Inequalities in Health and Well-being for Mental Health Diversity in the UK

Essay

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Discuss inequalities in health and well-being for the dimension of diversity with help of
theories.........................................................................................................................................1
Apply Equality and Diversity policy and legislation to the health and social care sector...........2
Approaches that practitioners can implement to prevent disparities for the chosen dimension of
diversity........................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
The term diversity is generally is a standard, the mainstream term which is specifically
used in a broad range of the well-being research settings. The rise of diversity is generally an
acceptable term within the study and the policy is mainly a part of an ongoing development. In
this, the dimensions of diversity can involve the beliefs, marital status, physical and mental
health, education, ethnicity and many more. Here, for the essay the chosen topic is diversity of
mental health within UK. By understanding such dimensions of diversity within UK can help the
care providers to effectively help the people who are having the mental health issues or disability
to improve their well-being. It is known that people living in poor health conditions, gender,
racial/ethnic more frequently suffer from various mental well-being issues or disabilities due to
various elements consisting inaccessibility of high quality of mental well-being care services, the
cultural stigma generally surrounding the mental well-being care, discrimination as well as an
entirely lack of awareness about the mental well-being. The discrimination can be effectively
prevented within societies by having and implementing an equal opportunity policies as well as
anti-harrasment and the bullying policies, and effectively reviewing those policies as an
appropriate. Having diversities is also essential at rethink the mental disorders, the diversities can
provide a person a deeper understanding of the world as well as the needs of the vulnerable
people. In this essay, it will cover the health and well-being inequalities among people within
UK. In addition, there is a discussion about the equality and diversity legislations such as The
Mental Health Act 1983 and Equality Act 2010 and policies that are quite relevant to health and
social care sectors. Furthermore, there is also a discussion about the effective approaches of the
healthcare professionals that can be implemented to prevent the inequalities of mental health
among people across UK (de Bell et. al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
Discuss inequalities in health and well-being for the dimension of diversity with help of theories.
The term health disparities are generally the avoidable, unfair as well as a systematic
difference within well-being among multiple groups of the people. These are about the
differences in the status of the well-being of a person. In this, the term can also be used to refer
to the differences within the care which the vulnerable people can receive as well as the possible
opportunities which they have to lead a healthy living, both of that can specifically contribute
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