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Assignment on Health & Social Care

   

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................3Q 1 Analyse concepts of health, Disability, illness and behaviour in relation to users of health and....................................................................................................................................................3social care services..........................................................................................................................3Q 2 Access how perception (stigma, discrimination specific needs have changed over time. .......4Q 3 Analyse impact of social policy / practise, legislation and culture on the availability of services.............................................................................................................................................5for individual with specific needs...................................................................................................5CONCLUSION....................................................................................................................................5REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION It is very necessary to understand specific needs of all the individuals who are usingdifferent types of health and social care services in various healthcare units (Barlow, 2014).Different people have various specific needs depending upon how complex their situation is. Inmany cases it can be solves at family level if the health issue is not very severe. But there are caseswhen patients require specialized care services which can be provided by health and social careworkers. Based on the issues of patients their specific needs are analysed so that they are metaccordingly. In this report different concepts of disability, illness and behaviour in health and socialcare will be discussed.Q 1 Analyse concepts of health, Disability, illness and behaviour in relation to users of health andsocial care services.There are different concepts in health and social care which are very necessary to beunderstood so that better health facilities are provided to all the service users and patients in healthand social care (DePoy and Gitlin, 2015). The concept of health, disability, illness and behaviouralissues has been discussed in this section of the report.Health: There are many benefits of being healthy. A person who is healthy is capable of managingall the activities and challenges irrespective of nature of the challenge. Being healthy not onlymeans a person is supposed to be fit in physical context but it is also very necessary for a person tobe fit and healthy in mental and social context (de Haan, and et.al, 2014). If a person is unhealthythen he/she will not be able to conduct all the daily activities efficiently. Hence it is very necessaryto maintain healthy lifestyle so that a person is able to manage his/her health effectively.Disability: Disability can be broadly categorized in two main types. Physical and mental disability.Physical disability can be defined as an impairment which causes physical distress in a person whois suffering from the health issue (Brown and et.al, 2015). This can be loss of limb, loss of vision orany other part of the body which is used to perform day to day activities. On other hand mentalillness or impairment can be defined as a health problem in which a person is not able to maintainhis/her mental stability throughout their lives. Mental illness can be in the form of loss of memorysuch as dementia and Alzheimer's disease.Illness: Illness can also be defined as a diseased condition in which a person is not fit both mentallyand physically. This leads to physical and mental tiredness in which a person is not able to focus onhis/her daily routine as a normal person does (Deci and Ryan, 2014). Illness not only has an impacton physical health but it also disturbs a person's mental state. Illness can also be categorized undertwo section. One is acute illness and the second one is chronic illness. Acute illness is a short termdisease which is can be cured by prescribing different medicines depending upon the medical

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