SOCIAL EXCLUSION, INCLUSION & HEALTHCARE

Social Exclusion, Inclusion and Healthcare

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Introduction

Social exclusion refers to the lack of participation by segments of the population in social, economic, political and cultural life of their societies due to the lack of rights, resources and core capabilities, while social inclusion refers to the participation of the patients back in the society. Social exclusion is a key concept in the context of the European Union (EU) or in general all over the Europe to address the situations of poverty, vulnerability and marginalization of parts of its population. The concept has also spread, though more limited, outside Europe. The EU declared 2010 as the European Year for combating poverty and social exclusion (Pierson 2009, 108).

There is no consensus on the meaning of the concept of social exclusion. In the extensive literature that exists today on the subject very different content depending on the approach used is given. Therefore, a literature review conducted in 2007 by United Nations states that:

"As a concept, social exclusion is described in a most eloquent way in the literature. This term is described as hazy, ambiguous, polyvalent and polymorphous (Christina, Gordon and Ruth 2007, 19)."

The World Bank, in another synthesis of existing studies, says:

"Despite all the available literature on social exclusion, there is no clear definition or defined indicators on social exclusion" (Byrne 2009, 44).

According to another literature review, conducted for the World Health in 2008, the definitions of social exclusion are dozens and their commonalities not actually spend some statements about its dynamic characteristics, multidimensional and relational.

Hilary Silver, one of the most outstanding proponents of the concept of social exclusion, concludes his analysis of 2007 on the development of the concept by saying:

"The term is vague, ambiguous and contested as to its content, allowing your application and flexible in accommodating a variety of contexts at the cost of accuracy conceptual. Difficulties in defining social exclusion make it difficult to measure (Social Exclusion Unit 2007, 23). "

On the other hand there is the concept of social inclusion. The concept of social inclusion has been used by Niklas Luhmann to characterize the relationships between individuals and social systems. He reserved the term of the relationship between systems integration. Social inclusion and combating poverty are part of the European Union's objectives for growth and employment. Social inclusion can be described as an activity of adoption of the individual members of other groups. It can be defined as the process of establishing the best relations between the relatively independent groups and their subsequent transformation into a single, integrated system, which are coordinated and interdependent parts of it, based on common goals and interests (Taket 2009, 111).

Nursing Attitudes And Behaviours With Social Exclusion And Inclusion

Nurses can play their part in eliminating this concept of social exclusion from society. The first and foremost requirement is that nurses should be given training to deal each and every patient in an equal way rather than discriminating on the basis of race, ethnicity, ...