The Dumpy hospital is a major local employer with over 3,016 staffs. Over 60% of the staffs live locally which reflect the diversity of the local community. It works closely with Council’s public health team, a local job centre to provide job opportunities for local people. The workforce is highly diverse and comes from a wide range of ethnic groups, backgrounds and religions.…
Unit 2 – Equality, Diversity and Rights within Health and Social Care P4 For this task, I am going to explain how two national initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice. Sex discrimination act 1975…
The Equality Act helps the NHS discriminate the inequalities within the health care profession. Training on The Equality Act is often given with the first session being very in depth and then staff should recieve refresher courses every year. Throughout hospitals there should be wide variety of resources advertising The Equality Act such as posters, leaflets and TV adverts. There are 9 protected characteristics which are: • Age • Disability • Gender (male/female) • Gender reassignment • Marriage and civil partnership • Pregnancy and maternity • Race • Religion or belief • Sexual orientation Equality within the healthcare profession plays a huge importance throughout its structure, the equality act ‘simplifies, strengthens and harmonises’ the current legislation to provide Britain with a new discrimination law which will help protect us as individuals from any unfair treatments and will help promote a fair and equal society in which we live in.…
It is important for everyone working or using the health and social care sector must have the right to be kept safe from danger and harm. There should be a health and safety policy in all setting that states all the actions, rules and regulations that must be followed to keep all those using the service and staff safe and healthy. The right to be allowed access to information about…
This article discussed the social determinants of health inequality in England. The authors point out that social and economic factors, such as material, social, political and cultural conditions, are the most influential determinants of the health care disparities in England. The authors believe that social factors have as much, or even more impact on health as the health care system. Therefore, the actions to improve health and reduce health inequalities should not be limited in the health care sectors. We cannot simply blame the unhealthy individual behaviors that induce poor health.…
Health disparities is a profound difference in healthcare opportunities and services available to the general public. It can be based on certain factors such as, race, social class, economics, and or environmental disadvantages, (Kotch, 2010). Health disparities usually affect people that have experienced obstacles in life because of those certain factors mentioned earlier, and those who have always been discriminated against. Whether it was because of color, gender, sexual preference, or geographic disadvantages, they stepped outside of the norm accepted by society and have to suffer inequalities in health care. 2.Which racial/ethnic groups are more likely to be affected by health disparities?…
Shared Governance The increasingly dire scarcity of professional nurses is a threatening theme in healthcare. In retort to it, more and more establishments are turning to shared governance, a concept introduced into healthcare organizations in the 1970s (Section 1) as an evidence-based system to control the shortage’s harmful effects for example, adverse patient outcomes, high cost of agency staff, and nurses sign-on bonuses to mention a few. What is Shared Governance?…
Equality Act was enacted on 1st of October, 2010 by the government of the UK. This Act covers over 116 different legislations for providing a comprehensive legal framework to safeguard the individual’s rights and provide equal opportunity to everyone. This single Act ensures equal employment accessibility to public and private services, without differentiating the individuals on the basis of protected characteristics such as age, gender, physical or mental disability, marriage or civil partnership, religion, race, maternity or pregnancy and sexual orientation (The Equality Act 2010:Employment implications for the NHS, 2010). This act was brought to ensure consistency in different ways employers and employees are required to create a fair and…
There are several reasons for the occurrence of this phenomenon. Firstly, for nobody trying a reform of the health sector dares to go against what are now widely shared values. To eliminate the disparities in health care will require all the citizens to invest and support. For example, the health care providers, educators, community leaders, policy-makers, scientists, and many other different people. The social determiner about that are at the basic of these existing disparities, the systems must be changed.…
Gender differences also affect the power and control against men and women over the socio-economic consideration of their right of entry to the resources and their status including their roles, types of options and the kind of treatment in the society. Gender has important descriptive control over the different weakness and experiencing mental health problems as well as the different outcome of mental illness. Therefore, importantly gender differences are high occurrence of depression, anxiety and personal problems which has affected 20% of the population with normal income.…
Health Disparities to me can be characterized as separation. It happens when individuals from a specific particular population group can't benefit from the same health coverage as others. Case of the distinctive gatherings can be social groups, gender, race, ethnicity, education, income, disability, and sexual orientation. Health ought to be a privilege for all, and not an honor centered on whether one lives in a provincial or urban territory, or somebody's financial status. Everyone should get the rights to have similar benefits.…
I found this article very interesting because it pointed out some factors that can influence our health outcome. Inequality in health is a serious issue that is threatening our community. This article mentioned some socioeconomic factors such as wealth, income, education, and race as the main causes of a poor health outcome in US. The minority group, such as African-Americans, Latinos, and Native-Americans have the worst health outcome compared to White Americans because they do not have access to health care, plus, the majority live under the poverty guideline. Despite the introduction of Affordable Care Act, that provides health coverage to many Americans, the minority group still has the highest rate of uninsured.…
The process of achieving gender equality is paramount for women in different professions (Besthorn & McMillen, 2002). Women are still faced with the challenge of low wage rates in public and private sectors. Pay inequities exist with limited initiatives to break the glass ceiling for women in the economic industry. The issue of occupational segregation with unfavorable working conditions faces the female gender in many working environments. Legal initiatives have not proved to be effective strategies in dealing with the issue.…
According to the World Health Organization, health is considered a fundamental human right of every human being. However, as time has passed, the gap between health status or the lack thereof has widened between the marginalized and the privileged (Giddings, 2005). Social justice is an important element to incorporate in the nursing profession, as it is a key link to providing holistic health care not only for the patient, but also for the community and globally. Social justice is defined as equal distribution of resources and responsibilities, including wealth, opportunities and privileges in society.…
To avoid the risk of ignorance towards the factors of discrimination and oppression, social workers need to be critically reflective in identifying beliefs in relation to diversity issues and open to challenge following the HCPC code of conduct and TCSW code of ethics. To succeed with ADP and AOP, social workers need to apply good practice principles such as: knowledge of legal framework underpinning equalities (The Equality Act 2010, European Convention of Human Rights 2000, Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and 2005, Care Standards Act 2000, etc.); awareness of personal values and impact on practice; self-reflection; examination and questioning sources of his/her own power and ability to learn from mistakes while promoting social justice and values. In summary, AOP and ADP are direct responses to individual and group experiences of…