Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Health & Wealth in the UK
- Health - a state of complete psychical,
mental and social well being
- "An organism when it functions optimally
without any evidence of abnromallity"
- Health Inequality - Something that causes some people to experience more health problems than others
- Why some people die younger than others
- Why some people have more illness than others
- Why older people have more problems than younger people
- Why women have more health problems than men
- We can examine these differences by looking at inequalities in areas such as
- Age
- Elderly tend to need most health care
- This doesn't mean all
elderly are unhealthy
- Satisfaction with
health DECLINES by age
- Older people are more likely to experience
- Cancer
- Heart Disease
- Stroke
- Athritis
- Incontinence
- Hearing/Sight Problems
- Younger people are more likely to experience
- Death through risky
behaviour
- Eating Disorders
- Teen Prenancy
- STI's/STD's
- Ethnicity
- Some health conditions are more likely to affect
particular ethnic groups
- Sickle Cell Disease - more likely to affect blacks
- British Heart Foundation Statistics
- Conarary Heart Disease rates are highest
in South Asian communites
- Stroke rates are highest in
African/Carribbean communites
- Life Style
- Life style refers to the choices that people
make in terms of
- Diet/Exercise
- Eating the wrong foods can cause health problems
- Malnutrition
- Diabeties
- Heart Disease
- Stroke
- Choosing NOT to exercise leads to weight gain
- Smoking, Drinking, Drug use
- Drinking to excess causes many physical
and mental health problems
- Smoking damages health
- Sexual Health
- Unsafe sexual practices can lead to STI's/STD/s or unwanted
pregnancy