HEALTHCARE LAW & ETHICS

Healthcare Law & Ethics

Healthcare Law & Ethics

Introduction

Ethical concerns are at the heart of much of the work in health and social care. In fact it is not possible to adequately undertake the work without an obvious ethical framework.

Ethical issues create meticulous challenges for practitioners who are often intensely committed to the needs of service users, patients and clients and yet are confronted with systems and resources that do not adequately match their professional ambitions.

This paper redresses the balance by examining theory, research, policy and practice in both fields. The significance of this approach is reflected in the growing prominence on ethical issues in research and practice in Britain, on government policy aimed at improving partnership working across the two sectors. The analysis is set within the circumstance of existing challenges facing health and social care, not only in Britain but internationally. Contributors consider: ethical issues in health and social care research and governance; inter-professional and user perspectives; ethics in relation to human rights, the law, finance, management and provision; key issues of relevance to vulnerable groups, such as children and young people, those with complex disabilities, older people and those with mental health problems; and life course issues - ethical perspectives on a range of challenging areas from new technologies of reproduction to euthanasia.

Critically examine ethics and the law

According to official measure that seventy-five percent of all patients seen in a non-profit healthcare clinic live below the poverty level. Providing effective health care to low earnings families requires a comprehending of the potential heritage obstacles, which may be faced these fences comprise social, language, religion, and technical issues (Abrams, 2001).

The mainstream of our patients from foreign cultures are Hispanic or Asian, due to this fact, we will discuss the barriers of dealing with those from Hispanic and Asian Cultures, and offer possible solutions to overcome these obstacles effectively. The number of immigrants entering the joined States has been rapidly increasing over the last couple of years (Stalker, 2002). For instance, the number of Asians in the UK has grown to more than 9 million in 1996. In 1996, there were over 28 million Hispanics in the joined States, and the numbers are only increasing. The fast growth of these two heritages in joined States has made overwhelming heritage barriers vital in managing a non-profit healthcare clinic.

A predominate communal barricade in considering with those from the Asian heritage is their reluctance to disclose individual data to anyone out-of-doors of their family. Due to this, they may not be dependable and forth approaching in giving physicians or other medical employees' individual or critical data needed for their treatment. When it comes to healthcare for Asian women, they do not seek out medical care for Gynaecological exams because they feel it is an invasion of their body and considered improper and very humiliating for the women (Degeling, 2003). Let us start with some details about carers. The 2001 census demonstrated that there are about 6 million ...