Although we are capable of making our choices: These choices can be influenced by external forces i.e friends, family, media and religious beliefs. They have an impact on our personal beliefs and idea’s and can alter someone’s perception on things. People often lack knowledge on how food, alcohol and drugs will affect them. They often develop a psychological dependence on such things believing it is helping them. Habitual patterns are formed and this can have a huge impact on their health both physical and mental.
Unit 4222-250 Support individuals to maintain personal hygiene Outcome 1 Understand the importance of good personal hygiene 1 Explain why personal hygiene is important. People should have a good personal hygiene to maintain their wellbeing and health. Showering or bathing on a regular basis, washing hair and good overall cleaning of the body can help to kill harmful bacteria which could lead to health problems and illness. By maintaining good personal hygiene is important to peoples social, health, psychological well being. Good personal hyginene helps to prevent or develop infections, illness or bad odours, it also helps with confidence, motivation, body image and self esteem.
They have the right to: ● the right to live in dignity and security and be free of exploitation, violence and physical, mental or sexual abuse ● economic, social and cultural rights including the right to an adequate standard of living including, social protection ● the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. (http://www.dementiarights.org/charter-of-rights/ accessed 2012-12-04) Data Protection Act 1998 is
Unit 97 Support Individuals to Maintain Personal Hygiene 1 Understand the importance of good personal hygiene Explain why personal hygiene is important Good personal hygiene important to help take care of your body to prevent illness and infection. Good personal hygiene can also help to prevent the spread of infection to others. Describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being Poor personal hygiene is known to be unacceptable in our culture. Good personal hygiene helps us to eliminate odours from our body. Odours occur from bacteria found on our skin and in our mouths.
Word count 1439 Discuss how social health and behavioural sciences impact on the physical and mental health of an individual. The mental state of a person is significantly influenced by social activities in the environment the person lives in (Black et al. 1980). The above statement supports researches which indicates that there is empirical evidence to demonstrate inequalities between health and the social classes of societies especially in Britain where the research was done. This essay attempts to provide an overview on human sociological activities, behaviour and experience and how it affects the physical and mental health of an individual.
Task 1 Health Promotion The aim of this assignment is to provide a definition of health and explain the potential impact of socio-economic factors on the health of children, also to research two different health promotion programmes. I see the definition of health is when a person is in a good general mental well being, a good physical and social state, and that they are free of illness. Health, according to the World Health Organisation is ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ being in good health doesn’t always mean just being free of any illnesses, it can be the general condition of the mind and the body, it is a balance of all these things being good and working well. According to Wikipedia the definition of health is: ‘Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and
Potential hazards in health and social Hazard: Anything that can cause harm, e.g. chemicals, electricity, moving and handling service users. Risk: The chance, high or low, that somebody will be harmed by the hazard. It is important that risks to those being cared for, and to their care workers, are sensibly and proportionately managed in ways that respect their rights, freedoms and dignity. Care homes differ from other workplaces because they are not only places of work but are also homes for their residents.
The foundation of a healthy life is good personal hygiene. Poor hygiene can cause several different health problems including skin problems, infectious diseases caused by bacteria or parasites. 1.2 Describe the effect of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being. When people don't practice adequate personal hygiene, certain consequences may develop ranging from social problems to potentially serious diseases. Poor personal hygiene can have social and emotional effect on life.
In particular, key social factors considered under this model include the impact of poverty, poor housing, diet and pollution on persons’ health. For instance, poor housing and poverty may prove to be catalysts to respiratory problems, and in response to these causes and origins of ill health, an objective of the socio-medical model is to encourage society to provide better housing and introduce programs to tackle poverty, and these propositions are seen as viable solutions. The socio-medical model encourages people to live healthy lifestyles, it looks at the cause of the illness and tries to change the factor that causes the illness to prevent it from continuing rather than only giving when diagnosis and only medical treatment. The factors which the socio-medical model suggest is also a cause of ill health such as poor housing, poverty and diet can have a strong impact on the over health and wellness of individuals, communities and countries. The model emphasises preventing and changing the cause of an illness on a more natural way instead of relying on medication.
It can also lead to the individual being isolated by friends. It can have a great effect on your health causing infections; stop you from causing injury to yourself and others by trimming nails. Good personal hygiene is important to promoting good health. Outcome 2 Know how to encourage an individual to maintain personal hygiene. The learner can: 1 Explain how to address personal hygiene issues with an individual in a sensitive manner without imposing own values.