The aim of this essay is to show an understanding of community health. For the purpose of this essay the community, which will be discussed, will be Priory ward in Sale, which is part of Trafford in Manchester. The role and function of agencies and professionals in the delivery of health and social care within the Priory community will be discussed. How health and social care resources maximize and promote the health of a client group and how some aspects of social policy might impact upon the public health agenda will also be discussed. Basic principles of health promotion will be discussed and how these can be applied in practice to maximize the health of a client group. Factors that can affect the health of the community and a client group, how individual attitudes might impact upon maximizing health and how the process of socialization can affect health beliefs and behaviors and therefore health and social well being will also be discussed.
[...] UpMyStreeet (2003) suggests that the Priory community are less receptive to radio advertising than the average community, are more likely to believe a woman's place is in the home, more likely to eat a vegetarian diet and show little interest in new technologies and pieces of equipment. Naidoo and Wills (2000) argue that for in order for individuals to change their behavior, they need a reason to change, feel at risk with their current behavior, feel change could be advantageous and have few unpleasant effects and must feel capable. [...]
[...] An individual's behavior may be a reaction to the circumstances in which they live and the sources of these circumstances (for example, unemployment, poverty) are outside their control and influence their health (Naidoo and Wills, 2000). Naidoo and Wills (2000) argue that in order to establish what influences health, social scientists and epidemiologists will look for at least two variables, an assessment of health or more accurately ill health, such as morbidity or mortality and an aspect such as gender or occupation that might describe the diversity in health. [...]
[...] Sale community Web (2003) goes on to say that in 1849 the Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway was opened, Sale was growing more wealthy due to their thriving cotton industry and a nice place to live for the rising middle class of merchants to build their homes and they were away from the pressures of the city but within easy reach. Sale community Web (2003) asserts that communication links played an essential part in the growth of the suburbs and the railways were a key feature in the growth of Sale: by the end of the nineteenth century the population more than tripled. [...]
[...] and Rae, M. (2000) Government Policy and the Organisation of Mental Health Care. In R. Newell and K. Gournay. (2000). Mental Health Nursing. An Evidence Based Approach. London: Harcourt Publishers Limited. Haggart, M. (2000). Promoting the Health of [...]
[...] All health care professionals work under a Care Program Approach which was, according to Raistrick and Armstrong (2002), introduced in 1991 by the Department of Health as a complete structure for assessing the health and social needs of people with mental health problems and all clients on the CPA should have a written care plan that has been agreed by the client and their carers. Gournay and Rae (2000) assert that the CPA set out the keyworker approach and the following department of health document Building Bridges published in 1995 laid out how the care could be staged in order to prioritize services for those clients with severe problems. [...]
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