Unit 2: Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care Assessment Criteria: Explain the Concept of Equality, Diversity and Rights in Relation to Health and Social Care. Describe Discriminatory Practise in Health and Social Care. Describe the Potential Effects of Discriminatory Practice on Those Who Use Health or Social Care Services. Assess the Effects on Those Using the Service of Three Discriminatory Practices in Health and Social Care Settings. Equality: - The term equality according
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Fairfax Metropolitan Hospital: The Candidate Fairfax Metropolitan Hospital: The Candidate M. June Allard Assumption College Worcester State College Professor Emerita Fairfax Metropolitan Hospital is a moderately sized teaching hospital committed to quality care from a qualified staff. The hospital currently suffers from a lack of diversity among its staff, however—a glaring fault in nearly every unit at the hospital and one pointed out by several accrediting agencies. The
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it reduces their concerns about the illness. We also discussed in small groups the definition of stereotype, prejudice discrimination and how they are connection between these words. Moreover in the group discussion we discussed how can easy lead to other, for instance, is very easy to certain group to be stereotype which can results poor care to their patients which leads be prejudice and then into discrimination. Therefore The Equality Act (2010) is law to protect people and is against the law
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Dangers and Consequences of Stereotyping Labels can be very harmful. A big problem with labelling, and stereotypes is that they can be incorrect. Anytime someone groups individuals or races together, and makes an assumption about them without knowing them, is a form of stereotyping. In Padma Venkatraman’s Climbing the Stairs, the author shows moments where class, race, and gender stereotyping are present. Stereotypes are very dangerous things because they remove the true identity of people, and
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investigators, a couple of teenage robbers, a DA and his wife, an Arab family, a Hispanic locksmith and his family, and an affluent African American movie director and his wife. The story revolves around how all of these people have deeply ingrained prejudices and how they themselves could suffer from discrimination. Theme and depiction Discrimination and stereotyping of people sometimes happen as a result of reinforcement of the behavior of the people being discriminatory themselves. The
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Redrawing Lines of Understanding in America Daryl L. White PHI103: Informal Logic Dr. Pamela Klem March 26, 2012 Redrawing Lines of Understanding in America If you are in the age group of fifty and below, it is probably safe to assume that we all belong to generations that were taught tolerance and acceptance. While these lessons may be different in each generation, each has had to overcome prejudiced views of any particular group of people.
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in no to believe you are this way. By stereotyping we infer that a person has a whole range of characteristics and abilities that we assume all members of that group have. Stereotypes lead to social categorization which is one of the reasons for prejudice attitudes such as them and us mentality which leads to in-groups and out-groups. When we stereotype people (putting them in groups/categories) we ignore differences between individuals;
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Bryant Smith February 7, 2012 Cultural Diversity Crash Movie Paper The movie Crash is a drama film that shows you several life experiences of different people living in Los Angeles. All the characters in the film are somehow inter-related to one another. A police detective who mother is strung out on drugs and has a brother who likes to kill, two car thieves, a white district attorney, a racist cop, a black Hollywood director, a full Persian descent father, and a Hispanic locksmith are all
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just as racism and sexism accomplish this with skin color and gender” (Leon-Guerrero, 2014). This issue of ageism is undoubtedly a social problem, and affects us all differently. The fact that ageism is one of the most socially condoned forms of prejudice against a certain group of people is simply unacceptable (Leon-Guerrero, 2014). Too many people look at the “old generation” is not being fit, or able to take care of themselves, therefore creating a burden among the rest of the “young” generation
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whether or not the evidence is relevant. If it is the court must determine if the evidence belongs to one of the categories of evidence that people presume to be inherently prejudicial, like gruesome photographs, because it has a risk of unfair prejudice. The first thing to consider is if the photograph is color or black and white, color photos are usually more upsetting because people can see more vivid images, like blood, bruises and cuts. The second is if the photograph has been enlarged or is
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