Transcript Health and wealth revision

Health and Wealth
Revision
Topics to focus on
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Services provided by NHS
Inequalities in health
Government –ways of improving health in Scotland
Causes of poverty in the UK
Effects of poverty
Care for the Elderly
Private health care-for and against
Helping meet the needs of vulnerable groups-lone
parents, the elderly
• Lone parents having jobs
• Prescription charges
• Free School meals
Questions
Describe, in detail, the services provided by the
National Health Service in Scotland (6)
• Family doctor/GP services.
• Hospital care and treatment.
• Medicine on prescription.
• Preventative measures eg vaccination/screening.
• Health promotion.
• Mental health care.
• Geriatric health care.
• Maternity care.
• Community health care.
Increase in state benefits
Advantages of increasing state benefits
• lift more people out of poverty
• reduces stress of living on very low income
• improves health of people on low incomes
• children benefit from additional income – promotes social inclusion.
Disadvantages of increasing state benefits
• more expensive for tax-payer
• less money for government to spend elsewhere
• encourages ‘dependency’ culture
• disincentive to find work.
Describe, in detail primary and secondary
health care services provided by the NHS
in Scotland (6)
Primary health care services
• GP practices – doctors/nurses/midwives/physiotherapists
• Primary Care Teams
• local health care co-operatives
• community health care programmes
• dental practitioners/opticians/pharmacists
Secondary health care services
• acute hospital trusts
• hospital care – treatment, surgery, etc.
Explain, in detail why some people suffer from
poorer health than others (8)
• Family background/genetic legacy leading to ill health.
• Individual lifestyle choices eg smoking, poor diet, lack
of exercise, drug abuse, excessive alcohol
consumption.
• Environmental factors including bad housing.
• Failure to access health care.
• Impact of social and economic deprivation.
• Gender differences in health.
• Decline in health associated with ageing.
• Racial inequalities in health.
Explain, in detail, why reducing
poverty in the UK is an important
government policy (8)
• because of the link between poverty and ill health
• gap in life expectancy
• higher incidence of disease in lower socio-economic groups
• poverty leads to poor housing conditions
• too many children living in poverty
• to improve health by ensuring every family can afford a
healthy diet and therefore improve health in Scotland
• to reduce social exclusion and promote equal educational
opportunities
• to reduce crime since many link crime to poverty
• benefits to government of lower public spending on welfare.
Advantages of lone parents
having jobs
Advantage
• children looked after by own parent
• reduces stress as parent does not have to cope with
two jobs
• reduces need to provide child care
Disadvantage
• making ends meet on low income
• stressful/lonely/parent misses out on socialising with
colleagues
Describe in detail, the consequences of
poverty (8)