UNDERSTANDING HEALTH AND SAFETY IN SOCIAL CARE SETTING You have been asked to contribute to an induction day for new staff. You are to prepare a presentation about Health and Safety. It must include the following: Ai A list of the key legislation relating to health and safety in a social care setting. Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended 2002). Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 COSHH Reporting of injuries‚ Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences
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I chose an article titled “Decayed and Missing Teeth and Oral-Health-Related-Factors: Predicting Depression in Homeless People”. The article was posted in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research: Volume 71 Issue 2‚ in August of 2011. This study was conducted in Scotland by five experimenters looking to determine the effect of dental health‚ dental anxiety‚ and oral-health-related quality of life upon homeless people and their depression. I chose this article because I found the study to be interesting
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Expenditures. Do increased expenditures = increased health? - Distinguish diff b/n medical services and health - Medical Services: Treatment of disease and Preventative measure‚ Diagnostics‚ Pain Management‚ Counseling - Health: General Well-being. - Narrowing objective - Affects how you will allocate medical resources. - To produce health‚ there are more factors than just medical services **Provide a medical treatment efficiently ≠ produce health efficiently SLIDE 4 Skewed spending
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INTRODUCTION Cervical cancer is a major public health problem‚ as it is the second most common cancer in women world-wide after breast cancer. Cervical cancer is a common type of malignancy accounting for about 6% of all cancers found in women. It is a disease in which cancerous cells develop in the uterine cervix (this is the connecting passage between the uterus and vagina). The human papillomaviruses are the principal cause of most cervical cancers. The peak incidence of cervical cancer occurs
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organization. | HIPAA Rules (1) A major goal of the Privacy Rule is to assure that individuals’ health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality health care and to protect the public ’s health and well-being. (2) The HIPAA Security Rule establishes national standards to protect individuals’ electronic personal health information that is created‚ received‚ used‚ or maintained by a covered entity. The Security Rule
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How to Enter an Allied Health Program-Overview 1. Enroll as a student at OCC getting a student I.D. number. Go to www.orangecoastcollege.edu . Under “Admissions”‚ click on “Apply Now” and follow the instructions. If you are already an OCC student‚ go to #2. Once enrolled‚ there may be additional steps on campus such as matriculation along with English and math testing. 2. Enroll in Allied Health A010‚ Health Occupations. You will apply to a program within this class. You will be required
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" ’Good health implies the achievement of a dynamic balance between individuals or groups and their environment. ’" (Better Health Commission 1986‚ cited in Carey‚ D.‚ Perraton‚ G.; Weston‚ K. 2000: 3). According to the World Health Organisation (WHO)‚ ’health ’ can be defined as the absence of illnesses and a state of mental and social well-being (Carey et al. 2000:3). In other words‚ in order to maintain optimal health‚ it is imperative to have a well-balanced lifestyle which would include a nutritious
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Health Promotion: Primary‚ Secondary‚ and Tertiary Levels Health promotion is composed of three levels. Primary is the initial level of health promotion and prevention of diseases. The next level is secondary which involves early detection of a disease and prompt intervention to prevent the progression of the disease. Tertiary‚ the final level‚ is when a disease is permanent and the goal is to return the individual to the best possible level of functioning (Edelman & Mandle‚ 2010). According
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Public Health Reflective Assignment The following assignment will analyse and reflect on a communication situation which I observed during my practice .To be able to reflect upon this situation I will use Gibbs(1988) reflective model that will allow me to analyse the communication process between health visitor and client .It will also identify importance of reflective practice and will draw out conclusion for my new leadership role as health visitor .Epstein and Hundert(2002) stated reflective
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Health Prevention September 15‚ 2013 Health Prevention Health promotion according to World Health Organization‚ “Is the process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.” In this assignment I have chosen three articles talking about the different health promotions. I will start with my article on teen suicide and primary prevention‚ then stroke
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