patterns and trends in health and illness among different social groupings. Introduction There are many ways to measure patterns of ill health; these include mortality‚ morbidity‚ health events‚ disease incidence‚ disease prevalence and health surveillance. These are; Morbidity Rates is how many individuals suffer from the disease at a given time. Mortality Rates is how many individuals die from suffering from the disease and health events individuals being aware of health issues such as the NHS
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Name : Yolaine N’Guessan Teachers Names : Miss WilliamKofoworade Unit: Unit 6 personal and Professional development Criteria : P7 SOCIAL WORKER What is a Social worker? Social workers work with people to support them through difficult times and ensure that vulnerable people‚ including children and adults are safeguarded from harm. Social workers form relationships with people and assist them to live more successfully within their local communities by helping them find solutions to their problems
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CASE STUDY – APPRAISING THE SECRETARIES AT SWEETWATER UNIVERSITY Rob Winchester‚ newly appointed Vice President for Administrative Affairs at Sweetwater University‚ faced a tough problem shortly after his university career began. Three weeks after he came on board in September‚ Sweetwater’s President Rob’s boss‚ told Rob that one of his first tasks was to improve the appraisal system used to evaluate secretarial and clerical performance at Sweetwater University. Apparently‚ the main difficulty
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BTEC HIGHER NATIONAL (HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE) L5 Unit 2: Principles in Health and Social Care Practice Centre Name: East End College of Business & Computing Centre No: 10562 Learner’s Name: Assessor’s Name: Miss O Okuwobi Assessor’s Signature: Date: 04/02/2013 Date Issued: 04/02/2013 First Submission Date: Final Submission Date Feedback Date: 10/04/13 20/10/13 19/03/2013 (Task 1 and Task 2 23/09/2013 (Task 3 and Task 4) 01/04/2013(Task 1 & 2) 01/10/2013 (Task 3&4) Learner Declaration
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Unit 20: Promoting Health Education- P1 In this unit I am going to explain three different approaches to promoting Health Education the three approaches I am going to explain are Mass Media‚ Community development and Two way Communication. The first approach to promoting Heath Education is Mass Media. -Mass media-any written‚ printed‚ visual‚ electronic‚ auto-visual media developed to reach mass audience and the public. -Audience segmentation-division of a population into a more homogenous
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Cambridge TECHNICALS OCR LEVEL 3 CAMBRIDGE TECHNICAL CERTIFICATE/DIPLOMA IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE SUPPORT USE OF MEDICATION IN SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS M/505/7779 LEVEL 3 UNIT 33 GUIDED LEARNING HOURS: 90 UNIT CREDIT VALUE: 15 PROMOTE POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR OF MEDICATION IN SOCIAL CARE SETTINGS M/505/7779 LEVEL 3 UNIT 33 AIM AND PURPOSE OF THE UNIT In the social care sector practitioners are often responsible for supporting service users with their medication. This support can take a variety of forms
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Unit 8: Promote and Implement Health and Safety in Health and Social Care Unit Code HSC 037 1.1 Legislation that relates to health and safety in a health/social care setting include the following. Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002‚ Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999‚ Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992‚ Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 1.2 The main points of some health and safety policies or procedures such as control
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Explain the function of research in health and social care What is research? Research is a process by which we find answers to questions. Research is systematic and guided by the theory and research of others. Research is finding a better way to do things and only by research can doctors and scientists learn new things to share with humanity. Functions of research The overall function of research is to gather information on subjects wherein people have little knowledge about. It is to develop and
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952502362200Abigail Webb Unit 3 Health‚ Safety and Security P1 Danae Copley 20050608 Abigail Webb Unit 3 Health‚ Safety and Security P1 Danae Copley 20050608 P1 In this assignment I will be explaining the potential health‚ security and safety hazards within a nursery setting. Health Hazards There can be a number of health hazards within a nursery one major hazard being solid nappies which obviously occurs in nurseries because young children attend and most don’t become potty trained
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Unit 306 Promote and Implement health and safety in social care 306.1 – Understand own responsibilities‚ and the responsibilities of others‚ relating to health and safety What it represents: All workers have the right to work in places where risks to their health and safety are properly controlled. Health and Safety is about stopping you getting hurt at work or ill through work. It is the employer’s responsibility to manage Health and Safety but employees must help too. The company I work for
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