...COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE Name: Institution Affiliation: Instructor’s Name: Date of Submission: Table of Contents Introduction 4 Task 1 4 LO1 Be able to explore how communication skills are used in health and social care 4 1.1 Explain one relevant theory of communication to health and social care context 4 1.2 Explain types of communication skills used in health and social care context 5 1.3 Discuss methods of dealing with inappropriate interpersonal communication between individuals in health and social care setting 7 1.4 Analyze strategies such as Braille for the visually impaired to support users of health and social care services with specific communication needs 8 Task 2 9 LO2 Understand how various factors influence the communication process in health and social care 9 2.1 Discuss how the communication process is influenced by values and cultural factors 9 2.2 Explain the influences and the impacts of legislations, charters and codes of practice on the communication process in a health and social care setting 10 2.3 Explain the effectiveness of organizational systems and policies in promoting good practice in communication 11 2.4 Discuss ways of improving the communication process in a health and social care setting 12 Task 3 12 LO3 Be able to explore the use of Information and Communication...
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...ARVs Antiretrovirals BBC British Broadcasting Corporation BCC Behaviour Change Communication CFSC Communication for Social Change CSO Civil Society Organisation DFID Department for International Development FAO UN Food and Agricultural Organisation FBOs Faith Based Organisations FHI Family Health International GFATM Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria HDR Human Development Report HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus ICTs Information and communication technologies IEC Information, Education and Communication MAP Multi-country AIDS Programme MDGs Millennium Development Goals NGO Non-governmental Organisation PLWHA People living with HIV and AIDS PMTCT Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission STI Sexually Transmitted Infection TAC Treatment Action Campaign UNAIDS Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS UNESCO UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation USAID United States Agency for International Development VCT Voluntary Counselling and Testing WHO World Health Organization WTO World Trade Organization INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background In developing countries, preventable diseases and premature deaths still inflict a high toll. Inequity of access to basic health services affects distinct regions, communities, and social groups. Under-financing of the health sector in most countries has led to quantitative and qualitative deficiencies in service delivery and to growing gaps in facility...
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...Communication in Health and Social Care Organisations Student Name: Nzuzi Rosaria Artur Student ID: P1019897 Lecturer: Olusegun Ekisola Group: 93B Introduction Communication among service users. Service provider and professional is one of the effort individual look into the health and social care since it has brought a propos medical error, inconvenience with enduring wellbeing and not have of regimented announcement connecting patients, service supplier and professional. According to case study I can detect the require of contact in health care professional, patient contact, and professional relations. To reach the conclusion necessary of this article, there are theory of communication in health concern area context that has to subsist useful, and suggest accomplish to improve the communication method. Apply relevant theories of communication to health and social care contexts. Communication involves interaction between people or organisations. Messages between a sender and receiver, like email or phone. In addition person during the transaction of data, opinion, verbal skill, signal and writings such as verbal and non-verbal. In health and social care, a great deal of communication is interpersonal, that is between two people who are physically present especially between those who are using the services. For example patients, their relatives, friends, and professional health workers and care practitioners. However, while...
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...Communication in Health and Social Care organizations Introducion The purpose of this essay is introduced and analyses the central importance of communication in heath and social care organisation starting with different theories of communication. Also will explore the used communication skills, ways to overcome barriers to meet individual needs because of their many different elements can influence the communication process, and advantages in communication. In addition the last session is about how to use the standard software to support the work, why important, and benefits of information and communication technology in health and social care settings. Exploring the communications skills in health and social care organisations This essay argues that the communication is one of the most important elements of civilisation, this is how people exchange of words and meanings through common understanding. Communication is the way of sending and receiving messages one person to another. (F. C. Lunenburg, 2010) Theories of communication As a result of this fact the communication is based on different theories. Namely one of the main theories is the Behaviourist theory. Lefrancoise (1988:29) argues that have two principal classes and they make use any of these classes of examples for learning. Both classes of behaviourism stated on very close to each other as for simultaneity of stimulus a response events, also stated on the effects of behaviour as for reinforcement...
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...Communications Technology (ICT) is defined as the set of technologies which provide information through devices for communication or application such as wireless networks , television and satellite systems cellular phones, just to name a few. Information and Communication technology is also linked to various services and applications such as video conferencing and distance learning. This essay will therefore be focused on the impact of Information and Communications Technology in the health sector. Benefits of Information and Communications Technology to this sector will also be highlighted as well as some of the concerns that evolve around it and also an emerging ICT trend. The use of health communication strategies and health technologies has improved the health of populations all throughout the world which has enabled persons to understand and use information from the health care sector effectively. One benefit of ICT to the healthcare sector is the building of social support networks. According to Bau, I (2011)“The widespread use of health and communications technologies has the potential to engage patients and health consumers in their own self-care” . Even though there are many persons with the same illness worldwide, not everyone is capable of handling the mental aspect of their illness, the same way. These social support networks provide the help needed and the comfort of knowing that there is in fact, someone there for you. Another benefit of using ICT is the use of electronic...
