Essay
Write an essay of +1500 words on the following:
Describe the relative and changing prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases in the United Kingdom from the 1800s up to the present day. Your essay should include explanation for why these changes have occurred.
Suggestions:
Explain the pattern of disease incidence in the 18/19th centuries compared to 20th / 21st centuries. Which diseases were/are more prevalent in each of the two eras
Explain why the change in the pattern and type of disease occurrence has happened in that way ( think about social factors such as changes in housing, amount of physical activity people undertake in their daily lives, housing and sanitation improvements, dietary improvements ( or not!), medical treatments such as vaccines, antibiotics, the free healthcare available on NHS since middle 1900s.
Finish with a conclusion as to where you think the pattern of health is going, bearing in mind lifestyles, warnings of antibiotics losing their potency etc, increased global migration
Sources:
Internet:You need to search the internet for information use only reliable sources such as public museum sites, academic or government department websites, recognised charities
( e.g. British Heart Foundation)
Below are some to get you started and in this folder on SMO are some papers
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/periods_styles/19thcentury/gender_health/health_medecine/index.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/482384/public-health/35547/National-developments-in-the-18th-and-19th-centuries
http://sites.scran.ac.uk/lamb/cholera.htm
http://www.sgm.ac.uk/pubs/micro_today/pdf/020309.pdf
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence www.nice.org.uk
Department of Health www.doh.gov.uk
For national and global health policy and useful statistics:
The Kings Fund www.kingsfund.org
National Office of Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk
World Health Organisation www.who.int
Library books on Public Health e.g. Ewles,L. (2006) Key Topics in Public Health. Elsevier Publishers.
Please USE ( APA ) reference style.
Task: write a plan with just a key for each of the three points suggested above.
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