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• Primary care


  •GP

  •Dental services

  •Walk in centres

  •A&E (and 111)

  •Public health services

  •Health visitors

  •School nurses
• Primary care


  •Often 1st point of contact

  •Accessed directly

  •General care

  •Public participation

  •Deals with acute medical problems and refers to specialist
• Secondary care


  •Hospital services

  •Inpatients

  •Outpatients

  •Social care services
• Secondary care


  •Services which individuals are referred to

  •Planned care

  •Specialised care
• Tertiary care


  •Residential care home

  •Hospice

  •Mental health services

  •Individuals own home
• Tertiary care


  •Often long-term care

  •Highly specialised care (example burns unit)

  •Can be used as respite for families•End of life care
• Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave.
• Socioeconomic


  •The socioeconomic factors that determine health include: employment, education, and income.

  •Socioeconomic refers to society related economic factors.

  •Your income level often correlates to your level of education and your level of education helps to dictate your employment.
•  Communicable


  A disease that can spread between people
•  Non-communicable


   A disease that is usually caused by lifestyle, genetic of environmental factors
•  Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 was passed. This stated that no abled bodied person was to receive money for help unless they lived in a workhouse. The conditions in the workhouses were so poor to discourage anyone wanting to live there.
• The First National Public Health Act


   The 1848 Public Health Act was the first step on the road to improved public health.  

  One of the individuals who played an important role in its creation was Edwin Chadwick, a social reformer. 

  He argued that disease was the main reason for poverty, and that preventing disease would reduce the poor rates.

  He pushed to set up local boards to appoint a Medical Officer, provide sewers, inspect lodging houses and check food which was offered for sale
•  Launched on 5th July 1948 Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan Services free at point of use Everyone eligible for care, even visitors to the country