...Care Practice and Provision Activity 1 (A01) Care practice and provision is complex and ever changing. Health and social services have been traditionally provided by three sectors, but there is technically an forth sector, informal care is also essential to the provision of care, so there are four sectors providing care. In this portfolio I am going to be looking at how care practice and provision can affect people, what it means to them and what other help and support may be out there that they are entitled to which they don’t know about. I am going to be looking at the demographic influences of Buckinghamshire. I will be looking at the age of an area and how many people have disabilities in that area. The reason I have chosen Buckinghamshire is because it the county in which I live so I will hopefully find it easy to collect information that I will need. I also chose Buckinghamshire as Stoke Mandeville is in it. Stoke Mandeville Hospital has a specialist spinal unit within it and caters extremely well for people who are disabled. Often if people have spinal injuries or other injuries that could lead to them becoming disabled then they will be transferred to Stoke Mandeville as this is where they will receive the best possible treatment. These services all link in to help make Care Practice and Provision run smoothly and effectively: Public Services this sector includes the NHS which provides services is hospitals and in the local community. Anyone UK citizen...
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...A01 (a)-COMMUNICATION Communication is a major part in health and social care settings as working with people involves interaction, it is so vital as it entitles people to exchange thought through communication , allows problem solving, establishing relationships, speech, connecting with one another, signals or clarifying issues. There are four main types of communication, oral, written, computerised and special communication which are used in care settings. I am going to explain in great detail the different types of communication in the nursery and GP care settings and explain the purpose of each type of communication. Oral communication involves using words and sentences such as having a meaningful conversation. In oral communication speaking is required and is pivotal for clarifying issues or to build trust. Care workers need to have highly developed social skills in order to work with a wide range of emotional needs that service users will have in a nursery or GP practice. Workers in the nursery or GP practise will have to use face to face and oral communication together with a range of body language messages to help with the verbal communication so therefore it is understood by people. In the nursery care setting oral communication is the most effective and the most easiest way of communication as the child is only from 0-5 years of age, and so writing instructions to them is of no use as a child won’t be capable of reading it and therefore will not understand it. Oral...
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...A01: Care value base The care value base is: a code of conduct that is produced to allow people in the health and social care sectors to provide a professional and specialized standard of care, to clients involved in the health and social care sector. The care value base consists of 5 main segments, when these segments are correctly fulfilled only then is the best standard of care given to clients accessing the health care service. The 5 segments are based around: confidentiality, communicating effectively, abiding by anti-discriminatory practises, empowering those under authority and respecting the choices individuals make as well as their identity, beliefs and culture. This report is based on Greenfield primary school, please note the primary school name has been changed for confidentiality purposes. Confidentiality Confidentiality is maintaining information in a protected and regulated view this allows the information to be kept highly private, therefore meaning information can only be seen by those who provide the care. Confidentiality can be breached if a particular person is at risk or poses as a risk to themselves or others around them. If confidentiality is not breached in such circumstances then the danger and risk may escalate leading to fatality, a recent example in the media includes “The story of four year old Daniel Pelka” (Holt, A (2013). The Data protection Act 1998 This act legally enforces information about clients is stored safely and securely and used...
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...backlash of criticism from health experts, transportation officials, government leaders, and opponents of drunken driving.” (Nancy) I think lowering drinking age will cause more problems. Because Lowering-drinking age to 18 not only let teenagers even younger than 18 will get alcohol, but also raises the number of drunk-driving accidents. We also cannot ignore this action will increase the number of problem cause by alcohol. All those things happen in our daily life and warning us that drinking age should not be lowered to 18. Lower drinking age is just like give the group of underage drinking teenagers official IDs instead of fake ones. And they will become much more reckless, even those one who used to care about the law so didn’t drink will soon become drunk. “A study done in 2003-4 at Johns Hopkins tested the incidence of binge drinking (as that term is defined in the Wechsler studies) in the age group just below the legal age in various countries. David Jernigan, who directed the study, used Wechsler’s survey methods to quantify the percentage of 16-18 year-olds who reported having become seriously drunk during the 30 days prior to their taking the survey. The evidence is being construed as proof that no matter what the legal age, persons just below it are disposed to drink to excess.” (Nancy) The inference seems to be that lowering the legal age also lowers the binge-drinking age. William DeJong, a professor at Boston University's School of Public Health and a former director...