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...original attachment Page 1 IT and Health Submitted by Lekshmi P Roll no:09810036 MBA 1 ST year Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Page 2 Department of Management Studies,IIT Roorkee Page 2 Abstract This paper tries to present the overview of ICT and the health sector and also tries to identify the key issue and questions in this field .It also mentions the challenges facing the development of ICT implementation in health programmes and activities, and identifies the emerging trends and technologies that will shape ICT tools in the health sector. This paper also tells about the E- health standards existing and the various barriers related to establishing uniform standards. The paper also talks about the New Public Sector Management .And throughout the paper we will discuss some specific cases which will show us exactly how the ICT is changing the face of the health sector in some countries . Page 3 Department of Management Studies,IIT Roorkee Page 3 Contents 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................4 2. ICTs and the health-related MDGs (Millennium Development Goals)...............................................5 3. Using ICTs in the Health sector...........................................................................................................6 3.E-Health Standards .............................
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...known in its abbreviated form as ICT, is a tool that helps in improving communication among businesses and commerce activities in different parts of the world. In fact, ICT is so commonly used in commerce field to communicate various FINANCIAL matters such as acceptance of money, producing receipts and transferring FUNDS that ICT and ecommerce have become almost synonymous terms. ICT creates inroads for better accessibility of all sorts of information for people from all over the world. However, the scope of ICT extends much beyond commerce transactions. It is widely used in education and medical arenas as well. Advanced medical caretechniques, various researches being carried out in medical field in different parts of the world and training are just some of the fields in the medical arena that have largely benefited from the growth of information and communication technology. ICT makes sharing data concerning medical research easy, in addition to myriad other benefits as elucidated in the paragraphs below. How does ICT help in improving medical science and health care ? It is an established fact that information and communication technologies are the backbone of the current information system. Their scope is also extremely vast. Health care facilities have been largely benefited by the evolvement of ICT. Owing to information and communication technologies, the entire world has become a small global village with regard to medical and health care. Further, even within a particular...
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...M1 - In this report, I will be further discussing use of the range of ICT, focusing more so on how and why other electronic systems and software are used in different contexts across both health and social care sectors. There are a range of technologies used in HSC and I will assess the impact and/or important of each. A hardware which is used across all health and social care sectors is the computer; this is the most used hardware in all HSC settings since it enables access to a variety of software. In a in a hospital, for example, a computer is extremely important since it handles medical data and has all records stored onto software on the computer. Without having computers in a hospital, medical bills, prescriptions, medication, details of patients and so on, would have to be written down on paper which takes up an enormous amount of time, and if lost, this means it would result in major problems since there is no extra copy. Therefore, the use of computers are very useful in hospitals because data can be backed up if lost or data can be even printed out which saves time and enables hospitals to run more smoothly. Software, such as Electronic...
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...select the right people for the course, plan an individual’s learning and is the first part of the teaching and learning cycle. It identifies a starting point, the needs of the learners and that they are on the right course. Certificates can be checked to make sure the learners are at the correct level for the course they are applying for. In the health and social care sector other considerations have to be made as the learners will ultimately be working in a caring profession, it is harder to make a character judgement on a learner’s suitability. This process can be subjective and requires the person who is doing the interview to be skilled in making accurate judgement about the type of person and characteristics that are required. Learning skills, knowledge and preferred learning styles need to be assessed before teaching a programme. Why they are on the course, prior knowledge and what the learner’s wish to achieve are important (Gravells and Simpson 2011). Learner’s returning to education may find their previous qualifications are no longer relevant or they may no longer have skills required. For example older learners may not have ICT skills needed for a course, which could prove difficult as word processing and research using the Internet could be essential. When skills like this are lacking, as part of the course or as an enrichment...
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...they ready to adopt health-related ICT? Tsipi Heart ∗ , Efrat Kalderon Department of Industrial Engineering & Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel a r t i c l e Article history: i n f o a b s t r a c t Background: : The proportion of older adults in the population is steadily increasing, causing healthcare costs to rise dramatically. This situation calls for the implementation of healthrelated information and communication technologies (ICT) to assist in providing more costeffective healthcare to the elderly. In order for such a measure to succeed, older adults must be prepared to adopt these technologies. Prior research shows, however, that this population lags behind in ICT adoption, although some believe that this is a temporary phenomenon that will soon change. Objectives: : To assess use by older adults of technology in general and ICT in particular, in order to evaluate their readiness to adopt health-related ICT. Method: : We employed the questionnaire used by Selwyn et al. in 2000 in the UK, as well as a survey instrument used by Morris and Venkatesh, to examine the validity of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) in the context of computer use by older employees. 123 respondents answered the questions via face-to-face interviews, 63 from the US and 60 from Israel. SPSS 17.0 was used for the data analysis. Results: : The results show that although there has been some increase in adoption of modern technologies, including ICT, most of the barriers...
