work to overcome this problem.

Smoking is an expensive habit. People who smoke cigarettes can spend as much as $2,500 a year on them. Smokers’ claim that it helps relax them and it releases stress but the negative aspects of smoking outweigh the positive. Smoking is a health hazard for smokers and non-smokers. Smokers should have the right to choose what to do with their own health but they should respect non-smokers. Many people believe that there are good and bad outcomes from smoking. I believe that smoking is bad and that it should be banned.

The tobacco industry is important to the economy. In 1991, worldwide tobacco sales exceeded $59.8 billion and in 1992 the industry was rated as one of the top one hundred advertisers (Pechmann and Ratneshwar, 1994). However, there are high prices to pay - socially, economically, and personally - as a result of this industry. Annual mortality figures indicate that cigarette smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the United States. An estimated 390,000 people die each year of smoke related illnesses, which is greater than the combined mortality for cocaine, crack, AIDS, homicide, suicide, and alcohol abuse (Botvin, G., Baker, Botvin, E., Dusenbury, Cardwell, and Diaz, 1993).

Nicotine use is a leading preventable cause of death in the world, directly and indirectly responsible for 440,000 deaths per year. The health problems that result in tobacco use tally an annual of $75 billion in direct medical costs (Slovic 36). That money spent on medical problems for smokers should be used to pay for more important things in our society such as schools, libraries, childcare, etc.