HEALTH

The Principles of Health and Social Care

The Principles of Health and Social Care

Part 1

The Importance of the Principles of Care

The codes of ethics have, for across years, been established in the form of an enduring component for the purpose of ensuring the professional conduct and adequate control of the behaviour and the practices of medical professionals, which signifies an obligation to perform the duties and accomplish the tasks with honesty, integrity, dedication and an enthusiastic approach even in the most extreme of situations. In instances when a patient seeks for help in terms of medical care they do not merely enter into a common social relationship.

This holds true, particularly considering the fact that when a patient enters in such a relationship, there usually surfaces a need to share, reveal and elaborate on various personal details and other important aspects of their lives. In this regard, these codes and principles of care serve a beneficial purpose of tangibly protecting both the patients as well as the doctors across various difficult circumstances (Kotter & Cohen, 2002, pp. 347 - 354).

The Hippocratic Oath is conceivably the most widely known and practices code and principle which deal with the aspect of care. Even in the current era, this code is often administered in a few schools functioning within the medical field, particularly in the United Kingdom and other nations as well, irrespective of the fact that the origin of this oath is still not known. Conventionally, the codes and principle of care have been used and oaths have been taken exclusively by all medical professionals, which ultimately reflect that the profession of health care deals with a significant issue and a relationship between the doctors and the patients (Grol, 2003, pp. 55 - 70).

The Potential Influence of the Principle of Care on the Rights of Vulnerable People

For any society to flourish, it is extremely to understand and fulfil the various roles that the formal and informal care providers fill in meeting the needs of older, disabled and chronically ill adults. To accomplish this goal, a full continuum of care should be provided which should include services focused on the well - being of the people and particularly the vulnerable people, living in the community. The goal of these services need to be coordinated with short - stay and respite services while enduring that they have a potential of leading to a wide range of long-term services. Only by doing so, the right of these vulnerable people can be addressed in an appropriate and an adequate manner (Mannion, R. et al., 2008, pp. 299 - 309).

According to various analysis which have been carried out to study the dynamics of people who belong to the vulnerable population, it has been conclude that as many as two thirds of the residents belonging to various states need to be cared for in the community, which forms one of their basic rights. However, international comparisons have revealed the prevalence of a significant disparity in ...