Health Variations in the UK

By the end of this lesson you will have:

• Re-capped prior learning• Investigated regional health

variations in the UK• Facilitated learning about

your region to the rest of the group considering social

welfare• Practised an exam question

for this topic

Stay Standing if you think that…

• 1. You can explain what the ABC campaign is• 2. USA takes an insurance healthcare

approach• 3. You know how much drugs companies make

each year from C.H.D• 4. You can define a T.N.C• 5. You can give an argument for and an

argument against tobacco TNCs

Introductory Content – Life Expectancy

• On the whole, men at 65 are now expected to live an extra 16.6 years and women an extra 19.4 years – mortality dynamic is changing

• Depending on where you live in the UK, your gender and your ethnicity you will have a different average life expectancy

• Q. Where have you seen evidence of this on your course so far?

Introductory Content – Life Expectancy

• What have all these pictures got in common with regards to health?

The Highest Life Expectancy at Birth

Key Word!!

HOMOGENISE

Assessment Sandwich

• 5mins – Group get ‘beginning questions’• 10mins – Group get resource, using your roles you

read/analyse, discuss and pick out 5 key points to share with the class

• 5mins – Group get ‘after questions’

• Facilitator: Asks the questions, ensures everyone in the group has a go at answering

• Reader/Analyser: Reads the document out loud/holds the document, ensures everyone can have a look

• Summariser: Tries to explain the information on the document• Scribe: Makes notes of the discussion/information which has

been discovered

Class Facilitation Facilitate

• Resource 1 – Health Inequality Map

• Resource 2 – North/South Divide

• Resource 3 – Government Mental Health Charts

• Learn from each other – fill in your worksheets and most importantly ASK QUESTIONS

Exam Practise

Jan 2011 - 8a – 4mins• There is no need to give specific names but areas should be clear• Key aspects of the pattern• Supporting evidence• Areas of highest incidence of poor health is South Wales (11.9-

16.5)• Identification of urban conurbations in the North/Tyneside/South

Yorkshire are relatively high (9.1 – 11.8)• Median values (7.4 – 9.0) cut across central England and parts of

the north• Lowest incidence are found south west of The Wash, South West

and South Cost (excluding London) (5.7 – 7.3)• YOU WILL ONLY GET 2/4 IF: You have written health is higher in

North and lower in South and given evidence

Exam Practise

Jan 2011 – 8b – 6mins‘Suggest reasons for health variations in the UK’• Level 1 (1-4)–• Indicates factors that cause variations in

health. General points with no support• Level 2 (5-6)– • Clearly explains how two or more reasons

result in regional variations in health• Specific, elaborated points with support

Plenary – Pass it On

• 1. Why are alcohol related problems usually found in coastal regions?

• 2. Which areas have the lowest levels of health in the UK?

• 3. How much likely are the north to die before 75 than their southern counter-parts?

• 4. Is health linked to development?• 5. What reasons are there for a north/south

divide?