Public Health Policy Analysis

The Office for National Statistics (2004) most recent report found that 1 in 10 children and young people have a clinical diagnosis of a mental disorder. Fink et al (2015) conducted a study between 2009 and 2014 and found similar results, however there was a difference in the increase of emotional problems experienced amongst girls and a decrease in difficulties experienced amongst boys. The idea around the Healthy Lives; Healthy People paper published in November 2010 is to set out a new approach to tackle public health challenges by putting local communities at the heart of public health. By creating a new public health service known as Public Health England to support local innovation, provide disease control and protect and spread information

Longest (2010) defines the term policy as “authoritative decisions made in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches of government that are intended to direct or influence the actions, behaviors, or decisions of others”. Bircher (2005) defines health as “a dynamic state of well-being characterized by a physical and mental potential, which satisfies the demands of life commensurate with age, culture, and personal responsibility”. Health policy is interpreted as the outcomes, arrangements, and behaviors that are undertaken in society to accomplish specific health care goals (World health Organization, 2015). An example of this would be infection and control policies which health care organizations have to follow to protect and prevent the spread of

To define ‘ideology’ is to consider a particular type of political thought. This involves reflections on questions about the nature, significance and role of the thought, and about which sets of political ideas and arguments should be determined as ideologies. “To study “ideologies’ is to be concerned with analyzing the content of political thought, to be interested in the ideas, doctrines and theories that have been advanced by and within the various ideological traditions” (Heywood 2012, p.4). The term Ideology came from the time of the French revolution by Antoine Destutt de Tracy in 1796. It was referred to as a ‘new science of ideas’, as the years went by, new meanings started to form. Among the meanings that have been associated with ideology include: a political belief system, the ideas of the ruling class, political ideas that embody or articulate class or social interests as well as an all-embracing political doctrine that claims a monopoly of