Describe 4 examples of discriminatory practice

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P2- Describe 4 examples of discriminatory practice

Age discrimination happens when an individual gets treated differently because of what age they are without justification. There have been some cases regarding older people going to their GPs for help and their GPs not giving the appropriate treatment they need and deserve because they think the problem is down to their age. Such was the case for Jean Austin who went to her GP with a problem about her foot causing her problems  which affected her job , when she saw him he simply put it down to her age  she said he told me to wear sensible shoes - or "treat" myself to a private consultation as a retirement present. "His attitude was: 'Look at your age - you're coming up to 60'.  In the end Jean managed to get an x-ray done which showed a broken bone in her foot. This shows discriminatory practice to an older lady who went to her doctor for some help but the GP automatically putting her problem down to how old she was.                                                                                                   BBC news (2009) NHS Ageism.  (accessed on 10/11/11)

Any individual cannot be discriminated against because of their gender. Under the Gender Equality Duty (2007) they cannot discriminate unfairly due to a person’s gender. Such as not allowing a male nurse practice in a hospital, Andrew Moyhing  a former male student nurse who won a landmark sex discrimination case against the NHS hospitals that refused to let him perform intimate procedures on women patients unless he was accompanied by a female chaperone. “Andrew Moyhing, 29, said he abandoned nursing because he was not allowed to do the job properly in a female-dominated profession.” During training in the NHS hospitals he was denied the opportunity to examine women and to provide cervical smears or electrocardiogram tests that might expose a patient's breasts unless he was chaperoned by a female colleague, which he then complained that female nurses are allowed to examine male clients when there is no chaperone around. This is a prime example of sex discrimination not allowing a man to be as equal  as a female a nurse  when examining ladies when in most cases the clients were not giving the choice of whether they were to have a male nurse practice on them, it was the NHS putting down these rules.                                                                                                                 The guardian (2006) Former male nurse wins sex discrimination case  (accessed on 10/11/11)

The Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against someone who has a disability. A disabled law student is suing Abercrombie & Fitch for discrimination, in which they made her work in the stock room because   her prosthetic arm didn’t fit its public image. Riam Dean was only a couple of days in to her part-time job when she was asked to leave the shop floor “She claims she was told she broke the company's 'Look Policy', which dictates how members of staff are meant to present themselves, the company has been criticized for recruiting only young and beautiful assistants” Riam was never asked if she had a disability and it never and she didn’t feel like she had to as she didn’t want any special treatment or to be treated differently, all Abercrombie & Fitch were interested in was if she had the right image for the shop.                                                                                                               The daily mail(2009) I was banished to the stockroom, says disabled shop girl now suing Abercrombie & Fitch for discrimination  (accessed on 10/11/11)

A Jewish school when to court over racial discrimination. “A court of appeal said earlier this year that the admissions criteria for the Jewish Free School (JFS), in north-west London, was unlawful because it prioritized applications from children with Jewish mothers”. The landmark legal decision, that this amounted to racial discrimination, has divided communities, pitted religious leaders against one another and forced schools to introduce religious practice tests.                                                                           This was caused by a boy who was refused entry because his mother converted to Judaism in a procedure not recognized by the office of the chief rabbi.

The Guardian (2009) Jewish school racial discrimination case goes to Supreme Court  (accessed on 10/11/11)

P3) Describe the potential effects of discrimination on your clients  

Discriminatory practice can have negative effects on people being cared in a health and social care setting. All types of discrimination can lead to a person not using health and social care provision which can lead to poorer health.7

Discrimination can lead to people to people losing their self-worth or self-esteem. Vulnerable people may have low self-esteem before they start using health and social care services. A person with low self-esteem before they start using health and social care services. A person who has low self-esteem will experience negative self-identity, which brings a feeling of worthlessness and depression. The health and social care workers need to ensure that the individual’s self-esteem is maintained or raised, to help the person cope with their situation.

The effects of discrimination on individuals can vary from each individual as everybody’s different the physical effects which can be caused by discrimination is getting headaches more often, loss of appetite or the change in eating habits, the loss or gain of weight, the lack of being able to sleep at night, ulcers and bruises, the also lack of personal hygiene and energy the overall deterioration in the health of the individual.

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The emotional effects of discrimination are the low self-esteem, lack of confidence and being able to talk to other individuals, the feeling of not be wanted by other individuals, insecurity not feeling confident in who you are as a person, becoming withdrawn from everyone, depression/stress/anxiety, the also change in sudden behaviour from an individual they could become violent, lack of co-operation and learned helplessness.

The possible social effects of discrimination on the individual could possibly be that may become isolated due to the lack of friends because of their lack of confidence that individual may have, becoming withdrawn from everyone and ...

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