Hicks 01/26/2010 Module 1 Health Policymaking in the U.S. by Longest Chapter 1 Discussion Questions 1. Define health. What are the determinants of health in humans? Health is defined as the “state of complete mental‚ physical‚ and social well-being that is necessary to live a meaniful and productive life. Health determinants are the physical‚ behavior along with biological‚ social factors that affects a person’s health. 2. Define public policies and health policies. Public policies is
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Advance Care Planning - Taking the right steps Writing Assignment Introduction Making decisions about your health care needs as well as the choices that you would expect to make if you were not able to are very important reasons for advance care planning. An advance care plan coincides with the medical treatment received. Whether you contract an illness or you are involved in an accident that prevents you from making decisions to treat or not based off the prognosis leaves the decision
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I am writing this report to explain how recent laws promote anti discriminatory practise in an health and social care environment. The first act I am going to talk about is the equality Act 2012.this act promotes anti discriminatory practise as is this act it protects people that are living in the UK from any form of harm or discrimination. These are the 9 characteristic that this act covers: age disability gender reassignment marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity
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Discriminatory Practice in Health and Social Care Malaika Stafrace 331896m P2: List and describe FOUR different discriminatory practices by the staff that might take place in this residential care home. There are many ways how a person can be discriminated the four that I am going to speak about are overt and covert abuse‚ bullying‚ abuse and prejudice. Overt and Covert abuse: Overt discrimination is a discrimination which is clear‚ it is obvious that they doesn’t want to hire or provide
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Why is a communication skill important to have in a health and social care sector? Communication skills are important as different service users may communicate differently to you there are different reason that can stop people from communicating to you. Communication is skills are important as service users are vulnerable so to have effective communication you will be able to put them at ease and reassure them. It sometimes helps to be clear and calm as it helps the service users to understand
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Shawar Ali 10CHL - Level 2 Health and Social Care Unit 3- P1 - 29th February 2016 P1: A description of different forms of verbal and non-verbal communication. Verbal: (what is it and how will you use it in Livingstone Road Residence) ● clear speech - is when you are pronouncing words correctly and sounding the ends of words clearly. In Livingstone Road Residence we would use clear speech with those who have hearing impairments so they can have a better understanding of what I’m saying
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co-ordination of complex physical and mental activities. These activities are often affected by the progressive impairment of memory‚ thinking‚ planning‚ perception‚ organisation‚ communication and skilled movement that are associated with dementia. Consequently‚ eating and drinking may also be affected by environmental issues‚ lack of person-centred care planning‚ physical problems‚ such as pain or swallowing difficulties‚ poor concentration‚ food refusal and side effects of medication. Some people
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responses when dealing with two particular incidents or emergencies in a health or social care setting. M3: Discuss health‚ safety or security concerns arising from a specific incident or emergency in a health or social care setting. D2: Justify responses to a particular incident or emergency in a health or social care setting. Emergency: Earthquake An emergency is an unexpected situation that poses immediate risk to health‚ property or environment. Emergencies require immediate and direct actions
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PRESENTATION AIMED AT SOCIAL CARE WORKERS 163830011176000 Bi. Define direct and indirect discrimination. Direct discrimination is intended by an individual usually due to a person’s background culture‚ personality‚ race‚ disability‚ gender‚ religion‚ sexual orientation and age. Indirect discrimination is when there is an organisation that applies a provision or a practice which disadvantages people of a particular group defined by‚ race‚ disability‚ gender‚ religion‚ sexual orientation and
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(1998) Independent Inquiry into Inequalities and Health‚ London: Stationary Office (3‚ 4) Almgren‚ G (2006) Health care politics‚ policy‚ and services: A social justice analysis. New York: Springer (2‚ 4) Alcock‚ P. (2003) Social Policy in Britain: An Introduction (2nd Ed)‚ Basingstoke: Palgrave (2) Alcock‚ P. (2008) Social Policy in Britain (3rd ed) Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillian (2) Asthana‚ S and Haliday‚ J (2006) What works in tackling health Inequality: Pathways‚ policies and practice through
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