Sunday, August 14, 2011

Austerity measures are destroying the recovery.

But, then Cameron was like the USA Tea Baggers.  


Conservative and arriving to power in 2010.


Remember the study that came out last week about how children from chronic abuse circumstances resulted in greater medical troubles as they grew into adulthood and throughout their life?


I found something.  


The concept has been around a while.  It is called, "The Inverse Care Law."  Imagine that, laws of medicine as well as science, but, I suppose that is the same thing after all.


What the "Inverse Care Law" states is that the less people USE their medical capacity in a country the less 'expert' it becomes and therefore, the more it is used the more expert it becomes.  Interesting, isn't it?  If more of the population is exposed to quality health care and preventive care the healthier the country will be.  Hm.  A healthy workforce by which 'abuse' at any age is 'realized' in examinations by physicians and medical personnel.  


...Compared with patients in least deprived areas, (click title to entry - thank you) patients in the most deprived areas had a greater number of psychological problems, more long-term illness, more multimorbidity, and more chronic health problems. Access to care generally took longer, and satisfaction with access was significantly lower in the most deprived areas. Patients in the most deprived areas had more problems to discuss (especially psychosocial), yet clinicalencounter length was generally shorter. GP stress was higher and patient enablement was lower in encounters dealing with psychosocial problems in the most deprived areas. Variation in patient enablement between GPs was related to both GP empathy and severity of deprivation.


CONCLUSIONS The increased burden of ill health and multimorbidity in poor communities results in high demands on clinical encounters in primary care. Poorer access, less time, higher GP stress, and lower patient enablement are some of the ways that the inverse care law continues to operate within the NHS and confounds attempts to narrow health inequalities.