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...It is hard to imagine life without health insurance. If you have any type of medical problem that requires attention, and you have appropriate health care insurance, you can be cared for in the finest of private hospitals. You can get great treatment and your ailments, depending on the severity, can be treated as soon as possible. Doctors, physicians and surgeons are willing to put out a big effort if they know that they are dealing with patients who are insured and have the money to go under extensive medical treatment. But imagine life without such luxuries. For example, what happens if a relative requires much needed surgery, but does not have health insurance to cover the procedure? What happens if a lack of medical insurance prevents you or your family from seeing a doctor, which could result in health problems that had not been identified but could have been treated before they became life threatening? These scenarios may seem far-fetched, but these types of situations happen to people who lack health coverage everyday. There is a true story about a patient who was insured and diagnosed with treatable cervical cancer. Unfortunately, she lost her job and with it her insurance. She was then unable to see her private doctor, and was turned away from other hospitals because ?cancer treatment is not considered an emergency in a patient who can?t pay? (?Help for D.C.?s Uninsured?). The woman later died at her home without ever being treated. This example raises the question, since...
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...Unit F912: Promoting Good Health Health & Social Care AS Contents Page A01 – Pages 3 - 13 A02 - A03 – A04 – Promoting good health This unit explores what is good health, the models, the range of lifestyle choices and societal factors which influence health and well-being. Health and well-being are not only affected by an individual’s lifestyle choices (e.g. smoking, eating unhealthy ‘fatty food), but also by societal and environmental issues (e.g. living near a motorway – high pollution levels) Government policies and legislation have an imperative part to play in the promotion of good health, as the introduction on screening programmes (e.g. cervical smear test, antenatal screening etc.); which prevent ill health, has been an incredible and useful tool. Health promoters also have a significant role to play in helping individual’s using services to make the right decision about their health. As their choice of presentation approach can make or damage a health promotion campaign. Further, health promoters need to take into account the presentation methods, and to ensure that they have been chosen well to confirm that the message is successfully put over to the individual to whom it is directed. What is ‘health’? The Worlds Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. However, others may simply define health as the absence of illness,...
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...Juan Colon GE217 Composition II Mr. Cardew Final Paper August 30, 2012 Monsanto and Genetically Modified Foods Monsanto is an agricultural biotech corporate giant that genetically modifies animals and crop seeds. On their website, they come across a deeply committed humanitarian organization that provides an ecologically sustainable answer to global hunger and malnutrition. The sad reality is that Monsanto is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and perhaps one of the most unethical corporate giants in the world today. I will argue that Monsanto is on a power trip, and that they have a hidden agenda that has nothing to do with compassion, ecology or human hunger, and everything to do with greed. In the following paragraphs, I will provide a brief history of Monsanto. Then I will examine some of the promises made in their marketing propaganda, and provide evidence that these promises are little more than blatant lies. Monsanto started out in 1901 developing a highly controversial artificial sweetener called saccharine. Monsanto eventually shifted their focus to genetically modified plants and animals. They are still a major chemical production corporation, developing and marketing Roundup and several other herbicides, Bovine Growth Hormone, and genetically modified seeds. Among the most widely recognized of their genetically modified products include corn, soy and canola. These seeds have a gene inserted that makes them resistant to Monsanto's own herbicide called Roundup. These...
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...communicate effectively with others and transmit care values during an interaction; however for my group activity my aim is also to effectively work as a team to succeed in building a snowman and my one-to-one interaction is to cheer up an elderly client. I will then explain what I did successfully, how I managed to remove any potential barriers and relate this to other work settings. I will also evaluate how I could improve my communication for next time. My report consist of two interactions; one with an elderly woman in a Care Home named Jean, and another with a group of 5 young children at a day care Nursery. For each interaction I have separately analysed my communication skills. To ensure I promoted all care values, with parental permission from the Nursery children, I can refer to them by their first name only to keep confidentiality in this report. I have changed Jean’s name to also acknowledge her wishes to be kept confidential. METHOD I collected the primary evidence for my interaction through taking part in a one to one interaction with an elderly woman who lived in a care home and a group interview of 5 children aged between 4 and 5 in a private Nursery. To take part in these interactions I had to gather my evidence independently and using my initiative. My interactions were organised through work experience placements I did. My aim’s of the interactions were to communicate effectively with others and transmit care values during an conversation; however for my...
