Healthcare Resources

Question 1

Taxonomy of Need

Answer 1

• Felt - Individual perception of variations from normal health.
• Expressed - Individual seeks help to overcome variation from normal health (demand).
• Normative - Professional defines interventions appropriate for the expressed need.
• Comparative - Comparisons between needs for severity, size, range of interventions, cost.

Question 2

Explain the concept of equity in healthcare

Answer 2

• Fairness
• Horizontal equity - equity between people with the same health care needs.
• Vertical equity - Those with unequal needs who should receive different or unequal health care.

Question 3

Explain the concept of equality in healthcare

Answer 3

• Sameness
• Reducing inequality is a key tenet of UK health policy.
• “The inverse care law states that the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served.”

Question 4

Explain the concept of inclusion in healthcare

Answer 4

the action or state of including or of being included within a group or structure.

Question 5

Pressures on NHS budgets

Answer 5

• Workforce rising vacancies and shortages = costly agency staff
• Demand - targets and indicators
• Medicines - new controlled by NICE or Scottish medicines consortium or older by market
• Savings - government targets to reduce waste; increase efficiency

Question 6

Public Health Challenges

Answer 6

• Substance misuse - Drugs, alcohol
• Smoking
• Obesity
• Poverty, food and fuel insecurity
• Covid.

Question 7

What are the variations in healthcare utilisation? What are the underlying reasons?

Answer 7

• drug-related, alcohol consumption, smoking

- different areas it is more prevalent in.