Unit 3, Equality and Inclusion in Health.

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Unit 3, Equality and inclusion in health. 1.1 Explain the following words – DIVERSITY. This is say when say someone has a lot of skills and is good at many things, you can say that person is very diverse and can do many things well. EQUALITY. There is where everyone is treated fairly and the same as anyone else. All deserve to be treated the same and not discriminated against because they are different. Someone should not be treated better than someone else say because there famous or have more money. INCLUSION This where positive discrimination is used to help a disadvantaged group, for example a employer say the police trying to employ more minority officers as they under represented in there force. DISCRIMINATION. This is where a person favours one person from another because they are different and because they don’t like a particular type of person. For example say he gives a job to a straight male instead of a gay man, because he doesn’t like gays. 1.2 Inadvertant discrimination. You have to treat everyone fairly and on there own merit. If someone is getting a promotion then it must be because they are the best person for the job, not because they are the boss favourite. Decision should be clear and transparent and have common sense and clear reason. If you ignore this it could be inadvertent discrimination. Deliberate discrimination This where someone is denied a job or promotion something like that because they are different and they are denied this opportunity for this reason only. For an example a men is not given a job because he’s black, that is deliberate discrimination 1.3 Practices to reduce the likelihood of discrimination that support equality and inclusion are their for a number of reasons. If you work to these guidelines then you will reduce the likelihood of discrimination. By supporting equality
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