Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care

Unit 2: Equality,
Diversity and Rights in
Health and Social Care
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
P1 Concepts and equality, diversity as well as rights within relation to health as well as social
care...............................................................................................................................................3
P2 Describe discrimination practice in health and social care...................................................3
P3: Describe the potential effects of discriminatory practice on the people involved in each of
the case studies above. ................................................................................................................4
P4 Explanation of how different National initiatives promote anti-discriminatory practice. .....6
M2 Influence of one recent national policy initiative promoting anti-discriminatory practice...7
P5 How anti-discriminatory practice is promoted in health and social care................................7
M3 difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice in health and
social care settings.......................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Equality and diversity are interrelated with each other. They promote equal and fair access
and delivery of health and social care services. Every individual is having right to get equal care
services (Beresford, 2019). They are having right to live a healthy life.
This report will describe about concept of equality and diversity in health and social care.
Also, it will explain about types of discrimination practice and its potential effects on people
health. Moreover, different national initiatives that promote anti discriminatory practice will be
discussed. Along with it, examples are given that how practice are promoted in health and social
care.
P1 Concepts and equality, diversity as well as rights within relation to health as well as social
care
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P2 Describe discrimination practice in health and social care
In case study 2 the discrimination practices followed is on the basis of religious
beliefs ,that doctor refuses to take care of the baby as baby is regarding the same sex couples.
They prayer a lot but after she unable to treat their baby as both of them are lesbians. Here
prejudice is unsupported as it involves the negative behaviour such as stereotyped belief that
was followed by doctor in case 2 , bad feeling towards the couples and leads to discriminated
while not treated their baby (McCann.and Coyne, 2019). Generally prejudices are focuses on the
negative behaviour about the society members as there are various types of the prejudices such
as racism ,sexism ,nationalism ,homophobia,classicism and religious . All the three cases came
under the prejudices practices.
There is also one more practice followed within case 3 between the June and September 2010 as
when the female receptionist within a hospital was abused as well as harasses sexually repeatedly
by the male patient. She was abused with the unwanted sexual comments both in telephone and
in person by that male patient. She is also run way from the male patient. He also abused her by
inviting again and again to have sex with him. He was also visualizing the receptionist as naked.
Receptionist complaints many times to her supervisor but no action was taken place. In fact
supervisor sad to the receptionist against her complaint that she can take it as a compliment for
being beautiful lady. Here the abuse discriminatory practice was followed as according to this
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