suggests there is an estimated 11.9 million people at increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the UK because of their lifestyle. People are being urged to consider their health and ways to improve it. For example, the online quiz ‘how are you?’ helps participate assess their health and offers advice when needed. Advice being how they can eat better, be more active, stop smoking and consider their alcohol consumption. Therefore, age can be a contributing factor for health as older people are seen as being busy at work and with their families, that their own health is the least of their priorities.
Occupation could also contribute to poor health. Health and Wellbeing (2016) conducted medical research that concluded working hard
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34% of 16-34 year olds currently visit a gym. While there is a similar proportion of women visiting a gym, there is a subtle gender difference. However, women are almost four times more likely to be currently on a diet. Therefore, there are subtle differences between genders, with a higher number of men being members at the gym and more women being on diets.
Methodology
Ontology is the philosophical study of existence or reality. A branch of metaphysics concerned with identifying things that ‘exist’. Whether or not the social world is external or something created from an individuals subjective viewpoint (Bryman, 2008). Objectivism believes in one true reality through social facts. The approach used is social constructivism. As reality is different for everyone with no fixed truth as meanings are subjective on the individual. For example, people having different perceptions on what is healthy. We are aiming to understand which decisions influenced their opinion on who are the healthy.
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that is concerned of the study of knowledge (Bryman, 2008). Positivism is the testing for the absolute truth, favouriting quantitative methods. (Jary and Jary, 2000). Interpretivism believes in experiences of truth/perspectives. It also favours qualitative methods of finding subjective meanings. The approach
Throughout the whole of the United Kingdom, between 2 and 3 of every 100 people have a
Idealist ontology holds the belief that research knowledge is made up of subjective experiences obtained through observation that is consistently influenced by the researcher's interpretations (Giacomini, 2010). Qualitative
At a client’s house I made homemade mince and potatoes, with all the peeling from the carrots and potatoes and put them into the kitchen bin them emptied the kitchen bin into the outside bin.
This essay will focus on type 2 diabetes, which is becoming one of the fast growing chronic health conditions in the United Kingdom (UK). Approximately 700 people are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes each day in the UK (Diabetes Uk, (2014)a). It is costing the NHS about £10billion pounds each year to treat diabetes along with its complication and it is expected to rise in the next couple of years (Diabetes UK, (2014)b).
Health check programmes are effective only if the lifestyle interventions offered prevent or delay type 2 diabetes. Currently the interventions offered to people identified
Compare the role of two complementary therapies with those of more orthodox treatments – M2
Over the course of the last 50 years in the UK the government (England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland) have made a great effort in order to improve the overall health of the general population in the UK. This has been achieved through the use of making the general population more aware of the dangers to their health and what they are along with they can do in order to improve it, thereby making better informed decisions in regards to their health when it comes to things such as diet, road safety (driving), exercise, smoking and education.
Family up bringing/background: If a child or person (adult) has a poor upbringing or background, they may be at risk of certain diseases, if they lived in a house where it was poor condition (damp, mould on the walls or floors, the mother or father not washing the child’s clothes, leaving a baby in a dirty nappy) all these can cause problems, also if the family live in a high crime rate area, the child/children may be influenced by older peers/friends to commit crimes and offences, the influenced children may become criminals, and give the impression when they have children of their own that stealing
M2 – Discuss the factors likely to influence current and future patterns of health in the UK
Lifestyle choices and behaviours are amongst the factors that are most easily controlled by the individual themselves. It is our choice to smoke, eat foods that are high in sugar and fat and not exercise. These are three of the leading factors that can cause coronary heart disease (N.Gledhill, personal communication, 2004) and yet thousands of people continue to do it because they are not aware, nor have they been informed, of the negative effects simple lifestyle behaviours can have on ones body. If one is not educated about certain facts and insights, how are they expected to make an informed, or even a wise, decision? Therefore, a lack of education has a strong influence on the health of an individual for the reason that they are unable to make proper and healthy lifestyle choices. A study conducted on the association between educational attainment and other determinants of health on the elderly yielded results that showed:
Mills next discusses objectivism. This suggests the independence of what we choose and what we believe. Within objectivism, there is realism and constructivism. Starting with realism, it can be defined as viewing that it is objectively the case that there are human races. For instance, we know that there are multiple and specific human races attached to human beings. Digging deeper on the meaning, constructivism
Lifestyle choices such as smoking, drinking alcohol, poor diet and lack of physical exercise have many diseases associated with them. In 2006-07, patients with these diseases cost the NHS a combined total of £18.4bn (Scarborough et al. 2011). If the NHS limited treatment to these groups of people, it would be able to invest this money into other areas of need. This could lead to improved facilities for people who become ill through no fault of their own.
That means natural scientists believe there is only one truth. On the opposite some social scientists believe that multiple truths can exist around a phenomenon which fulfils the relativism paradigm (Shah and Corley, 2006). Finally, according to Easterby-Smith, Thorpe and Jackson (2012) researchers on the position of nominalism believe, that reality will be created through language and social exchange. Thus, what does it mean in regards of epistemology? According to Easterby-Smith, Thorpe and Jackson (2012) scientists who see the nature of reality from the angle of realism or internal realism will inquire the physical and social world rather in a positivistic way. On the other hand, researchers who prefer a relativism or even a nominalism view explore the world through constructionism. What does that now mean for me as a researcher? Depending on my ontological and epistemological perception I would be able to define my research methodology. Of course, the research
The population health factors is a subject of extensive discussion within American health care system, nonetheless, few comprehend the bearing to modern health care environment.
Ontology is the study of what there is and is a theory about the types of entities there are