Ethical Dilemma in Health and Social Care : Assignment
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Ethical Dilemma in Health and Social Care : Assignment
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Running head: ETHICAL DILEMMA IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CAREEthical dilemma in health and social careName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
2ETHICAL DILEMMA IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CAREIntroduction: The society has transformed absolutely in the past and that is the reason the continuousprocess of urbanization and modernization transfer each and every symptom of the society.Starting litigation to Healthcare impact of globalization and modernization has not let anyonetouch Revolutionary changes Healthcare industry has taken the entire world by a storm(Tengland 2012). However, among the different challenges and complications and arising in thehealth care industry, there have been efforts and dedication put forth by the National and globalhealth authorities to combat and prevent these health adversities from manifesting and worsening(Parkin et al. 2011). There are various long term and short term goals and strategies developedby the authorities to combat and prevent the different challenges and hurdles, and among all thedifferent strategies optimal patient education and preventative campaigning has to be one of themost impactful and crucial strategies. Although, the concept of large scale preventative healtheducational planning has gained quite considerable popularity, there still are many ethicalconstraints associated with this strategy (Thompson and Kumar 2011). This assignment will behighlighting the ethical dilemma that can arise in the context of preventative health campaigningtaking the assistance of a relevant case study, and will provide a case study response on it.Case description:Preventative health campaigning can be considered as one of the most basic strategies toenhance the awareness of the target populations in an efficient, productive and yet costeffectiveness be manner. Preventative campaigning can be of various types, and each kind hasspecific array of benefits for the society undoubtedly. In this case, the case study represents anethical dilemma regarding the most commonly observed health prevents be and promotional
3ETHICAL DILEMMA IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CAREcampaigning, with handouts. The topic on which this campaigning is focusing on, the handoutprogram is specifically about breast cancer. The breast cancer one of top three public healthpriorities contributing to a considerably higher mortality and hospice referral rate in the nation.In this context, the case study represents a situation, where the time, money and otherresources invested in the preventative programs is not being able to bear results due to afundamental flaw if the administrative authority. It has to be mentioned that in this case study,the most important flaw in the planning procedure is the neglect that the local native languagehas Received. The community that is the target group for the campaigning is not comfortablewith English language, and the literacy level of the most of the community is also very low(DeSantis et al. 2014). Despite, the authorities being completely aware of the lack of literaryunderstanding of English in the local natives, the authorities have taken no initiative to addressthis issue. Furthermore, it had to be mentioned in this context as well that despite the authoritieshaving full knowledge of this issue, the alternate solutions like providing translation and audiovisual representation of the handouts has also been rejected by the authorities. It has to beunderstood in this context that the authorities had a clear and succinct idea of the fact thatEnglish is the not the operational language of the majority of the residents. Hence, despite thepreventative campaigning targeted for the benefit of the majority of the female inhabitants of thetarget community, they are not being able to access the health informative campaign, whichshould have been primarily focused on them.Critical analysis and discussion:Health promotion and informative communication campaigns are associated in general with alarge number of external and internal factors that may influence the efficacy and the ethical
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