Discuss the health problems and health service issues associated

Discuss the health problems and health service issues associated with homelessnessDiscuss the health problems and health service issues associated with homelessness Public health and health policy Discuss the health problems and health service issues that are associated with homelessness in London,ukWhat is public health???Improving the health of populations and communities rather than the individual??Preventing ill health in the population through a variety of methods and by a variety of organisations, in addition to those provided by health organisations??Managing changes needed to improve or prevent ill health??3 strandsHealth improvementHealth protectionHealth servicesWhat is public health? (continued)definitions of public health:Public health is the science and the art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting physical health and efficiency through organised community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organisation of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventative treatment of disease, and the development of social machinery which will ensure to every individual in the community a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health.?? (Winslow 1920)The art and science of promoting health and preventing disease by the organised efforts of society??(Acheson 1988)4. THE ??NEW PUBLIC HEALTH’Healthy communitieshere is health and well-being actually created?Health and well-being are not created in hospitals or doctors’ offices, they are part of the illness service, so we have to find strategies to help create health and well-being. Projects such as Healthy Cities and Health Promoting Schools can help focus our thinking on creating health.We can create health by actually changing the institutions and environments in which people spend a major part of their day, and by enabling people to participate in that change.?? Based on Ilona Kickbush, WHO, 1994Definitions: Healthy Public Policy and Health Impact Assessment.(WHO Adelaide Recommendations on Healthy Public Policy, 1988)??In the pursuit of healthy public policy, government sectors concerned with agriculture, trade, education, industry, and communications need to take into account health as an essential factor when formulating policy.??These sectors should be accountable for the health consequences of their policy decisions.??They should pay as much attention to health as to economic considerations??The notion of health impact assessmentHealthy Public Policy??Healthy public policies should be:Ecological in perspectiveMultisectoral in scopeCollaberative in strategyOther material??Health needs assessmentWhat will have most impact??Demography??epidemiologyLoading??Discuss the health problems and health service issues associated with homelessnessDefinition of homelessnessSpectrum of housing needProblem of a settings approachHard to reach groupHousing as a determinant of healthdemography/epidemiologyAccidents/suicide/violence and alcoholismProblems associated with B&B, hotels