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...Impact of ICTs on MDGs: Improve the Maternal Health Workgroup C|IE MiM – S2 Technology & Innovation Management Dr. Israr Qureshi Contents Introduction: 3 Maternal Health and ICT Usage in India 5 Maternal Health Initiatives with Mobile Components 5 Commonalities and Improvements of Current ICT Solutions 6 How to Leverage ICTs in Accomplishing the MDG 9 Proposed Feasible ICT-Based Solution 10 Conclusion 15 References 18 Introduction: Since the United Nations Millennium Declaration in September 2000, the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of improving maternal health has unfortunately not made the progress it set out to (The United Nations, 2015, a). Many information & communications technology (ICT) improvements towards this initiative have been made since 2000, however there is still a large amount of maternal mortality before, during, and after pregnancy around the world. The maternal health MDG was divided into 2 targets. The first target was to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 75% between 1990 and 2015, however only 43% has been achieved so far (The United Nations, 2015:40-43). This maternal mortality statistic also reflects the eight million babies that die every year between the prenatal stage and the first week of life. Moreover, there is a large yearly amount of children left motherless that are statistically more prone to die during the first years after their mother has died (Unicef.org, 2015). The second target was to reach universal access...
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...[pic] |Edexcel BTEC Level 4 and 5 Higher Nationals in Health |Unit Code |Date Issued: | |and Social Care (QCF) |12 |5 May 2014 | |Unit Title: Physiological Principles of Health and |Student ID No.: |Date of final Submission: | |Social Care Organisation |P1013160 |02 August 2014 | |Assessors: Physiology teaching team. |Internal Verifier Name: Mr Hasa Ram | Human body contains 10 major systems which are responsible of correct function of the body where, the systems are supported by organs which help them to work in perfect harmony. LO1 1.1 Circulatory system: This system is supported by a system of tubes in major organs like heart, lymphatic, blood and blood vessels, by them the body receives all-important ingredients throughout the body and back again. Respiratory system: Is a breathing system where the lungs, diaphragm and airways play the main role in body. The supply of oxygen is transported to the body by breathing in and out and facilitating gas exchange. Digestive system: In this system body stimulate reaction in physical...
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...Unit 21: Nutrition for Health and Social Care Unit code: L/601/2407 QCF Level 3: BTEC Nationals Credit value: 10 Guided learning hours: 60 Aim and purpose This unit aims to give learners an understanding of current thinking on nutritional health particularly relating to users of health and social care services. Learners will then be able to apply this understanding and make recommendations to improve the nutritional health of an individual. Unit introduction This unit builds on learner understanding of the principles introduced in Unit 5: Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology for Health and Social Care. Improvements in the diet of individuals are increasingly being recognised as a significant factor in maintaining, or effecting improvements, in overall health. It is therefore important that people working in the health and social care sectors, or those who are responsible for the wellbeing of others, have a good understanding of nutrition and diet. This unit gives learners an understanding of nutrition from a science-based perspective and of the role that food plays in social contexts. The unit may also provide useful underpinning knowledge for the study of food hygiene and practical culinary skills. Learners will explore concepts of nutrition using the language of nutritional science. Different aspects of nutritional health will be defined and routine ways of measuring this explored. Other aspects of nutritional data will involve describing...
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...Health Management Information Systems in Improving Primary Health Care Delivery Abstract Introduction Health management information systems (HMIS) are implemented in different countries with the expectation that they will contribute to improving primary health care (PHC) delivery. Information generated through these systems is conceived as an imperative for better decision making processes and strengthening accountability arrangements that underpin the delivery of PHC. Methods Electronic databases such as MEDLINE, EMBASE data bases were reviewed for articles published between 1985 to December 2014. MeSH terms used initially for the systematic review were “Health care system” and the search was limited to English-language publications in...
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...with everyone and anyone despite any differences we might have. I am a good communicator who is able to learn quickly and can work well with people at all levels with confidence and determination. My biggest interest is FASHION, I love shopping, buying clothes and looking good. This is why I chose textiles as it has a lot to do with fashion and making clothes. I chose health and social care and sociology as two of my A level subjects because I also like kids and worked in a nursery with babies and kids for my work experience. My last A level I chose is business, I chose business because my aim when in the future is to open my own retail shop that’s got all the latest fashion. Education & Training: September 2007 – Present La Retraite RC Girls School, Atkins road, Clapham park, London SW12 Health &...
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