Unit 12 Task 2

The National Health System began in 1948 with the aim to provide free health care for the English thus removing health access inequities. This essay considers two strengths of the NHS, being free health and locally responsive health care and two weaknesses being the financial burden and unprecedented pressure on health care resources.

The following paper is based on the differences between two healthcare systems in two different countries, these systems are the Australian healthcare system which is Medicare, and England’s National health system which is known as the NHS.

The National health services (NHS) provides a comprehensive healthcare services across the entire nation. It is considered to be UK’s proudest institution, and is envied by many other countries because of its free of cost health delivery to its population. Nevertheless, it is often seen as a ‘political football’ as it affects all of us in some way and hence everyone carry an opinion about it (Cass, 2006). Factors such as government policies, funding, number of service users, taxation etc all make up small parts of this large complex organisation. Therefore, any imbalances within one sector can pose a substantial risk on the overall NHS (Wheeler & Grice, 2000). This essay will discuss whether the NHS aim of reducing the nations need

In this 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.

There are many socio-economic factors that are likely to influence current health. If people are living in poor housing conditions which could mean that their health might not be so good, they could be given housing benefits to improve the conditions. If the area where you are living, the environment might not be very good, like the waste management could be bad. To stop this from

Merit 2 – Use different sociological perspectives to discuss patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups.

In 1974 reform of the NHS seen eliminated the involvement of local authorities in health, set up community health councils, introduced area health authorities and changed the management of family doctor services (JISC 2015). The conservative Government reforms of the NHS bought much controversy, supporters claimed the reforms brought increased efficiency and effectiveness, but opponents said they undermined the founding principles of the health service (BBC 1999). However the spending cost of the NHS was a concern, with an ageing population and increase of new advance technology, experts said that the NHS needed above inflation increases of at least 1% a year simply to stand still (BBC 1999). The government, inspired by the Griffiths Report (1983), blamed disorganised management and structures within the NHS for the cash problems (BBC 1999). The National Health Service and Community Act of 1990 was the future explanation (BBC

Boys D and Langridge E – BTEC National Health and Social Care Book 1 (Nelson Thornes, 2007)

There are considerable health inequalities amongst Britain’s social classes. Health is formed by socio-economic, political and environmental factors; these elements shape inequalities and influence the health of various social groups in Britain.

In today’s world a big topic of discussion is healthcare. Currently, the United States uses Obamacare. Many believe that Obamacare is nice step up from the previous healthcare system but others may disagree and seek a different, better, solution from other countries. Great Britain is one of those other countries and they run their healthcare based on the National Health Service, a completely free healthcare service.

Initially security issues wouldn’t be very high priority for this website as they had no customer information that they could lose but now that I have given them a shop and a members section, they would have to be a lot more conscious of security issues. According to my research people think that security is very important, in my research the participants of my questionnaire almost all said very important and only a few said fairly important. This is one of the sections that I see to be a high priority, this is because when a customer buys something they are agreeing to the business retaining their contact details, so they need to be highly protected from things like crashes and hacking. Security also applies to some other parts of the website, including on the member’s login, which retains their email address and name, and on the contact us page, as this retains the name and email address as well. I used a PayPal login box on the front end of the website due to what my research showed me, it was one of the most common subjects of my research, and this is the more secure payment option of the website but the Kendal golf club website mentioned what type of security they use, which was a 128 bit encryption, and upon further research I found that this was a very secure type of encryption and I plan to use that as the payment method on the website. The only problem with secure payment is that it may cost money to set up which the business may not

Although it has been identified that addressing health inequalities in Staffordshire requires both organisational change in the ways public sector designs and commissions services and behavioural change in the number of people making healthy lifestyle choices , however gaps in health and care provided across Staffordshire reflect they are reactive, driven by disjointed incentives and priorities , with very little attention paid to initiatives to address social determinants of health.

The United Kingdom utilizes a national health service. This service is government owned and controlled. Most practitioners are employees of the government and hospitals are government run. Taxes provide nearly 80% of the funding for their health program. The remainders of the cost are covered by employee and employer contributions. Most providers and hospitals are public, although there is a small but growing private sector. The citizens of the United Kingdom pay nothing for visits to their physician or hospital stays. They also can choose which providers they want to visit and have “good access to primary care” (Hohman, 2006). The United Kingdom ranked number 18 in overall healthcare (WHO 2000) while spending only 8.4% of its gross domestic product (Kaiser EDU). In a recent poll, 79% of UK citizens “agreed that the NHS provided them with good service” (Health Science Journal, 2009).

Socio-cultural - The Office for National Statistics (ONS) state that, since 1964, the population of the UK has grown by over ten million (about half of this growth has occurred since 2001), in addition the average age of a UK citizen has increased by four years. This means that not only does NHS

This essay is looking at what the key factors most commonly regarded as being linked to health inequalities in the United Kingdom. Firstly, what does the term health inequalities mean according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) “Health inequalities can be defined as differences in health status or in the distribution of health determinants between different population groups. For example, differences in mobility between elderly people and younger populations or differences in mortality rates between people from different social classes. It is important to distinguish between inequality in health and inequity. Some health inequalities are attributable to biological variations or free choice and others are attributable to the external