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

This report delves into the crucial concepts of equality, diversity, and rights within the context of health and social care. It emphasizes the importance of treating all individuals, regardless of their gender, beliefs, race, religion, age, sexuality, or other characteristics, with respect and fairness. The report highlights the legal framework, including the Equality Act 2010 and the Human Rights Act 1998, and discusses how these laws promote equal opportunities and protect against discrimination. It provides examples of how these principles are applied in practice, such as ensuring that patients with disabilities receive appropriate care and that cultural and religious differences are respected. The report also includes a discussion on the significance of providing equal opportunities to both patients and healthcare staff and highlights the importance of diversity in healthcare settings to improve the quality of care. Furthermore, the report includes a references section that provides supporting evidence to support the report's claims.

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

P1 Concepts and equality, diversity as well as rights
within relation to health as well as social care
 This PPT explains about the various concepts regarding diversity, equality and rights. It is crucial to
imply these concepts in health and social care.
 As the people whom must work patients must treat the people equally despite their gender, belief, race,
religion and gender, age, sexuality, language, skin color, disability, ethnicity and sexual orientation.
 It also has to identify when patients are being mistreated or discriminated by other staff members.
 It is vital that the employees can celebrate it regarding their patients feel valued, service users.

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 Equality- It means that the equality is assuring that everybody has equal opportunities as well as treated
equally and also there is no one can treated abuse within relation to their gender, disability, race as well
belief or religion.
 Such as within care home as if a patient is suffered from the dementia was treated for example missing his
meals properly.
 Also, the staff can be potentially prosecuted from attending that specified workplace as well as never work
within the social and healthcare. The act regarding equality came within 2010 as well as reduce the
mistreatment as well as promotes respect regarding everybody.
 Equity- It is treated that each and every individual as per the desires to their needs such as child with
disability is also entitled to the particular to the special one-to-one regarding personal tutors to learn to be
enhanced and stimulated as well as enhance the self-esteem so that they able to join the rest of the class.

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 Diversity- With the help of the social and healthcare, diversity is considered as the respect
that each and every culture is not considered as similar as oneself as well as able to leave
the difference of own aside.
 It can also affect that how ideas and life or also how they can deal with various
salutations.
 Such as a Muslim lady who is doctor might not want a male doctor as it is considered as
the part of their religion and also need a woman rather than a man due to her values and
culture are different.

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 Rights- In 1998, the human rights act is made and “ right to freedom” was taken from this
act. It provides the ability to say that apart from the gender, disability, age or sexuality.
 Such as Within care it would be biased to restrict a person from actions as well as other
patients due to their disability it is considered as demoralizing.
 Opportunities- It is considered the act of equal opportunities and falls under the act
regarding Race Relation made within 2000. According to this each and everybody who
falls under the social care and health care have a various range of the opportunities that are
available to patients and them as well as falls under the service.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
 Beresford, P., 2019. Public participation in health and social care: exploring the co-
production of knowledge. Frontiers in Sociology, 3, p.41.
 McCann, E. and Coyne, I., 2019. The experiences of youth who identify as trans* in
relation to health and social care needs: a scoping review. Youth & Society, 51(6), pp.840-
864.
 Best, S. and Myers, J., 2019. Prudence or speed: Health and social care innovation in rural
Wales. Journal of Rural Studies, 70, pp.198-206.

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