Trends of Health and Illness in Different Social Groups Age- Most people in retirement are health and fit. They make valued contributions to society through paid work‚ volunteer work and by being a good citizen to the society and to their families. However there are higher levels of illness in people over 75. This is because as people grow older their bodies may be unable to function as well as it did‚ therefore they are unlikely to receive as much exercise and fresh air‚ also they may be unable
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assignment I am going to write a report explaining the patterns and trends of health and illness in three social groups: gender‚ ethnicity and social class. I am also going to explain the pattern and trends of health and illness which looks at measurement of health‚ morbidity rates‚ mortality rates‚ disease incidence‚ disease prevalence and health surveillance. Measurements of health Health is generally measured in negative terms‚ such as the level of disease and the number of deaths within a population
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Task 1- P1‚ P2 and M3 Public health is looking at the health of a community and population. It looks at factors affecting the health of community such as: diets‚ age‚ sex‚ working conditions and social class. The World Health Organisation (WHO) monitors the health of the world and promotes the importance of preventing communicable and non-communicable diseases in order to give people healthier lives. There are strategies set in place to help improve public health. The main for that I will be talking
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Model Assignment (Learner Extract) Issued September 2012 OCR Level 3 Cambridge Technicals in Health and Social Care Unit 1: developing effective communication in health & social care Please note: This OCR Cambridge model assignment may be used to provide evidence for the unit identified above. Alternatively‚ centres may ‘tailor’ or modify the assignment within permitted parameters (see Information for Teachers). It is the centre’s responsibility to ensure that any modifications
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Understanding patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings Measuring health Statistics regarding health and illness levels are generated by three main groups. These groups are: * Government: These provide a wide range of current statistics; The Office of National Statistics provides this. They have a hard and electrical copy of such things as GP appointments from surgeries‚ infant mortality rates‚ hospital admissions‚ suicide rates and many other statistics. They
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Assignment 304 – Principles for implementing duty of care in health‚ social care or children’s and young people settings. Task C Ci) Organisational requirements for dealing with complaints The setting should have Concerns and Complaints Policy in place. The main aim of it is to ensure that complaints procedure is properly and effectively implemented and that service users feel confident that their complaints and worries are listened to and acted upon promptly and fairly. When dealing
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Merit 2 – Use different sociological perspectives to discuss patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups. Distinction 1 - Evaluate different sociological explanations for patterns and trends of health and illness in two different social groups. There are many different factors that can increase your chance of becoming ill and dying. The different factors are social class‚ gender‚ age and ethnicity. The different social groups I will look at are social class and gender
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This assignment workbook will cover all the criteria for the technical certificate unit PWCS 31. Where criteria have been covered is outlined in the table below: |Assessment Criteria for PWCS 31 (tech cert) |Question it has been covered in | |PWCS 31 – 1.1 |Question 1 | |PWCS 31 – 1.2
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P3- Patterns and trends in health and illness among different social grouping Men and Women Women are more likely to become ill than men for many reasons. Men are likely to have strong immune systems than women as they tend to put themselves first‚ whereas a woman has different priorities. Another reason why women may become ill opposed to men is the fact that a lot more women have to work the double day than men. The double day consist of the individual going out to work on a day to day basis
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Unit Title: Unit sector reference: Level: Credit value: Guided learning hours: Unit expiry date: Unit accreditation number: Facilitate person centred assessment‚ planning‚ implementation and review HSC 3020 Three 6 45 30/04/2015 H/601/8049 Unit purpose and aim This unit is aimed at those working in a wide range of settings. It provides the learner with the knowledge and skills required to facilitate person-centred assessment‚ planning‚ implementation and review. Learning Outcomes The learner
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