equalit,diversity and rights in health and social

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Adelina Daniel                                                                                               24/09/2009

Unit2 Equality, Diversity and Rights

P1) Explain the benefits of diversity to society.

Britain itself is a multi cultural country which enables users from any cultural background to gain access to health care services such as hospital. Through this equality is empowered and also encouraged to be put into practice. However the benefit can be split into social and cultural benefit s such as food, language, education and gender.  

Another benefit is that increases knowledge and awareness about the different lifestyle choice of other countries. This prevents misunderstandings and assumptions about the view and understanding of an individual. Therefore it enables an individual’s view of point to be valued and respected. In other words for example a dietician would have to consider culture believe of individual and respect it.

Other benefit of diversity to society is equal opportunity is empowered. This means that allows people to be in control of their own choices. This means that individual as being given the ability to be heard and express themselves, therefore on individual right as been valued. People gain experiences from other philosophies and therapies which suits their needs. For example acupuncture which originates from Chinese.

Food come wide variety according to different cultures. This gives individual the power to experiment with different flavours, e.g. Chinese food. In health care setting such as care home the use of a menu promote equality by allowing an individual to make their on choices which respects their individuality rights.

Language is a benefit to diversity as every language mixture of least more than one language. Other benefit is you can learn new world which has same meaning by in different language with in the health care field language as been used to develop different types of technique such as interpreting and translating for individual who do not have English as their first language or for deaf service users.  Benefit of diversity can help create a fairer and more just society. For example when you’re working in care home you mix with different people from different background you may develop a wider range of social skills because you have met different people, you may learn to be flexible and creative because you can visualize how other people see things.    

P2) Use recognised terminology to explain the importance of promoting equality, recognising diversity and respecting rights in health and social care settings.

One of the responsibilities of a care worker is to help the client to have good access to health and social care. This means respecting individuality and supporting service users to control their own lives, respecting and maintaining equal opportunities, diversity, dignity, and privacy. Care workers must not abuse or neglect the clients, or discriminate against them or colleagues or form inappropriate personal relationship; or condone discrimination. For example care workers are expected to understand why it is important to avoid discriminating against people and to put this into practice when they deal with people from different background. A care workers responsibility is to maintain confidentiality at all times as well as promoting and supporting individuals’ rights, dignity, independence and safety.  

To give service users’ as many options as possible and this could include what time to get up or go to bed or about treatment they receive. They also have right to choice or right of following their religions and choosing their own lifestyle. Dignity and privacy means that care workers most treat the service users with dignity and privacy no matter where the service user’s background is, so that they can feel valued and appreciated. Opening the door when a service user is having shower or when dressing up, this means that you have removed apart of their dignity out of them and you are not giving them the privacy that they disserve.  

 The right to be responded to in conditions of own understanding of dignity and respecting their choice.  Service user’s have the right to be treated equally and without discriminated against them. Client choice should always be respected unless there are very good reasons for breaking down the confidentiality if a service user is in danger or in risk of killing her/ him self, so there confidentiality most be broken to save service user’s life. Services users’ have the right to their information to be confidential at all the time not to be given at any person who is permitted to be knowing about the information no matter what the information is about must be confidential. Treating people equally does not mean that treating everybody the same. It mean to treat people in such a way as to give them equal access to services according to their will and individual needs for each person.

P3) Explain the potential effects of discriminatory practice on those who use health or social care service. 

PHYSICAL EFFECTS: When, a disabled person is being discriminated against, it affects them physically by not eating a healthy diet, doing things that will damage their health and well being. For example; a man has been on a wheel chair for eighteen years and has been discriminated against by verbal, hit, put, kick him by different people that cares for him, so because of this, it will affect him physically like High Blood Pressure, not sleeping well, not eating much and unhealthy diet, he drank a lot of alcohol which will make him have liver breakdown. They might also surfer from malnutrition.

INTELLECTUAL EFFECTS: A disabled person can be intellectually affected, if discriminated against especially with the mind because they will be nothing to stimulate their minds maybe no education, no training and ignorance left out of current affairs. For example, if a disabled person is being discriminated against it will affect their intellect in ways of; thinking about sitting at home not doing any thing, and will start thinking about the bad things that happen and thinking about what   people said to her/him. For example this will affect them on education, knowledge, skills and communication as well.

EMOTIONAL EFFECTS: A disabled person can also be affected emotionally because if people discriminate against them, they are going to feel pain in their hearts and feel that no one loves and cares for them and might end up committing suicide. For example a young woman has being discriminated against because she is disabled, by her carer, friends, and in school. She might think that no one loves, and cares for her, and she might not trust any one else she will start seeing that everyone around her is strangers. For example they might be depressed, stressed, low self-esteem, loss of confidence and self concept.  

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SOCIAL EFFECTS: if people are avoiding walking, talking, caring for them because of the way they are and the person finds out that has just being discriminated against by people around her/him, it will affect their social well-being by not mixing with people or making friends and she/he might end up being lonely without socialising with anyone, e.g. exclusion, withdrawing from public events, and they will not able to form relationships.  Also the service user will become isolated, will affect the service user by becoming violence, dependant, bored and she will develop anti-social behaviours.  

LANGUAGE EFFECTS: when a person or service user is ...

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