Unit 45, Assignment 1 – Resources for Health and Social Care.
Explain why resources are presented differently due to the type of media used.
During this Report we will be looking at the different types of resources available for new learners in Health and social care. I will be reviewing four different types of resources I have researched. I will also explain why they are presented differently from one another and the different types of ways these resources can be presented by the media.
Internet – The internet is easily accessible and used worldwide. It is a global network and you can find a wide range of information on any topic via the internet. You can gain access on to the internet by using a variety of different appliances;
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The book I used as a resource (Understanding Health and Social Care, Second edition, Julia Johnson, Sage publications, 2010) contained references, so that I knew where the piece of information was coming from and that it was from a reliable source. It had a contents page, with the chapter and page number, making it easier for myself to find a particular subject. There was also an index pages, which helped me to locate useful information. There was a lot of technical words and some jargon in this book and I did have to make a note of the words I didn’t fully understand in order to go back and look them up to fully understand. Books can be presented by the media through the radio, billboards, television, social media sites and the internet. Understanding Health and social care is targeted at students and people working within the Health and social care sector. It is presented differently because it has lots of references and is updated when new information comes out or when what was previously written in the book has now become outdated.
Journals – A journal is subject based and is written by experts and professionals. A journal is usually researched based and will be based upon facts with references/ evidence to support the writer’s findings. Journals are known as periodical as they are published at regular intervals which could also make them a better resource than a book. The resource (Psychology review, volume 20, April 2015) was
2)The internet is when we connect computers together from anywhere over the world through routers and servers. Three popular uses for the internet are communication,research and education.
Haworth, E., Higgins, H., Hoyle, H., Lavers, S. and Lewis, C. (2010) BTEC Level 2 First Health and Social Care Teaching Resource Pack, Harlow: Pearson Education, 978-1-84690-671-8
A: Internet: Internet means the network of networks that connected to all networks around the world. For an instance, if you send an email or a message using your mobile phone, then your mobile phone uses internet.
Health literacy has been demarcated as the measurement of the individual’s capacity to obtain, understand and process simple health information. It is needed to make satisfactory health decisions and determine services needed to treat or prevent illness. Health literacy requires knowledge from many topics, comprising the patient’s own body, appropriate conducts towards healthy results and the difficulties to understand the health system. It is influenced by many conditions such as our communication skills, age, socio-economic status, and cultural background, past experiences, educational level and mental health status (U.S. Department of
The content of this pamphlet is very strong from a health standpoint and also from a reading standpoint. It is easy to follow, but not childish in nature. There are simple, practical tips that can be followed, and there is enough content to feel as though something was learned. Still, it is very easy to get through and there is not so much content that one feels he or she has to read a lot to get the information. That is the mark of a high-quality pamphlet that can really help people with their health.
For this unit we have been looking at communication is all its vast ways. We have been studying the environmental factors and barriers that can occur in health and social care settings. For this task I have been asked to explain those factors that influence communication and interpersonal interactions in health and social care environments and to also look at the negative barriers to communication.
Health literacy has been a problem with our patients. The most vulnerable populations are the elderly, people with low-income levels, those with limited education, non-native speakers of English, those with chronic mental and physical health conditions, minority, and immigrant populations. Nurses have a great role in helping our patients succeed in understanding their health conditions. Nurses can be of great help in promoting health literacy. Sykes, Wills, Rowlands and Popple (2013) defined health literacy as the ability of individuals to access, understand, appraise, and apply health information. The three domains of health literacy, according to Bennett and Perkins (2012) as adapted from the (WHO) (1998) are functional health literacy, interactive literacy, and critical health literacy. Functional health literacy is basic reading and writing skills to be able to function effectively in a health context. Interactive health literacy is the used of more advanced cognitive and literacy skills to participate in health care. Critical health literacy is the ability to analyze critically and to use information to participate in action, to overcome structural barriers to health (p.14). The U.S. Department of Education published the findings of the National Assessment of Adult Literacy conducted in 2003. The result showed that 36 % of adults have basic or below-basic skills for dealing with health material, 52 %
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The concept of health literacy was first originated in early years and it was recognised as an autonomous research field in 1990s (Andrew pleasant and Shyama Kuruvilla, 2008). The
Health literacy is both a consumer and public healthcare issue. As a health care provider, it is not only my responsibility to ensure that you understand your health and what is going on
Internet - A great invention of man. The Internet has become a familiar term, a medium of communication that everyone uses, and even depending upon it. The impact of the Internet spread as it began to promote its use as entertainment, people not only find data, but they also listen to music, watch movies, and play games online. Millions of people go online every day, but the number of people who go online to work, study, and access data less than the number of people who go online to chat or play games.
Breakdown of the word ‘Internet’ would be Inter- Connected computer networks. The internet is made up of millions of computers connected together. There is only one network. The Internet is a global computer network that provides information and other facilities to people all around the world through protocols. The Internet could be accesses from different devices via different networks. The Internet is used daily in people’s lives. At school; for educational purposes, at work; access to client profile and other resources, universities; researching facilities and at home. The internet consists of different facilities, such
Internet stands for Interconnected Computer Networks, in a simple definition is a system or network when many computer around the world are connected based on a certain regulation that called protocol.
The internet is a collection of computers connect together electronically over the world. The internet is also a collection of devices that are used for communication. People can make phone calls, send emails and chat using the internet. In order wards the internet is a tool for transfer of information. It can also be used for business and
Internet. A means of connecting a computer to any other computer anywhere in the world via dedicated routers and server.