THE CURRENT HEALTH STATUS OF THE UK POPULATION

The current health status of the UK population

The current health status of the UK population

Introduction

Public health not only concerns with the treating of the diseases of the people but also it concerns with improving the health of the population. This report focuses on the health of people living in the UK. It mainly focuses on the key dimension of health status. In this report emphasis is placed on health trends over time in order to determine the health status of the UK population.

Discussion

According to the Census of 2010, people living in the UK rated their general health in the previous year as 'good' in forty million out of the fifty-nine million, an additional of thirteen million rated it as 'fairly good', whilst six million people rated their health as 'not good'. Children had the highest rate of good general health at over ninety percent, with an extra eight percent rating their general health as fairly good. (Benzeval, 2009)

According to the Census of 2010, 9 out of 10 people (ninety-one per cent) in private house-holds in United Kingdom stated a good and fairly good health. Age-standardized of good and fairly good health were parallel for men and women. Children under sixteen years of age represented better health, with ninety-nine per-cent having a good and fairly good health. For those aged above sixteen, age definite rates of good and fairly good health decreases with the age. The less healthy population was of people aged seventy five and over, seventy two per-cents said they were in good and fairly good health.

There are significant differences in health status reported by the National Classification of socio-economic statistics (NS-SEC), as measured by the profession. Among those in employment, people in regular jobs were the worst self-rated health in 2010. (Lawlor, 2010)

The age standardized rates for men in traditional occupations who rated their health as good, no more than two times higher for people in more managers and professionals. Unemployed peoples' health was even worse than in the traditional trades.

Course in good health and a steady decline by age with corresponding increases in prices of pretty good and not good health. While those aged sixty five and above make up only sixteen percent of the population whereas the forty percent of those, health status is not in good condition.

Men more often than healthy women report rates seventy ...