Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Pearson BTEC HND Diploma in Health and Social Care

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Contemporary Issues in Health and Social Care Pearson BTEC HND Diploma in Health and Social Care

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Contents

INTRODUCTION 3 1. TASK 1 - LO1 (Information Pack) – The link between Information and Health & Social Care 4 1.1 AC 1.1 – Ways in which information reaches the public domain 4 1.2 AC 1.2 – Dissemination techniques used to analyse health and social care information 5 1.3 AC 1.3 – How do the different ways in which health and social care information is presented influence the attitudes, thoughts and behaviour of people 6 2. TASK 2 – LO2 – Analysis of a case study where a health related Moral Panic was created by the media 7 2.1 America's Moral Panic over Obesity 7 2.2 Assessing the accuracy and validity of health and social care information presented in the media 8 4. TASK 4 – Contemporary Issue – UK National Health Service crisis of 2015 9 4.1 To what extent does the local attitude reflect those found at a national level 9 4.2 Evaluation of the validity of public attitudes and behavior in relation to NHS UK 10 4.3 Justification of the possible consequence of contemporary thinking in the health and social care provisions and services industry 10 5. CONCLUSION 11 6. REFERENCES 12

INTRODUCTION

Health and Social Care is generally describes all the services which health and social care providing firms specialise in. This is a very significant industry in the UK, and can be used to refer to the whole industry of healthcare provision, both the public and private sector combined. Typically referred to as “Human Services” in both the United States and Canada, there is a wide variety of