Food should be served at the correct temperature; temperature should be monitored if food is kept in warming trays. 1.2 The main reason for implementing food safety is to keep individuals from becoming ill due to food not properly prepared. In a large setting such as banquets, weddings or group gatherings you can make a large portion of the population ill by not following proper food safety. These illnesses can range from mild (upset stomach, headache) to severe (death). Food should be thrown out or refrigerated after being left out for 2 hours.
D2 –Justify ways of overcoming difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care settings. D2 –Justify ways of overcoming difficulties that may arise when implementing anti-discriminatory practice in health and social care settings. What is discrimination? Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex; in other words treating some people less well than others because of differences. How anti-discrimination is promoted?
It is also important to recognise that the concept of health is relative. A person’s view of what is ‘normal’ health is influenced by factors such as their gender, social class, ethnicity or age (Haralambos M, Heald R, O’ Gorman J and Smith F, 1996). The social model of health suggest that indivual and community health results from structural and cultural influences affecting ethnic minorities, women, the elderly and other particular groups of people. This relative view of health focuses on the barriers and difficulties which prevent the ‘ill’ or ‘disabled’ from having access to health and ‘normality’, as this interpretation of ‘health’ takes into consideration the wider social pressures of
There might be more than one negative feedback systems that can counter the changes of a particular disturbance. If you do not maintain homeostatic balance in the cardiovascular system, you are at risk for having strokes, and heart attacks. It also affects the eyes, kidneys, brain and the aorta. The homeostatic imbalance that causes Diabetes is when the body does not produce enough or overproduces the hormone insulin and sometimes glucagon. Another cause is when a person’s body possesses nonfunctional receptor sites within target cells that cause the body to become insensitive to these same chemicals.
ASC 101 – 2012 Essay assignment Question 4: Focusing on one specific health-related issue or medical condition, critically discuss how social factors can serve to shape and inform notions of health and wellness, illness and disease. This question must make reference to the readings from Week #6 regarding ‘Health and the self’, specifically the notion of ‘social determinants of health’. Examples of health issues that you may wish to explore in this essay include diabetes, the ‘obesity epidemic’, or ‘mental illness’. This essay critically discusses how social factors can serve to shape and inform notions of health and illness. It begins by outlining the limitations of the dominant model of health—the biomedical science model—before proposing
(Friedenberg, 2000) Each form of healthcare rationing comes with it’s own effects and consequences, whether they be positive or negative. The degree of the outcome for the patient, negative or positive, will be based upon the regulations put forth by the controlling parties. It is my opinion that if certain forms of rationing are not properly regulated then this country will experience several forms of discrimination, patient endangerment and a gross social injustice. RATIONING BY DELAY Rationing by delay is the process of delaying treatments, procedures, and testing in order to decrease costs. (Friedenberg, 2000) In my opinion rationing by delay, if it is beneficial and does not cause imminent death, is a crucial and appropriate part of cost containment.
Why is it important for organisms to regulate internal temperatures or metabolic processes at different temperatures? -Certain vital enzymes will become inactive if the temperature is too cold, and denatured if the temperature is too hot. The organism cannot function without these vital enzymes. 8. Explain how the process of blanching is used in the food industry and why a specific temperature is required.
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HEALTH AND ILLNESS Social construction refers to how health varies from one society to another. Our gender, class, ethnicity, religion and even education construct society, these all determine our experience of reality. Health, illness and disability can all be seen as socially constructed or defined. Some argue that friends or relatives can often influence a person’s view on a ‘symptom’ worthy of the doctor’s attention. Irving Kenneth Zola argued that patients’ reasons for seeking medical help are affected by cultural background.
A Film Exploration into the effects of governmental policies on the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal people. Kanyini is a film directed by Melanie Hogan and explores how colonisation has contributed to the health gap between Indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. The historical context of the film gives insight into the health related issues that are endured by Aborigines. Linguistics and cultural differences are guiding the miscommunications and interpretations that are contributing to the health communication and health service delivery gap. The importance in understanding the social, emotional and cultural health factors pertaining to Indigenous health become evident in Randall’s account of colonisation.
Cultural is system of values, beliefs, practices that guide someone’s behavior. A culture is learned or shares; it is a way of thinking, feeling, and acting. Culture is passed from generation to generation; religion is an important part of someone’s cultural identity. Culture usually affect older people recognizes, and characterizes the meaning of illness. One cultural view, is about the meaning of health, and what is there to do when illness strike.