Current Health Care Issues HCS/545 Camille Fuller University of Phoenix The health care industry exist to provide preventative measures‚ diagnose health conditions‚ repair‚ and provide services to improve the quality of life. The cost of health care continues to rise each year. Health care fraud is a factor that continues to plague the health care industry. The affect health care fraud has on hospitals‚ is the increasing cost of medical services. The following research will examine and evaluate
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for a program of health care rationing based on age rests on the assumption that society should allocate its resources efficiently‚ and that age-based rationing represents the most efficient method of resource allocation. Within this context‚ it has been argued that since most of the elderly are not in the work force they do not directly benefit society. Although the elderly‚ it is argued‚ should be provided with basic necessities and comfort‚ the greatest portion of health care resources‚ including
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discrimination that could potentially occur within a health and social care maybe that a member of staff is constantly giving someone less attention and not meeting their needs or even purposely serving them last because they do not agree with their religious beliefs. However covert is a more closed and covered up type of discrimination where it is harder to prove that the person has discriminated against another at all‚ in a health and social care setting an example of this maybe if job applications for
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topic of advocacy in health and social care. Use these articles in conjunction with the module materials to discuss how advocacy can increase the power of service users when engaging with health and social care services. At some point in people’s lives‚ they will find themselves in a situation where they may need to participate in decision-making about their care and this essay looks at how advocacy can increase the power of service users when engaging in health and social care services. It will
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often requires organisational change and some staff are fearful of change and worried about working with people they do not know. Personality clashes sometimes may become issues. It is important when developing teams to recruit staff with the relevant skills and expertise required and new team members should be inducted in a way that they understand the team working principles and what their roles are so they can quickly fit in as part of the team. 1.3 Identify the challenges experienced by established
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Serious care reviews / safe guarding adults Winterbourne view in Bristol summerset abused and neglected vulnerable adults and people with learning difficulties which brought the care home to be investigated. The serious case review says the care home owners put profits before standards. The care staff at the care home bullied and assaulted residents on a daily basis leading to 13 of them being suspended. Three men and one woman had been arrested the police said. A undercover reporter recorded
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Is health a biological or social issue? Changes in society‚ of how people live‚ have ultimately led to a ‘medical model’ of health. Trends of human evolution have led to urbanisation and industrialisation. Beginning over 12000 years ago (Halliday & Davey 2010) when ancestral humans began settlements and left their nomadic lifestyles behind reaching a climax sometime during 2006-2007 when for the first time in human history more people were living in cities and urban environments than in the
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Unit 2 – introduction to personal development in Health‚ Social care or Children’s and Young people’s settings. 1.1 Key Responsibilities: * To support individuals in their home and in the community. * To support service users to ensure that their physical‚ social‚ emotional and intellectual needs are met. * To support the personal development of each service user‚ ensuring that they are treated as an individual with their own unique support needs. * To ensure that the dignity and
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1 Understanding the implications of duty of care. 1.1: Define the term ”Duty of Care”. The definition of “duty of care” is a legal obligation and a requirement to work in a way that offers the best interest of a child‚ young person‚ or in my case vulnerable adult‚ in a way which will not be detrimental to the health‚ safety and wellbeing of that person. 1.2: Describe how the duty of care affects own work role. Carrying out my “duty of care” in accordance with my Role‚ Responsibility and Competence
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Describe how incorrect handling and moving techniques can damage the skin. Identify a range of interventions that can reduce the risk of skin breakdown and pressure sores. Describe the changes to an individual skin conditions that should be reported. It is important to avoid or prevent the vulnerable areas or where sores has already formed. Regularly changing position or moving helps to prevent pressure sores developing in a vulnerable areas or to relieve already existing ones.
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