Access to Health and Social Care Services in the UK: Inequitable for Black and Minority Ethnic

Introduction to health
and social care
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Topic of Essay: Access to health and social care services in the UK is not equitable, in relation to
Black and Minority ethnic...............................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

Topic of Essay: Access to health and social care services in the UK is not
equitable, in relation to Black and Minority ethnic.
INTRODUCTION
It has been observed that in most of the healthcare and medical system, black and minority
ethnic population is still not experiencing proper health care and services as many barriers are
acknowledge to access certain services (Bhopal, 2020). The concept of ensuring health equity is
mainly related with leading equal rights along with equally access to health opportunities for all
individuals across all the communities. Thus, the main purpose of current essay is to analysis
about the Access to health and social care services in the UK is not equitable, in relation to Black
and Minority ethnic. The objective of current investigation comprises of analysing about
prevailing discrimination in healthcare sector of UK along with making valid recommendation to
mitigate and overcome the same.
Main Body
The current essay writing is based on the topic of analysing the access to health and
social care services in UK are not equitable especially in relation to Black and minority ethnic. In
UK also, growth of various ethnic communities and black people with their own culture and
traits are facing complex challenges to achieve equitable access to health and social care. The
meaning or definition of minority ethnic basically comprises or indicate a group people who
basically differ in the race or colour or have diverse physical appearance in terms of coming
from a different national, culture or religious origin (Alcindor, Alcindor and Alcindor, 2020).
Thus, the concept of health inequalities is mainly related and associated with the unjust
behaviour and avoidable differences seen in the treatment and health check-up of patients who
belong to a black or minority ethnic group. It has been analysed that a high level of inequality is
prevailing in the socioeconomic framework of UK and discrimination is also present in having
access to health and social care in UK which was confirmed by Public Health outcomes
framework (Lander and Santoro, 2017).
It has been analysed and observed that a high level of social class inequalities is present
with UK which is presenting that access to health and social care services in the UK is not
equitable. For instance: It has been observed that in England, there is a systematic relationship
between deprivation and life expectancy, known as the social gradient in health. Males living in
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