P3 Unit 7 Health And Social

Explain the relationship between factors and affecting health and wellbeing Heath care practitioners will research the links between certain public health issues and possible causes, triggers or individuals lifestyle choices for example smoking or eating a high cholesterol diet. They do this to be able to advise individuals and prevent them from getting the illness or to find ways on how to treat the illness because they have gained a better understanding of where it comes from. For example researchers found that there was a link between elderly people being susceptible to the flu because their immune system was weaker, to prevent them from getting the virus they would have been immunised and keep away from possibly being exposed to the virus.

Evaluate service interventions and policies

This is looking and whether public interventions and policies that have been put in place by health care professionals and the government are working. For example when the smoking ban was put in place a year later the number of children admitted to hospital with asthma has reduced by 12.3 per cent. This suggested that the legislation was working because the number of hospital admissions decreased and the number of children with asthma dropped (Wong, 2013). This research enables health care professionals to know if they legislations or promotions that have been put in place are working or if they need to be edited to gin a better outcome.

Epidemiological and census data is used in policy making and service planning.

Epidemiology is the study of disease in humans, the data is accumulated though episode which is taken from hospital data bases and GP surgeries(Woodward, n.d.). Census data is obtained by researchers ending out a survey to ever household to find out how many individual live in the population. Health care practitioners use these types of data to plan for the best possible services of the individuals in the populations and also they use this data to evaluate how well services are working. For example if it is found that there are a lot of teenagers in the population, services will be but in place for them like youth clubs sexual health clinics and possible educational promotions on sexual health. Census and epidemiology data allow health care practitioners and the government to know what is needed to be put in place and exactly how much of it is needed.