Concepts of discriminatory practices and anti-discriminatory practices
Lo1-Understand concepts of equality, diversity and rights in relation to health and social
care
Lo2- know the discriminatory practices in health and social care
Discriminatory practice is the act that someone is discriminating against another regarding
their age, culture, race, disability, sexual orientation, or anything else someone believes
they can discriminate against. Discrimination is when thoughts made with prejudice is
influenced to make actions involving the unjust treatment resulting from a prejudice view
In this essay I will explain the different discriminatory practises with examples regarding the
health and social care setting as well as how they affect the service user or the professional.
Infringement of rights means to deny someone’s rights away. Rights are things that as a
human everyone is entitled to and can’t be denied of. An example of infringement of rights
could happen within a health and social care setting is in a hospital and a female patient has
got to change into the hospital gown so that more checks can take place and it is easier
rather than taking clothes off every time. The patient needs to get changed and has a male
doctor who is still in the cubicle where the female patient is why she is getting changed
rather than standing outside the cubicle, the male doctor doesn’t even pull the curtain
around the cubicle therefore everyone who is walking past her can see her getting changed.
The right that has been denied the female patient is the right to privacy. The potential effect
in which this may have on the female is low self-esteem and the loss of her rights. By the
female patient feeling like this they may also feel intimated and scared as she did not get
her basic right to get changed without anyone else being around. As a result of this the
female patient not want to get treated by the male doctor and loss communication with the
medical staff.
Another discriminatory practice is labelling, this means to use words or phrases to label
someone as something rather than just expecting who that person is as well as their
characteristics. This practice is similar to stereotyping this is because it can be used to
discriminate an individual. Labelling is a tag or a name. Labelling doesn’t always have a
negative impact on it and can sometimes be positive. Labelling is when someone uses words
to say what you are as a person. An example of when this could happen with a health and
social setting is in a residentially home where there is an elderly man named Terry who has
a disability called Cerebral Palsy, which effects the way the body can function as an able
Stephanie Joyce Group 1
Lo1-Understand concepts of equality, diversity and rights in relation to health and social
care
Lo2- know the discriminatory practices in health and social care
Discriminatory practice is the act that someone is discriminating against another regarding
their age, culture, race, disability, sexual orientation, or anything else someone believes
they can discriminate against. Discrimination is when thoughts made with prejudice is
influenced to make actions involving the unjust treatment resulting from a prejudice view
In this essay I will explain the different discriminatory practises with examples regarding the
health and social care setting as well as how they affect the service user or the professional.
Infringement of rights means to deny someone’s rights away. Rights are things that as a
human everyone is entitled to and can’t be denied of. An example of infringement of rights
could happen within a health and social care setting is in a hospital and a female patient has
got to change into the hospital gown so that more checks can take place and it is easier
rather than taking clothes off every time. The patient needs to get changed and has a male
doctor who is still in the cubicle where the female patient is why she is getting changed
rather than standing outside the cubicle, the male doctor doesn’t even pull the curtain
around the cubicle therefore everyone who is walking past her can see her getting changed.
The right that has been denied the female patient is the right to privacy. The potential effect
in which this may have on the female is low self-esteem and the loss of her rights. By the
female patient feeling like this they may also feel intimated and scared as she did not get
her basic right to get changed without anyone else being around. As a result of this the
female patient not want to get treated by the male doctor and loss communication with the
medical staff.
Another discriminatory practice is labelling, this means to use words or phrases to label
someone as something rather than just expecting who that person is as well as their
characteristics. This practice is similar to stereotyping this is because it can be used to
discriminate an individual. Labelling is a tag or a name. Labelling doesn’t always have a
negative impact on it and can sometimes be positive. Labelling is when someone uses words
to say what you are as a person. An example of when this could happen with a health and
social setting is in a residentially home where there is an elderly man named Terry who has
a disability called Cerebral Palsy, which effects the way the body can function as an able
Stephanie Joyce Group 1
