Health issues in Britain

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According to Abercrombie and Ward (2000) these are to do with:
region
social class
gender
ethnicity
allocation of resources

What can you discover about these inequalities? Can you find any examples of how these inequalities present themselves.

In the UK, the National Health Service was the world's first universal health caresystem provided by government. It was established in 1948 by Clement Atlee's Labour government.

As I known from the class the health service of Brain is quite good system ,but according to the present real situation, it still excists some problems. First of all, the health care is not equal for different people who come from different regions, also it is directly relevant to the person's background(eg.social class,ethnicity )and gender. From a public survey shows that death rates by sex and social class in those aged 15 to 64 years in rates per 1000 population, that the death rate in that age group is 2.5 times as high in lowest social class as in highest social class and that the rate for men is almost twice that for women in all groups.

At the same time,according to TUC reports, there are ten million working women in Britain. Many factors have helped keep occupational health a "men only" issue, from bad science to prejudice, to the jobs we do.The two enduring myths are that men do all the risky work and when women do get hurt it is explained by differences in gender, not jobs.

About resources, in Britain, the public hospitals have 500,000 sickbeds in total; arrange 1000 people have 9 sickbeds and 8 doctors. All patients have the right to be seen within a certain amount of time but the situation of lack of docotor and nurse(special female nurse )has been a big problem for many years in Britain. City region be sent more docotors and nurses, also,docotors and nurses all are tend to go to bigger and better hospitals, it causes the unequal allocation of resources' problem more seriously. Many patients expressed they always need wait the longest time to see doctor.

In fact, now,NHS is considering to solve some of the problems.

Recently,Lib Dems said,NHS should be run by elected, local boards. The Lib Dems used to be committed to offering free personal care to all elderly people. But they rejected that policy on the grounds that it would be too costly and that in Scotland, where free personal care for the elderly is supposed to be available, most people do not get their full care costs paid because budgets are capped.

Whatever NHS will have a reform or not, to me, I really hope and looking forward to it can do more benifits for the people who live in Britain. Hopefully.

Anna.

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