Unit 9 Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care 1. Understand requirements for handling information in health and social care settings 1.1 Identify legislation and codes of practice that relate to handling information in health and social care There are several legislations and codes of practice that relates to handling information. Data protection Act 2008 is a law that protects personal privacy and upholds individuals rights. This Act gives rights
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Grace Kirigo Ngure 1301700 08NUR13 Health promotion is the process which enables people to gain control over their health determinants in order to improve their health and thereby be able to live an active and productive life. The ultimate objective of health promotion activities is to create prerequisites for a good life which includes physical‚ mental‚ social and spiritual health and considers people in their social and cultural context taking into account the material and economical resources
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What is distinguishing factors between the the contemporary views of health promotion versus the historical view? How and why did these difference develop? Historical health promotion dealt with protecting the community from infectious diseases‚ providing safe water and reducing environmental threats which was normally done by the Government or organizations like World health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).Emphasis were on mass vaccination against preventable
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Cytoskeleton. The rest need a higher resolution to be visible to the naked eye‚ thus the electron microscope is used. KEY WORDS AND DEFINITIONS - Key Word | Definition | Molecule | A group of atoms bonded together‚ representing the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical compound that can take part in a chemical reaction | Permeable | (of a material or membrane) Allowing liquids or gases to pass through it | Concentration | The amount of substance present. | High concentration | There is a lot of
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Importance of Health Promotion Health of an individual can be defined as a state free of illness‚ having a healthy behavior and a good state of mind. Health care industry is now focused on preventing illness by promoting wellness enhancing strategies which nurses have an important role to play as care provider and educator. Levels of preventive care are primary prevention – health education‚ immunization and fitness activities‚ secondary prevention – diagnosis and prompt intervention and tertiary
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Unit 9 The principles of infection prevention and control. 1.1 As an employee it is our responsibility to take all precautionary measures to prevent and control the spread of infection in the workplace; this means working safely to protect myself‚ other members of staff‚ the patients and all other individuals from infection. As a health worker we should; Maintain high standards of personal health and hygiene‚ where possible we should avoid coming in to contact with pathogens‚ such as
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DECLARATION 1 MAIN ISSUE 1 2 RESEARCH CRITERIA 1 3 EXTENT 1 4 POPULATION 1-2 5 ASSUMPTIONS AND SUB-ISSUES 2 6 GOAL AND OBJECTIVES 2 7 RESEARCH QUESTIONS 2-3 8 THEORECTICAL APPROACH 3-4 9 RESEARCH DESIGN 4 10 DATA-COLLECTION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES 4-5 10.1 The research method 4-5 10.2 Role of the researcher 5 10.3 Levels of measurement 5 10.4 Sampling method 5 10.5 Sampling size 5-6 10.6 Data-collection
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Health Promotion Obesity as a side effect in medication World Health Organisation (WHO 2012) states that health promotion is about empowering individuals to take control of their own health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behaviour towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. The author will be focusing on a lady with a long mental health problems and has recently had medication changed to Clozapine; as a result she has gradually gained a lot of weight. The patient
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Research report: November 2010 Creative clusters and innovation Putting creativity on the map Caroline Chapain‚ Phil Cooke‚ Lisa De Propris‚ Stewart MacNeill and Juan Mateos-Garcia Disclaimer This work contains statistical data from ONS which is Crown copyright and reproduced with the permission of the controller of HMSO and Queen’s Printer for Scotland. The use of the ONS statistical data in this work does not imply the endorsement of the ONS in relation to the interpretation or analysis
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Health Promotion: Giving up Smoking in Pregnancy Introduction The object of this assignment is to critically appraise a health promotion initiative related to midwifery practice. The initiative chosen is a NHS Health Scotland leaflet entitled ’Smoking: giving up during pregnancy: a guide for pregnant women who want to stop smoking’ (NHS Health Scotland 2003). It will be referred to as the ’initiative’ or the ’leaflet’ throughout this assignment. The World Health Organisation (WHO) identified that
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