The ability to communicate effectively is essential when referring to the health and social care sector. Communication implies much more than transferring and receiving information. It represents a vital part in developing and maintaining relationships and everyone uses it as a method to express feelings and emotions. The essay presents the factors that influence effective communication and methods to improve it. I will focus on the skills required for achieving it by explaining the importance of
During this essay I shall be outlining functionalism, Marxism and feminism as Principal sociological perspectives, I shall then apply the application of these to health and social care situations and evaluate the strengths and weaknesses. Functionalism being a structuralism theory can be explained as being a theory that examines society as formed through interdependent elements, much like the representation offered by Comte and Durkheim that each individual aspect of society is assigned to an organ
disorded because of the effects of social influence which for example people can influence someone elses thinking just because of the social group that someone is in (Gibbons, 2016). This model needs to become more developmental in the sense of medial conditions and psychological factors to find the remedies for mental health and illness. As stated in the essay before the social model of disability suggests that there is a form of stigma as there is emerging social labels and this creates the stigma
SEXUAL HEALTH AMONGST INDIGINOUS AUSTRALIANS In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience sexual health inequalities when compared to the rest of the population. They are over-represented in notifications of sexually transmissible infections and viral hepatitis (Kirby Institute 2013) and have higher rates of teenage pregnancy (Li, Hilder and Sullivan, 2012). Sexual health according to WHO (2002) is not limited to absence of disease and dysfunction, it also refers to a state
Neo-liberalism is not really new at all. It is premised on the nineteenth-century liberal belief that unregulated markets, rather than the state or public institutions, will produce all of the social or public goods we need. This Neo-liberal ideology was grounded in the 'classical liberal tradition', which was primarily hailed by Adam Smith in his treatise, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776. For Smith, the individual should be freed from government