Promote Good Practice in Handling information in Health and Social Care Settings Unit 9 There is legislation in place to ensure the secure handling of information in the health and social care sector. These include the following: Data Protection Act Freedom of Information Act Confidentiality polices(workplace) Human Rights Act 1988 Health and Social Care Act 2012 Mental Capacity Act 2005 The Data Protection Act (1998) Many organisation store large amounts of personal information
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------------------------------------------------- State of matter From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia States of matter in physics are the distinct forms that different phases of matter take on. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid‚ liquid‚ gas‚ and plasma. Further states are possible but do not naturally occur in our environment: Bose–Einstein condensates‚ neutron stars. Other states‚ such as quark-gluon plasmas‚ are believed to be possible. For a complete list of all
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HSC 038 Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care settings Title HSC 038 Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care settings Level 3 Credit value 2 Learning outcomes The learner will: Assessment criteria The learner can: 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 1.2 Summarise
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NUTRITION AND SANITATION: THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL STANDARD FOR FOODPRODUCTS AND ITS IMPLICATION TO THE PRACTICESOF STREET VENDORS IN HANDLING FOOD PRODUCTS THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Nutrition also called nourishment or aliment is the provision‚ tocellsand organisms‚ of the materialsnecessary‚ in the form of food to supportlife(www.wikipedia.org) Many common health problems can be preventedor alleviated with ahealthy diet. Nutrition is an input to and foundation for health and development.
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Stigma and discrimination go hand-in-hand‚ especially when it comes to mental illness. According to the Wisconsin United for Mental Health website‚ “. . . people with a mental illness would rather tell their employers they have committed a petty crime and were in jail than admit to being in a psychiatric hospital.” Herein lays the core effect of stigma associated with mental health issues – discrimination and diminished self-worth. Frequently‚ stigma against people with mental health disorders involves
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Self-stigma has long been an issue and consequence for people suffering from a mental illness‚ despite an increased understanding of diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders‚ negative attitudes and misperceptions about those living with mental disorders are still prominent today (Ward‚ 2014). When individuals are faced with the onset of a mental illness such as schizophrenia‚ stereotypes become more relevant to the self. That is‚ those suffering from the mental illness may choose to incorporate
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Films that portray characters with a mental illness often also portray them in accordance to the stigmas that surround these various disorders. Stigma is often considered to be a negative stereotype‚ where one will judge another on a characteristic ("Stigma and Discrimination - Canadian Mental Health Association‚ Ontario Division"). One film that highlights an overt expression of multitude of stigmas towards mental illness is; Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (CMC)‚ which has five sub-films within the
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Misunderstood:The Negative Effects Of Stigma On The Mentally Ill “Stigma is a social construction that defines people in terms of a distinguishing characteristic or mark and devalues them as a consequence.”(Dinos Socratis) There is an undeniable stigma associated with people that have mental illnesses‚ in society they are treated differently and are even sometimes discriminated. The feeling of being stigmatized often times has negative effects on the lives of those individuals such as “depressive
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Mr.Cooke Anthropology | The Stigma Surrounding Mental Health | | | Theresa | 5/20/2013 | | Who would you consider to be stronger‚ someone who is battling cancer or depression? There is no definite way of telling who is stronger. Most people would say the patient battling cancer because they are suffering from a physical condition and cancer patients are often perceived as hero’s where as people with a mental illness are labeled as being “crazy”. No illness of any kind should
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Stigma is shown throughout many subjects; obesity‚ mental illness and the most powerful and worse stigma; the stigma of AIDS. The stigma of AIDS is clearly shown through a powerful story set in the middle of the African HIV and AIDS pandemic. The novel Chanda’s secrets accurately demonstrates the stigma of AIDS by portraying characters blinded by fear‚ being ashamed‚ feeling sinful‚ and living in denial. The stigma is shown through a maturing young girl’s point of view‚ seeing others and as well
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