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...| Contents | Page | 1.0 | Executive Summary | 1 | 2.0 | Marketing Aspect of the Disease / Product Function | 2-3 | | 2.1 | Definition (ICD code) | | | 2.2 | Epidemiology | | | 2.3 | Diagnosis | | | 2.4 | Treatment | | | 2.2 | Environmental factors | | 3.0 | Product Background | 3-4 | 4.0 | Target Market | 4-5 | | 4.1 | Market Definition | | | 4.2 | Current Market Value | | | 4.3 | Market Potential | | | 4.4 | Social and Regulatory Aspects | | | 4.5 | Market Research Results | | 5.0 | Competitive Environment | 5-7 | | 5.1 | Competing Product and Product Revenues | | | 5.2 | Companies and Relevant Portfolios | | | 5.3 | Marketing And Sales Activities | | 6.0 | SWOT Analysis | 7-8 | | 6.1 | Internal Strength | | | 6.2 | Internal Weaknesses | | | 6.3 | External Opportunities | | | 6.1 | External Threats | | 7.0 | Commercial Goals and Financial Forecast | 8-10 | | 7.1 | Qualitative Objectives | | | 7.2 | Quantitative Objectives | | 8.0 | Budget : Planned Marketing & Sales Investment | 10-11 | 9.0 | Product story and Unique Selling Proposition | 11 | 10.0 | Branding Guidelines – Logo, Colours, Layout and Typography | 12 | 11.012.0 | Target groupsInternal Communication Program | 12-13 13-14 | 13.0 | External Communication | 14-15 | 14.015.0 | PackagingPricing Strategy | 15-16 16-17 | 16.017.018.0 | Cooperation and strategic alliances Life Cycle Management Key Success...
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...THE LAW ON ASSISTED SUICIDE On July 26, 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld decisions in New York and Washington state that criminalized assisted suicide. These decisions overturned rulings in the 2nd and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeal which struck down state statutes banning physician-assisted suicide. Those courts had found that the statutes, which prohibited doctors from prescribing lethal medication to competent, terminally ill adults, violated the 14th Amendment. In striking the appellate decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court found that there was no constitutional "right to die," but left it to individual states to enact legislation permitting or prohibiting physician-assisted suicide. (The full text of these decisions, plus reports and commentary, can be found at the Washinton Post web site.) As of April 1999, physician-assisted suicide is illegal in all but a handful of states. Over thirty states have enacted statutes prohibiting assisted suicide, and of those that do not have statutes, a number of them arguably prohibit it through common law. In Michigan, Jack Kevorkian was initially charged with violating the state statute, in addition to first-degree murder and delivering a controlled substance without a license. The assisted suicide charge was dropped, however, and he was eventually convicted of second degree murder and delivering a controlled substance without a license. Only one state, Oregon, has legalized assisted suicide. The Oregon statute...
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...Introduction Topic Overview In recent years, illegal immigration has been the topic of public discourse (Wucker, 2007). The public discourse is mainly due to the sensitivity of the issue of illegal immigration and the burden attributable to the resulting population explosion is placing on the governments and citizens as well as legal residents of states and counties in the United States (Martin, 2008). The recent enforcement of U. S. Department of Homeland Security (U.S. DHS) laws, which started in 2006, is working (Camarota & Jensenius, 2008) but the enforcement is not reducing illegal immigration, especially on the United States’ Southern border (Ewing, 2008). Baker et al, in a U. S. Department of Homeland Security report show, from 2006 to 2007 the illegal immigrant population increased by 4% (Baker, Hoefer, & Rytina, 2008). Illegal immigrant population is declining because of border enforcement of immigration laws (Camarota & Jensenius, 2008). The loss of jobs due to economic downturn in the country can also account for declining illegal immigrant population (Grayson, 2008). Despite the declining population of illegal immigrants due to enforcement, illegal immigration is still a challenge (Ewing, 2008). The persistence of illegal immigration on the border implies that the countermeasures in use in fighting illegal immigration on the borders appear to need revisions (Ewing, 2008). Statement of the Research Problem Statement of the Problem According to a report by US...
