Health Disparities and Equity in Care

The assignment delves into the crucial topic of health disparities and equity in healthcare. It examines various factors contributing to these disparities, including social determinants of health and cultural influences. The analysis emphasizes the importance of patient-centered care and explores successful community health worker interventions for diverse populations. Additionally, it considers the role of integrated patient care models in promoting equitable access and outcomes.

UNIT 10 SAFEGUARDING

INTRODUCTION
Safeguarding in Health and social care is the important roles to make the people more
effective. The report will highlight on the basis of case study and Article reviews under which
the Particular individual and groups may be vulnerable to abuse or harm to self and others.
Review on the basis of article, Factor associated with the incidence of abuse and harm to self and
others. Further, Minimise abuse by referencing existing working practices and strategies health
care professional and effectiveness of these working polices and practices.
TASK 1
AC1.1 Particular individual and groups may be vulnerable to abuse or harm to self and others
According to the case, individual who are dependent on someone else, specific adult
individual is mainly focused by abuser which is the major issuers have been arisen and no one
stop them to do such things on the people. The lady who is depended and not able to speak when
she was abuse by the people. The individual who are helpless may be abused from the
intellectual as well physically. Certain period, individual hear abuse from their elders only. The
parents are using more abuse to each other or to any other. Therefore, the abuse can be the
general situation in the mind because the feeling remain with them.
According to the department of health, elders vulnerable to abuse are defined a individual
who are in better 18 year or above or they required social care services due to any intellectual or
other issues of health, time of life or sickness(Shim, 2010). Vulnerable elder considered
individual as facing the local fierceness, household person, addiction of bad habits.
Individual who are abused due to language, physiological issues, physically reacting at the
various conditions. In the case study of an adult woman was abused by her care taker at time the
elder lady feel bad and shocked.
AC1.2 Review on the basis of article, Factor associated with the incidence of abuse and harm to
self and others.
There are different kinds of abuse which may feels the individual blameable and shocked.
Such abuse consists physical, emotional, verbal, sexual, financial, neglect or other types of abuse
which included the emotional.
In the case scenario the abuse main target on the older woman and she was in pain because the
disease suffering neurodegenerative and depend on the person who is taking care and assistance
in each and every task. Therefore, the expertise think that risk factor are generally at huge risk of
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abuse. According to the (Munn-Giddings and Winter, 2013) this risk factor can be precise as the
distinctive of person which will enhance the possibility of badness outcomes in the upcoming
time period. There are certain risk factors associated with incidence of abuse and harm to self
and someone such as
Household issues: This are the most affected risk factor in which the self harm is the household
problem. For example if the child is abusing to his parents and learn for whole life such situation
will be pass through to next generation as well.
Isolation: The customer will be perseverate himself and deficiency assistance from the outside
people. In this scenario, the level of abuse will he addition. The factor will change the outcomes
of abuse are physical isolation and social isolation in the absence of competent assistance which
gives some comfort.
TASK 2
AC3.1 & AC3.2 Minimise abuse by referencing existing working practices and strategies health
care professional and effectiveness of these working polices and practices.
It can be seen that the abusing will affect the individual on diverse impact dependent on
various component which can be the unfortunate have been abused, the better the unfortunate is
connected with the person who is abusing and the decision taking for state of the relatives and
households to remove the abuses. The given case study the lady have been lost her trust due the
abusing behaviour shows by her car taker which harms harm and shocked as well. The working
policies and action will help to minimise the effect of abuse which can be evaluated
The first scenario which was of the child who is bullies by the another kids of his class.
Normally, autistic child are the more targeted of such kinds of incidence because they are
inefficient to speak and share their issues and feeling with the each and every individual of the
society(Kitson, 2013). It determines the challenges to tackle the face expression and the body
communication of someone else. It can be also shows that abusing on the kinds are also
increased nowadays. The various working practices and action which may be utilise to reduce
the abuses such as follows:
 It is important to follows the rules and regulation of the school which they have been
make a report and they suggest the handling the behaviour of bullying.
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 Promote the candidates who are bullied by communication about the issues and try to
find out in detail of bullying. It will assist the candidate to earn trust and feel supportive
due to the easy actions.
 It required assuring from the school management that these kinds of issues will not
happen again with the student.
The second instance of the case talk about the handle of the forbearing with the past
communication abuse. Usually, this types of suffering people will be fed up or more aggressive
early and make the issues for the intellectual health care provider in action nutrient and medicine.
Therefore, they have to be handle easy manner and support them so they can not harm by self as
well other person in the health and social care(Wallerstein and Duran, 2010). The continue
supervising needed and observation of the individual who is suffering from the illness which
required by professional care taker. The various policies and practices need to considered for
these kinds of patient may discuss such as follows:
 Provide them an effective environment which they fell better and relax.
 Remove all the hazardous equipment from the person who is suffering need to be isolated
so that will not create any issues to the any other person.
 It is important to show the respect towards the concern person by giving sympathy to the
patient and solve their issues.
 The individual need to respond in polite manner and support the patient for better
outcomes(Aveyard, 2014).
 The inquiring may be creating siusti0n of fed up which need to handle easy way.
 These working action will assist the care taker to provide the overall assistance to the
victim and give them better environment.
AC3.3 Recommendation for improvement you will suggest with
other members of staff to minimise abuses
The improvement that may be done with the help of society and government support but
the recommendation suggest will help effectively to the other member for reducing abusing. In
the United Kingdom 1.2 million female are there who was facing the local abusing and 333000
female are affect due to physically assaulted. On the other hand to condition the condition and
reducing the abuse on the individual, specifically on the female. The government of United
kingdom had taken certain action against to minimise the abusing with the help of re launched a
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campaign named with the 'This is Abuse Campaign' focus to communicating with the young
male offender. Same as, there are several others rules and regulation in terms of legislation
initiate by the government across the globe to reducing the abuse effective way. There are some
recommendation apart from the can be discus such as follows:
 Directing rest watch over extremely introverted children
 Parent training projects and care groups for mentally unbalanced children
 Directing open mindfulness projects to advise residents how and where to report the
harassing
 Open administration declarations on TV or radio to energize individuals about treating
kids legitimately
 Including expertise based educational program in the learning for kids
TASK 3
AC 1.3Analyses the impact of social/cultural factors on
physical, emotional, psychological, neglect abuse on service – user
Covered in Poster
AC 2.2 explain professionals
involvement in protecting vulnerable groups in health and social Care
Covered in Poster
AC 2.1Srengths and weaknesses of current legislation/polices relating to abuse
of vulnerable people
Covered in Poster
CONCLUSION
From the report Safeguarding in Health and social it can be easily concluded that abusing
will affect the individual on diverse impact dependent on various component which can be the
unfortunate have been abused, the better the unfortunate is connected with the person who is
abusing and the decision taking for state of the relatives and households to remove the abuses.
'This is Abuse Campaign' focus to communicating with the young male offender which will help
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to minimise the abusing on the women. Hence, to child abusing it required the expertise based
educational program in the learning for kids to ware about such issues.
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