THEORY ASSIGNMENT
Diabetes
Diabetes is very common among Australians and across the world. 280 Australians develop diabetes every day. This costs the Australian government $14.6 billion annually. There are two types of diabetes. Type one is when you are born with it and your body doesn’t produce enough insulin. Type two is when you are diagnosed with diabetes and if your Father or Mother has it this means you are also likely to have it. Diabetes is most common for people over the age of 45 and over weight. The risk of developing diabetes increases with age.
Each time a person consumes sugar their blood levels rise. This is when insulin is produced to lower your blood pressure. When eating an apple this is fine because of natural sugars. But …show more content…
Gaudium et Spes, 1965, #30
The principle of the common good, to which every aspect of social life must be related if it is to attain its fullest meaning, stems from the dignity, unity and equality of all people. According to its primary and broadly accepted sense, the common good indicates "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily".
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church par. 164
The Common Good
• Actively seeks conditions that enhance the good of all and contributes to the achievement of a common life
• Requires that the poor and marginalised should be the focus of particular concern
• Ensures a response to injustice at local and global levels
• Takes the issue of poverty beyond charitable acts and into the questioning and challenging of social values and structures
• Fosters collaboration rather than hierarchical management, ensuring a cohesive engagement of all involved
• Takes responsibility for the …show more content…
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Solidarity
Solidarity is undoubtedly a Christian virtue ... In the light of faith, solidarity seeks to go beyond itself, to take on the specifically Christian dimension of total gratuity, forgiveness and reconciliation. One's neighbour is then not only a human being with his or her own rights and a fundamental equality with everyone else, but becomes the living image of God the Father, redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ and placed under the permanent action of the Holy Spirit.
John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 1987 #40
Solidarity highlights in a particular way the intrinsic social nature of the human person, the equality of all in dignity and rights and the common path of individuals and peoples towards an ever more committed unity.
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church par. 192
Solidarity
• Acknowledges that our responsibilities to each other cross national, racial, cultural, economic and ideological
Diabetes
Diabetes is very common among Australians and across the world. 280 Australians develop diabetes every day. This costs the Australian government $14.6 billion annually. There are two types of diabetes. Type one is when you are born with it and your body doesn’t produce enough insulin. Type two is when you are diagnosed with diabetes and if your Father or Mother has it this means you are also likely to have it. Diabetes is most common for people over the age of 45 and over weight. The risk of developing diabetes increases with age.
Each time a person consumes sugar their blood levels rise. This is when insulin is produced to lower your blood pressure. When eating an apple this is fine because of natural sugars. But …show more content…
Gaudium et Spes, 1965, #30
The principle of the common good, to which every aspect of social life must be related if it is to attain its fullest meaning, stems from the dignity, unity and equality of all people. According to its primary and broadly accepted sense, the common good indicates "the sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfilment more fully and more easily".
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church par. 164
The Common Good
• Actively seeks conditions that enhance the good of all and contributes to the achievement of a common life
• Requires that the poor and marginalised should be the focus of particular concern
• Ensures a response to injustice at local and global levels
• Takes the issue of poverty beyond charitable acts and into the questioning and challenging of social values and structures
• Fosters collaboration rather than hierarchical management, ensuring a cohesive engagement of all involved
• Takes responsibility for the …show more content…
Top
Solidarity
Solidarity is undoubtedly a Christian virtue ... In the light of faith, solidarity seeks to go beyond itself, to take on the specifically Christian dimension of total gratuity, forgiveness and reconciliation. One's neighbour is then not only a human being with his or her own rights and a fundamental equality with everyone else, but becomes the living image of God the Father, redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ and placed under the permanent action of the Holy Spirit.
John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 1987 #40
Solidarity highlights in a particular way the intrinsic social nature of the human person, the equality of all in dignity and rights and the common path of individuals and peoples towards an ever more committed unity.
Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church par. 192
Solidarity
• Acknowledges that our responsibilities to each other cross national, racial, cultural, economic and ideological