Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care

Contemporary issues in
health and social care

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
CASE STUDY.................................................................................................................................4
FACTORS RELATED TO THIS HEALTH ISSUE.......................................................................5
ANALYSIS OF SASHA’S HEALTH CONDITION......................................................................5
SERVICE PROVISION IN LIGHT OF THIS ISSUE....................................................................5
ADDRESSING THE ISSUES.........................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
The term health and social care service means the services which are provided by health and
social care providers. Through this term evaluation of healthcare profession as well as
infrastructure and private sector are done. There are many issues which are faced by social and
healthcare. In order to develop an effective strategy for healthcare depth understanding of
healthcare policies is required (Germov, 2019). There are a number of such health issues arising
in today’s world. Issues such as female genital mutilation are of important public concern which
should be given priority and better system should be used for them to cure perfectly. It is
important to give efficient and effective system of nursing which may have a better emphasis on
those facing this issue. It is important to train the nurses in the nursing care so that patients can
be effectively managed.
In the following report the health issue arises is female genital mutilation. This comprises of
the procedure in which partial or total removal of female genitalia or any other injury to female
organs are provided for non-medical reasons. It is often seen that these practices are carried out
in many regions due to traditional beliefs of people. This issue usually happens at various events
in many communities such as child births. It is believed by world health organisation that this
procedure is safe if it is carried out medically it is strongly urged by WHO to take proper
healthcare provisions while performing it or it is better to ignore female genital mutilation.
This process of female genital mutilation is recognized to be a violation of human rights for
females. This process explains the deep-rooted inequality in many regions between different
sexes and also comprises of one form of discrimination against women. This process is usually
carried out in miners due to which it is also a violation of rights of children. There are various
number of other rights which are hampered due to this health issue which include health,
physical, security, integrity, inhuman, degrading treatment, right to life or death, the right to be
free from torture and cruel and so on. There can be a lot of complications caused by this process
to women as well as girls. These practises are mainly followed in Africa, Asia and the Middle
East. WHO has openly opposed all the forms of this practice by any healthcare provider? A lot of
money is spent in treatment of the complications caused due to this health issue.
The following report includes service users, discrimination, violence and aggression against
vulnerable people, power as well as empowerment, ethical issues, social issues, legal issues,
socio- economic issues, political as well as cultural issues specific to the individual and their

health problems. A case study is also brought into light in this report which contains this health
issue of female genital mutilation. It consists of an individual who have faced the following issue
and what are the social as well as health related challenges faced by them due to the health issue
faced by them (Doyle, Ward and Early, 2018).
CASE STUDY
This case study is about Sasha who was born in Sierra Leone and had her mother and sister
in her family. She is married and divorced, unemployed at this moment. She was very normal
until the age of eight years when her female genital was mutilated on the name of Religious
believing of her mother as well as society. It was conducted as a grand ceremony and she was
dressed in a pink pretty dress. She had no idea what was going to happen with her at that
moment. She was quiet by an old lady on the day of celebration. No one stopped them from
doing so even her mother.
She was very small to understand what was happening with her and had to be are the pain
for a long period of time. She felt the pain whenever she deleted and also during her menstrual
cycle, she would scream due to the excruciating pain.
This incident happening at such a small age to Sasha had deep mental effects on her. Her
mental development was slower than that of other child of her age. She started doubting her
mother because her mother was nowhere present to save her from what has happened to her. She
started distrusting people and isolated herself from others. The major effect of this situation on
her life was that she could not have children. She was married to a man and due to the reason
because she could not have children was divorced. Other than this she had to bear the mental
pressure of society on her due to being divorced by her husband on the grounds that she could
not be a mother. Female genital mutilation at such a young age caused Sasha her life.
There are a number of complications caused due to female genital mutilation. They are
short-term as well as long-term complications. Government is spending a large amount to deal
with the complications caused by female genital mutilation still they cannot stop it. A number of
joint programmes have been made by WHO as well as other health organisations of the world.
They have adopted a resolution to eliminate female genital mutilation. It has been found that
there are 30 countries in which this procedure is prevalence on the name of belief, trend, attitude
and so on.