Promoting Equality and Diversity in Healthcare: The Case of Supporting Anthony's Well-being

According to NHS 2018, equality is the aspect in which everyone is treated equality and provided with equal facilities and privileges, in terms of making a fairer society [NHS, 2018]. In health and social care context, every individual has right to get fair treatment, support and care from care providers irrespective of their caste, religion, race, ethnicity and physical or mental disability. Diversity is the process of valuing, recognizing and accepting the differences in people’s thought, activities, behaviours and approaches (Sharma, 2016). PHE, 2018 has mentioned in its report that, in UK there are many cases in which people are harassed and provided with lack of proper health care and social support due to the diversity in their behaviours and activities, which not only impact on their mental health but also pose adverse impact on their overall emotional, mental and spiritual health [PHE, 2018]. Equality and diversity are important to prevent discrimination and bias in society in relation to caste, religion, behavioural and learning disability, mental and physical disability, race and ethnicity. In the given case study, Anthony needs fair and positive environment in wider society as well as in his workplace in which he will be treated with dignity and respect. One of the most important supports that he needs is that acceptance of his homosexuality by the society. Equality will assist anthology to get equal rights, facilities and support in his workplace and wider society. On the other hand, diversity will assist society to respect and accept the diverse sexual behaviour of Anthony that will improve not only his mental health but also improve his self-esteem and self-confidence.

In context of equality and diversity vocabulary plays an important role in developing positive thoughts, bias free mentality and supportive environment in society that assist people with learning difficulties like Anthony to get proper social support from neighbours, friends and family members. As mentioned by Van den Bosch et al. (2020), words have enough power to reflect on the mentality, perception and behaviours of people. Through learning positive and right words, it is possible to develop creative thoughts and position behaviour in people that are important for changing their mentality toward people with learning disability and diverse behaviours. In case of Anthony, vocabulary can assist him in many different ways to get equality and diversity in the way he is treated by other people. Care workers can use diverse words, terms and synonyms that can not only improve the stock of words of Anthony but also assist him to develop proper ability to make fluent interaction with other people by using appropriate words. As stated by Mertkan et al. (2017), vocabulary sheet is generally used by the care staffs for people with learning disabilities in term of developing their knowledge about different terms and their usage. Vocabulary sheet can also be used by social care workers in their awareness campaigns against discrimination, gender bias and inequality in society in terms of making people aware of such words and term that are important for changing the attitude and behaviours toward sexual and behavioural diversity thereby instigating them to treat the disable and diverse people equally like the other normal people (Booysen et al. 2018). Vocabulary training is highly important for Anthony that will assist him to express his feelings, thoughts and decision in front of other people and make them understand his psychology and behaviours. On the other hand, through developing stock of words, Anthony can be able to interact with his colleagues and seniors at workplace smartly without facing any speech difficulties that will make him to grab his equal right, fair treatment and positive approaches from them. Additionality, through vocabulary training, it is possible to recover the learning difficulties of Anthony thereby enhancing his knowledge , decision making , reasoning and problem solving skill that are important to express his viewpoint in front of society so that society that can make positive transformation in the way society treat him.

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