Both the assessment of how 'healthy' an individual country is, and how patterns of health and provision of services differ between countries, has been discussed within the module.

For example, within the UK, life expectancy for men in a deprived district such as Glasgow is 12 years less than for men in prosperous Surrey. And the type of services and approaches to welfare provision differ greatly between, say, the USA and Sweden. Developed and developing countries also have very noticeable underlying differences with regard to public health and provision.

Using relevant examples from at least 3 countries or regions, critically examine how social policy influences and explains:

(i) health within countries

(ii) health between countries