The Heritage Assessment Tool (HAT) is a set of questions used to examine an individual’s ethnic‚ cultural and religious heritage. HAT can be used to understand an individual’s health traditions. The answers to the questionnaire can be used to evaluate how an individual views of health maintenance‚ health protection and health restoration. The author will review three different individuals culture heritage using the HAT. The cultures that are being compare for differences in health traditions of
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MIDLANDS STATE UNIVERSITY BSC HONOURS GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Registration Number R102163M Period Jan-Dec 2012 Department Health Safety and Environment Endorsed By Work Related Learning Supervisor __________________________ Signature Student’s
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Public health has the interests of the public at its core. According to the Department of Health (DoH) (2012) Public health is concerned with prevention and therefore encourages people to ‘stay healthy’ and ‘avoid getting ill’. Health visitors work at the heart of the family to have a positive impact on the future of the child by preventing diseases and identifying any health or social problems early (Carter‚ 2011) A Heath Visitor offers a service available to all families that primarily delivers
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Chronic Disease Risk Assessment Diabetes is a chronic lifelong disease where there are high traces of sugar in the blood. A diabetic individuals pancreas secrets an insufficient amount of insulin or does not use the insulin efficiently. Insulin is a hormone made in the pancreas that enables the body to use glucose for energy. Diabetes is caused by too little insulin‚ resistance to insulin or both. Diabetes is the most common disorder of the human hormone system; there are three forms of diabetes
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How to minimize risk in a Care Home settings In this piece of work I will be explaining how legislation‚ policy and procedures minimize the risks of hazards in a care home. Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 Another potential hazard in the care home is equipment. Staff have to follow the rules and regulations on how to use the equipment correctly‚ to prevent harm to themselves and patients. Employees must take responsibility for the care of their own and others health and safety‚ they should
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Understand health and safety in social care settings. 1.1 legislation relating to general health and safety in a social care setting would be Health and safety at work act‚ Manual handling operations regulations‚ Control of substances hazardous to health regulations RIDDOR Health and safety first aid regulations‚ Management of health and safety at work regulations. 1.2 The main points of the policies and procedures are to ensure everyone follows the same guidelines‚ is safe and to minimise the
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School of Nursing‚ Midwifery and Social Care BN (Adult Nursing) Programme Module Assessment Module NMS08101 Healthy Lives Intake Trimester 2 2012 Submission Date 2nd May 2012 Word Count (Excluding Reference List) 3179 This is my own work‚ and where I have used other sources these are adequately acknowledged in the text. I understand that‚ if plagiarism is discovered‚ disciplinary action will be taken. By completing the front cover of this
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Health and Safety Issues in Organisations 1. Introduction: One of the very unpleasant things is becoming ill or getting hurt at the work place. According to the HSE (2008)‚ more than 200 people lose their lives a year at work in Britain and also 150 000 reported nonfatal injuries each year. In addition‚ around 2 million people suffer from illness that could be made worse by work. One of the biggest mistakes is that any employer could do is to believe that such things rarely happen in unusual
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3 different laws or legislations 1.Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 ‚ also referred to as HASAW or HSW‚ is the primary piece of legislation covering occupational health and safety in the United Kingdom. The Health and Safety Executive is responsible for enforcing the Act and a number of other Acts and Statutory Instruments relevant to the working environment. 2.Health and Social Care Act 2008 The Health and Social Care Act 2008 established the
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Managing health & safety at work (M3.23) The Workplace (Health‚ Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992 covers a wide range of basic health‚ safety and welfare issues and apply to most workplaces. Requirements under these Regulations Employers have a general duty under section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 to ensure‚ so far as is reasonably practicable‚ the health‚ safety and welfare of their employees at work. People in control of non-domestic premises have a duty (under
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