Taylor Walker
P6 explain appropriate methods of prevention/control for a named communicable and a
named non-communicable disease.
A communicable disease is one that is passed from one person to another through
touch, droplets in the air, food, water or from contaminated objects. Examples of
communicable diseases include salmonella, swine flu, measel, MRSA, tuberculosis and
meningitis.
STI’s - stands for sexually transmitted infections
The first method of the promotion of STI’s is a designated day. On 1st December there
is a worlds aids day to raise awareness, raise money and show support to those living
and those who have died from HIV and aids.To show support and raise awareness,
people will wear a red ribbon, which are available from all Mac stores, NAT stores and
the NAT website. Having a designated day is positive because it’s a day that people can
get involved in world wide.
Another method of the promotion of STI’s is a compulsory sex education curriculum for
high schools and primary schools in the UK. The BBC on 1st March 2017 posted on
their website that sex education will be compulsory in England’s schools and that all the
children from the age of four will be taught about health safety. In this curriculum, it
includes teaching children on how they can prevent contracting and passing STI’s. A
compulsory curriculum is good for health promotion because it shows that the
government are trying to reduce the problem of high STI rates by educating the youth
on how to protect themselves.
Another method of the promotion of STI’s is that nurses from NHS sexual health clinics
will come into high schools to teach how they can recognise, prevent and treat STI’s.
The aim of this is to make the children more aware on STI’s and will hopefully reduce
the amount of STI’s contracted by people within these school’s.
Another way that STI’s are promoted is through the use of C-cards. A C card means that
any person aged 13-24 can access free condoms by using this card in sexual health
clinics, pharmacies youth centres. There is a website ran by the NHS called http://c-
card.areyougettingit.com/Default.aspx . There is information on this website regarding
sexual health and is aimed towards those who are aged 13-24. On this website you can
access a C-card for free condoms, this is to promote the use of condoms, so that when
they are used, STI’s cannot be caught. This website also uses a step by step guide on
how to put on a male condom and can provide free STI testing kit can be sent to you so
that you don’t have to go to a clinic.
1 method of the protection of communicable diseases is that when going to a doctor's
or a sexual health clinic to get contraception, they will give out free condoms. They will
tell the patient that contraception does not prevent STI’s, however condoms can.
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P6 explain appropriate methods of prevention/control for a named communicable and a
named non-communicable disease.
A communicable disease is one that is passed from one person to another through
touch, droplets in the air, food, water or from contaminated objects. Examples of
communicable diseases include salmonella, swine flu, measel, MRSA, tuberculosis and
meningitis.
STI’s - stands for sexually transmitted infections
The first method of the promotion of STI’s is a designated day. On 1st December there
is a worlds aids day to raise awareness, raise money and show support to those living
and those who have died from HIV and aids.To show support and raise awareness,
people will wear a red ribbon, which are available from all Mac stores, NAT stores and
the NAT website. Having a designated day is positive because it’s a day that people can
get involved in world wide.
Another method of the promotion of STI’s is a compulsory sex education curriculum for
high schools and primary schools in the UK. The BBC on 1st March 2017 posted on
their website that sex education will be compulsory in England’s schools and that all the
children from the age of four will be taught about health safety. In this curriculum, it
includes teaching children on how they can prevent contracting and passing STI’s. A
compulsory curriculum is good for health promotion because it shows that the
government are trying to reduce the problem of high STI rates by educating the youth
on how to protect themselves.
Another method of the promotion of STI’s is that nurses from NHS sexual health clinics
will come into high schools to teach how they can recognise, prevent and treat STI’s.
The aim of this is to make the children more aware on STI’s and will hopefully reduce
the amount of STI’s contracted by people within these school’s.
Another way that STI’s are promoted is through the use of C-cards. A C card means that
any person aged 13-24 can access free condoms by using this card in sexual health
clinics, pharmacies youth centres. There is a website ran by the NHS called http://c-
card.areyougettingit.com/Default.aspx . There is information on this website regarding
sexual health and is aimed towards those who are aged 13-24. On this website you can
access a C-card for free condoms, this is to promote the use of condoms, so that when
they are used, STI’s cannot be caught. This website also uses a step by step guide on
how to put on a male condom and can provide free STI testing kit can be sent to you so
that you don’t have to go to a clinic.
1 method of the protection of communicable diseases is that when going to a doctor's
or a sexual health clinic to get contraception, they will give out free condoms. They will
tell the patient that contraception does not prevent STI’s, however condoms can.
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