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    approved codes of practice to ensure compliance with health and safety legislation. PAGE 2 P 1.2 Explaining the responsibilities for providing welfare facilities on-site. PAGE 4 P 1.3 Explaining the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007. Evaluate the penalties for non-compliance with current health and safety at work legislation. Give at least two examples for easy understanding. PAGE 7 P 2.1 Analyse organizational health and safety policies and procedural documents.

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    caregiver problems‚ they are population level and public health concerns. Philosophical imperative to protect children The Nursing profession has a strong historical foundation in social justice. Social justice is a concept that has been analyzed‚ argued and debated about for decades in the nursing literature‚ but there seems to be relative agreement that nursing has demonstrated a commitment to addressing the social determinants of health‚ to advocating for the underserved and the vulnerable

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    Throughout the semester‚ we have been taught the social construct of race in the social setting and the genetics behind it. Ricardo Ventura Santos’ thesis is based around this same idea. Through experiments and study‚ he shows that the variability in the human race cannot be put into one specific race. Another component of that thesis is that the concept of race can be dependent on how others perceive you‚ and not the country of origin you are from. The author is specifically trying to show the audience

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    Different Branches and Sources of Law under the English Law Law009-Law & contract HND in Quantity surveying and Construction Economics/Construction Management Different Branches and Sources of Law under the English Law Law009-Law & contract HND in Quantity surveying and Construction Economics/Construction Management Devan Isuru Wanniarachchi CSCT2012361 Devan Isuru Wanniarachchi CSCT2012361 Explain nature of law and other fundamental concepts relating to English Law

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    Social and Cultural Factors in Health Social scientists have made significant strides in shedding light on the basic social and cultural structures and processes that influence health. Social and cultural factors influence health by affecting exposure and vulnerability to disease‚ risk-taking behaviors‚ the effectiveness of health promotion efforts‚ and access to‚ availability of‚ and quality of health care. Social and cultural factors also play a role in shaping perceptions of and responses to

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    on the health of Canadians is provided. Increasing poverty is seen to go handin-hand with increasing income inequality. Both poverty and income inequality result from governmental social and economic policy decisions. Poverty is also increased by weakening of social safety nets and other supports. Documentation is provided of the growing incidence of poverty and income inequality and how both of these impact upon the health of Canadians. Poverty directly harms the health of those

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    The world is full of people who needs health care‚ unfortunately the health care has become an area of human life with a lot of inequality between people and social classes‚ many people around the world have fought for the equality in this ambit here we´re going to develop this topic. Health care is a necessity of human life‚ the term public and social health was created around the 16th century; there has always been a preference because of the cost of this service. Anyway in the last two centuries

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    Social determinants of health are factors in the social environment that contribute to or detract from the health of individuals and communities. Social determinants of health have been found to directly increase the burden of heart disease and stroke‚ as well as their risk factors (CDC‚ 2017). In African-Americans the burden of disease is greatly increased‚ as studies have shown. This has led to the increased observed within this population. African-Americans and Cardiovascular Disease and Its

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    trends of health and ill health among different social groupings. I will talk about each pattern and trend in its own paragraph‚ Social class‚ Gender‚ Ethnicity‚ Age and Geographical location. I will talk about the links between these to health issues. I will back these up through the use of evidence such as statistics. I will then conclude what I have found out. Firstly I will talk about each pattern and trend. Social Class Social class helps to deter the reasons for individual’s health and ill

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    Understand health and safety in social care setting Outcome 1 understand the different responsibilities relating to health and safety in social settings 1.1 List legislation relating to general health and safety in social care setting. There are a small number of legal acts relating to the general health and safety in social care. The most important one it seems to me would the health and safety at work act of 1974‚ it ensures that the employer‚ the employee have responsibilities to ensure that a

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