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UNIT 2: Equality, Diversity and Rights in Health and Social Care

   

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UNIT 2: Equality,Diversity and Rights inHealth and Social Care

INTRODUCTIONEquality is consider to be the most crucial factor which demanded by each and everyindividual within the society in order to achieve basic human rights and being valued over thediversity of people (Andersson and Kvist, 2015) This report focuses over these concept as theseare consider to be most essential part of health and social care service provider practices whichensures better life of people that doesn't involve any kind of discrimination. This report includesexplanation regarding concept of equality, diversity and rights along with discrimination or itspotential impact over service users. It also involves detail about national initiative of antidiscriminatory practices and how it get promoted in health and social care setting.TASK 1P1. Within health and social care practices it is crucial for the service providers to treat theirpatients equally and provide better services without any kind of bias behaviour in terms ofreligion, race, gender, age, ethnicity, language etc. Equality:- It means that everybody within the community being treated equally. Inseveral associations there should be certain laws and policies to ensure that each patientmust be treated equally (Einarsdottir 2015). Each person must get access to better careservices they need despite of any consideration to their lifestyle, ability or background.Equality is a basic human right and health or social care services which meet their dutiesin order to get respect, protection as well as promotion of human rights in order toaddressing inequalities.Diversity:- It refers to the process of encompassing acceptances and respect. Hence thesocial care centres must focus towards maintaining workforce diversity so that patientsfeel respected, treated with dignity and respect. There are patients and healthcare workerswith different characteristics and from different backgrounds such as race, class, religion,gender and physical characteristics etc. that can't be used as a reason to treat patientsunfairly. Each individual needs to be valued as an individual and the patients should betreated with dignity.Right:- It refers to basic human rights which belongs to every individual which embodieskey values within the society like fairness, self-respect, equality etc. They protects1

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