defined health as: ‘1) the state of being free from illness or injury; 2) a person’s mental or physical conditions’. The same dictionary defined wellbeing as: ‘the state of being comfortable‚ healthy or happy‘. Both health and wellbeing combined together can be defined as the sum of physical‚ mental‚ social and emotional part of a person. These are the ‘resources’ for health according to WHO’s 1986 Ottawa Charter‚ (Earle‚ 2007). It’s also inline with the health definition of the World Health Organisation
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may effectively contribute to working with others and why this is important in health and social care This essay will describe the key policy drivers for collaborative working in health and social care and the importance of effective collaborative working. It will also relate to and discuss my personal experience of collaborative working. Also‚ it will outline the roles of different members within health and social care teams. Finally‚ how my own reflection on personal ability in collaborative working
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P1: Explain the function of research in health and social care Research can be defined as a process of collecting information about a specific topic for a purpose. The importance of research in Health and Social Care is very high. Research can take days‚ months or even years. Its aim is not only to identify in depth information but as well to find out the amount of information that is already known. Through research we can have a better understanding of what are the service user`s needs and find
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Text messaging is another form of communication that help communication to be effective in health and social care settings. However‚ in health and social care setting‚ service providers tend to send lots of reminding text messages via email to remind service users about their appointment with the doctor or the nurses. In the event of text messaging‚ health and social care professionals can use it in the context of both 1-1 and group. So‚ this could be between colleagues and between professional and
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Introduction This unit develops understanding of the values and principles that underpin the practice of all those who work in health and social care. Learners will consider theories and policies that underpin health and social care practice and explore formal and informal mechanisms required to promote good practice by individuals in the workforce‚ including strategies that can influence the performance of others. The aims of this assignment are to measure the outcome of students’ learning in
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Discriminatory Practice in Health and Social Care Malaika Stafrace 331896m P2: List and describe FOUR different discriminatory practices by the staff that might take place in this residential care home. There are many ways how a person can be discriminated the four that I am going to speak about are overt and covert abuse‚ bullying‚ abuse and prejudice. Overt and Covert abuse: Overt discrimination is a discrimination which is clear‚ it is obvious that they doesn’t want to hire or provide
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HEA 9083 LEADERSHIP IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE LEARNING OUTCOMES 1 Good leadership is vitally important in the current climate of health and social care. Leadership skills will be needed to drive forward an ever changing structure and service development as set out in numerous development plans and Government white papers (Department of Health‚ 2003‚ 2008‚ 2009‚ 2011. Leadership Academy‚ 2012). The style of leadership required to carry out such tasks is frequently debated and lamented‚ but it would
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Discrimination is the treating of a person‚ group or family less favourably because of their protected characteristic or because people ‘think’ a person or group may have a protected characteristic. A protected characteristic is a particular quality a person or group possesses which is recognised by law as needing to be protected. There are many different types of discrimination which include: • Direct discrimination - this is treating someone less favourably to their face or in a way that the
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open up. In some health or social care settings‚ such a counselling‚ you may have a mentor whom you see if you
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communicates effectively‚ the challenges will be overcome and will improve the health care outcomes. Effective communication is unambiguous and is needed to inform the patient and parents about the disease‚ treatment‚ complications of the disease. The quality of the process of communication between the patient/family and the physician affects the quality of their collaborative relationship‚ patient behavior‚ and health outcomes. Communication is important for pediatricians because they need the ability
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