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...Health and Social Care Activities for health and well being Introduction The unit requires me to manage an activity in a health and social care environment which will benefit an individual or a small group of service users, the activity will allow me to work on my communication skills with contrasting age groups. With the activities I have designed I would have to take into account the physical, intellectual, social and emotional side of each child. For this I will be visiting Woodend Preschool where I will be holding an activity to evaluate the children's skills and assessing how well we communicate between each other, by the way our body language comes across. Before making my final decision about the activity, I will have to take into consideration the skills each child has, the facilities, safety implications, equipment and time. Also I have to plan, improve and evaluate my activity; I have also made samples for each of my activities. The preschool and early school years are also full of changes, from three to five the child’s motor skills, language, thinking and social development change dramatically. A01- Suitable Activities and Reasons for Choice I have created a range of activities that would be suitable for Pre-schoolers aged between three to four, at this point in their life the child's development is important, it is a time where the child’s world will be dominated by fantasy and vivid imagination. Hopefully the children will be able move around confidently...
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...Global Social Policy http://gsp.sagepub.com/ 'Trade policy, not morals or health policy': The US Trade Representative, tobacco companies and market liberalization in Thailand Ross MacKenzie and Jeff Collin Global Social Policy 2012 12: 149 DOI: 10.1177/1468018112443686 The online version of this article can be found at: http://gsp.sagepub.com/content/12/2/149 Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com Additional services and information for Global Social Policy can be found at: Email Alerts: http://gsp.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://gsp.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav Citations: http://gsp.sagepub.com/content/12/2/149.refs.html >> Version of Record - Aug 16, 2012 What is This? Downloaded from gsp.sagepub.com at Taylor's University on November 5, 2012 Article gsp Global Social Policy 12(2) 149–172 © The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permission: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1468018112443686 gsp.sagepub.com ‘Trade policy, not morals or health policy’:The US Trade Representative, tobacco companies and market liberalization in Thailand Ross MacKenzie Jeff Collin Macquarie University, Australia University of Edinburgh, UK Abstract The enforced opening of Thailand’s cigarette market to imports in 1990 has become a cause celebre in debates about the social and health impacts of trade agreements. At the instigation...
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...the Study Films, generally, serve as a tool for national integration and development. Major types of film are home video, which develop, until now, from what is formerly known as cinema or stage play/drama. As part of mass media, home videos play the important roles of informing, educating, entertaining and transmitting social heritage. Through their educational role, however, home videos concern themselves with evolving a better society by exposing societal ill and wrongs. Since the emergence of home videos, at the turn of the twenty-first century the films industries, and both male and female actors in Nigeria, Nollywood, have considerably influenced the habits, belief systems, style of dressing and other behavioural idiosyncrasies on many Nigerian youths. Thus, one can say, however, that the emergence of home videos have helped to promote the Nigerian cultural heritage; aside this, it has awaken in many youths the Nigerian culture that was once lost during the colonial period. There are also negative effects of home videos on audiences. However, there have been cases where home videos are criticized to the cause for some societal ills. Social critics, who believes in this school of thought says that some antisocial behaviours like violence and extravagant life that many films portrays in their content perceptibly affect the behavior of the audience. Nonetheless, all these sum up to mean that home videos have both positive and negative influences on youth morality...
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...Genetically Modified Organisms Technology, Society, and Culture Table of Contents Technical Aspect of GMO by Chad Dookie Page 3 Moral and Ethical Aspect of GMO by Ronald Claude Page 7 Cultural and Legal Aspect of GMO by Evangelina Ramirez Page 14 Environmental Issues of GMO by Donovan Collins Page 23 References Page 32 Technical Aspect of GMO by Chad Dookie Description of GMOs and the associated science Most of the populations that do shopping in the groceries to buy food for their family are not aware of the “naturalness” of the food. Groceries sell items such as; cotton seeds, rice, soy, sugar beets, yeast, cassava, papaya, bananas, food flavoring, potatoes, corn, tomatoes, squash, oils, beef, pork, chicken, salmon, peas, alfalfa, and honey. Notice that most of the items listed either came from a plant or an animal. Those are the top 20 grocery items that have been genetically modified. What are genetically modified organisms? A genetically modified organism is any living thing that has had their DNA tampered with. This can be mutating, removing, or adding genetic material into the organism. All of the items listed in paragraph one has had their DNA tampered with. Most times when people talk about genetically modified organisms, they mostly refer to plants that are genetically modified. You may be wondering how the animals listed are considered genetically modified. This is because scientists modify the plants that are being...
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