Unit 2 - Health and Social Care

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How anti-discriminatory practice is promoted in health and social care settings: Ethical Principles- Justice: Justice is when an individual or group of people are punished for acting in a manner which is not appropriate or more seriously, a crime that they may have committed. Therefore justice is a means of promoting anti- discrimination, as individuals will learn not to discriminate if they get justice. As well as this it will make the person who was discriminated against feel like they are right in the feeling that they should not be treated in this manner. An example of this within a health and social care setting is a pupil in a school making a racial comment towards another pupil or teacher who was a different race to them. Therefore the pupil being sent to the head teacher and being punished for this would be them receiving justice. This may be the pupil receiving detention and having to apologise to the individual or depending of the severity of the situation possibly being excluded or spoken to by the police. Autonomy: Autonomy is the freedom to make their own choices and decisions in relation to their own care. This is important as it gives the individual independence, and allowing them to base their choices on their own beliefs and motives, meaning that their differences aren’t meaning that they are being discriminated against. As well as this it also allows them to take moral responsibility for their own actions. An example of this within a health and social care setting may be a patient in a hospital which has a disorder which meant that they had a problem in their spine and they had the option of either a dangerous operation, or medication and physiotherapy. This means that the patient could make either decision which they would feel most comfortable with, without the doctors pressuring them to follow a certain route. However the doctors are
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