Health and homelessness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katy Hetherington ◽  
Neil Hamlet
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
National Health ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Equity Issue ◽  
The Right

This chapter examines the opportunities to improve the health of homeless people and the challenge for the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland, working with its partners, to play a full role in the prevention of homelessness. It first considers why homelessness is a public health and health equity issue before discussing the Scottish government's emphasis on the prevention of homelessness through housing. It then explains how public services, through a better understanding of the diverse causes of homelessness and routes into and out of homelessness, can lead a collaborative approach to creating the right conditions for people to flourish. This can be summed up by the ‘5Rs’: Rafters, Relationships, Resources, Restoration and Resilience in the prevention and mitigation of homelessness.

scholarly journals Who is the right person to look after the mentally retarded?

Curationis ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Ehlers
Keyword(s):  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Residential Care ◽  
National Health ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Mentally Handicapped ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right

A committee was set up in Britain in 1975 under the Chairmanship of Mrs Peggy Jay to look into the staffing of mental handicapped residential care in the National Health Service. Part of the task was to consider the Briggs Committee’s recommendation that “… a new caring profession for the mentally handicapped should emerge gradually”. The findings and recommendations of the committee were however radical and far-reaching, involving an enormous shift in financial resources and causing much concern and outcry from the nursing profession which considered the new category of care given as a threat to their existence.

Policy Changes in the National Health Service: Implications and Opportunities for Occupational Therapists

2000 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 218-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Individual Health

Recent changes in the philosophy and structure of the National Health Service give greater emphasis to the prevention of ill health within locally defined communities. Occupational therapists, by virtue of their unique philosophy, have an opportunity to influence primary care strategy and practice by highlighting the links between environment, occupation and health. The recent changes in the structure of the National Health Service are described and the philosophy of occupational therapy is discussed in relation to these changes. This description provides the basis for recommendations as to how occupational therapists can work to build a recognition of the fundamental importance of adaptive occupation to individual health and, hence, to health at a community and population level. Working at a community and population level will require occupational therapists to strengthen links with health promotion and public health in order to help promote health through meaningful occupations within local settings.

scholarly journals From the National Health Service to local government: perceptions of public health transition in England

Public Health ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 11-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Atkins ◽  
M.P. Kelly ◽  
C. Littleford ◽  
G. Leng ◽  
S. Michie
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Service ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Transition
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