Development of Social Policy
The development of health care policy in the last one hundred years has been shaped by many factors. These factors are social, economic and political and include poverty, de-industrialisation and different political ideologies. Social attitudes changed over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and were the main driving force for the development of health care policies. In the early 1900’s attitudes were changing and people were becoming more aware of social conditions within the country. The Boer War and the two World Wars had shown politicians that the country was poor, unfit and extremely unhealthy. Unemployment was rising and more and more people were becoming dependant on help from the state. At this time we had the political influence of a Liberal Government who’s ideals described as social democratic, would give rise to the health service. Social democratic ideals concerning health care were that care should be available on a needs basis rather than for those who could afford it and should be provided by the state. They believed that all people should be free from poverty. The social democrats thought that it’s people were the government’s responsibility to look after. This ideolog
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Welfare Poverty, Norwich Union, Margaret Thatcher, British Welfare, National Insurance, CARE POLICY, Liberal Government, World Wars, health service, health care, people living, relative poverty, people pay, development health care, free care, development health, social classes, provide care, absolute poverty, private medical insurance, health care policy, poorer social classes, social attitudes changed,
Approximate Word count = 3031
Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)
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