Health and Social Care Unit2:P2

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Describe discriminatory practice in health and social care This part of the guide will explore age, social class, gender and sexuality discriminatory in health and social care. Discriminatory practices can happen for many reasons and can be shown through different behaviours .There are two types of discrimination. One is called overt discrimination; this is when you can tell discrimination is taken place for example one patient gets a better treatment than another patient. You could also have two service workers who have the same qualifications and do the same job but one gets paid more. Cover discrimination is when you can’t tell discrimination has taken place, for example someone could not get picked for a job just because of their age, social class, gender and sexuality. This would be hard to pinpoint as discrimination because it’s hard to find out why the person did not get the job. Age discrimination is when a person is treated unfairly because of how old they are, harassed or victimised because of their age. In a hospital elderly patients might not get the best medication available because they are seen to waste resources because they are going to die. They could say that the money saved from doing this could be spent on young people who have a feature. This is infringement of rights. Social class is a hierarchy status which individuals and groups of people are classified on the basis of esteem and prestige acquired which is most likely through economic success and accumulation of wealth. The four main types of social class that there are is upper class, middle class working class and lower class, this is regards to economic status. A person could be discriminated against because of their social class; this could even happen in a health and social care environment. For example in a day care centre stuff could give the good resources the company provides
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