UK Public Health Safety

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Subject Area:Social Work

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Some agencies conduct research and organize activities that encourage individual health by use of data gathered from reliable sources. According to (Gorli, pg. 99), major leading public healthcare agencies that formularize procedures to maintain good health and disease prevention process is National Healthcare Service (NHS). World Health Organization (WHO) is the leading international health agency whose role is to regulate the plan and strategy for all forms of healthcare sectors in the world. WHO monitors all nations to ensure the implementation of regulations at all levels of healthcare activities. 2 Epidemiology is the study of the dissemination and cause of states or events associated to health such as diseases and the utilization of such study in controlling diseases and other health issues. (Gorli, pg.

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115), stresses that WHO is in charge of collecting and analyzing data and monitoring diseases to determine the distribution thus leading to prevention or control of epidemics and other health issues within a community. After identifying the health problem, the organization evaluates appropriate health programs that would be effective in preventing or controlling diseases. In the UK, two main types of diseases have been identified such as communicable and non-communicable. 27) and older adults to boost their immune systems. The other infectious disease that is widespread in the UK is HIV. HIV is a human immune deficiency that is spread through contact with body fluids of an infected person such as semen, tissue transplants, blood or blood transfusion. The most common way of widespread HIV is unprotected sex between uninfected and infected person and blood transfusion.

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Also, a pregnant mother can transmit the virus to a newborn child. 3 The leading healthcare public agencies are utilizing various approaches and strategies in the control and prevention of certain impacts identified disorders that have a significant impact on the well-being of the community members. The UK healthcare agencies are using health campaigns that aim at creating awareness among the public on ways of prevention of particular diseases both infectious and non-infectious. (Jetten, pg. 121), says that there is an intervention that is directed towards the about dietary practices and lifestyle to promote physical and psychological health. Major health organizations such as NHS are providing effective directions to local health authorities and healthcare facilities towards the provision of treatments for these diseases.

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Additionally, According to (Phillips, pg. 9% of deaths are caused by HIV, and 1. 5% resulted from Malaria. However, HIV is one of the infectious diseases that have critical effects on world’s population and across the UK. Hence, social care organization should prioritize HIV and Diabetes to safeguard the population from the disease. Finally, tertiary prevention is the last stage of care that is given to patients suffering particular chronic disease. The patient is reassured of their wellbeing after having been exposed to the disease and is given to both the patient and their family to enhance the quality of life. It involves both medical and emotional care where it provides relief from the disease. In the UK there are a lot of palliate care programs and centers for HIV and cancer patients.

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2 Prevalence of disease offers the statistical data of people affected by the illness among the population of participants in the research data. Although diabetes can be a congenital disorder, lifestyle choices also influence. For instance, people with genetic mutations that are vulnerable to diabetes type 2 can overcome the disease by taking good care of one thus resisting the development of the disorder. Also, individuals who consume junk foods and food rich in high cholesterol and remain inactive also are susceptible to developing diabetes since lifestyle choices may influence the way the body regulates body insulin. These lifestyle choices involve; Lack of exercise- when someone is overweight and does not exercise, they are vulnerable to diabetes since the body is unable to regulate the level of insulin due to excessive cholesterol in the body.

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Exercise aids the cutting down of excess cholesterol and keeping the level of sugar average. Moreover, technology has influenced the way people interact and most of the time is when people are on their laptops and smartphones. These activities keep people inactive thus result in changed eating habit and lifestyle choices that affect health without their consent. The altered lifestyle means that it is time for social health services to step in and fasten their responses towards these changes to secure the future of public health. Effective programmed policies need to be put in place to deal with the gradual health issues. From the discussed data, the main target of these organizations would be eating habit and Diabetes since they are influencing the public health in the United Kingdom.

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4 the healthcare setting is providing Mrs. Senna with every treatment required for promoting her wellbeing including emotional and mental treatment. The policies and strategies used by the health organization will impact her health wellbeing and encourage her to follow the process and advises offered by the healthcare practitioners. There would be proper monitoring and constant enhancement of quality of services that will help the organization to offer the maximized care Mrs. Senna needs. Although people are informed of the impacts of change of lifestyle and process of performing a daily activity, they lack alertness about their health and requirements of those activities which are affecting health. If Mrs. Senna follows properly the recommended lifestyle change, it is certainty that she will overcome significant impacts of diabetes and obesity.

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