Health and Social

health and social

A03: creating a Positive Environment

What is Individual Practitioners?

One who practices something, especially an occupation, profession, or technique.

Refernece: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/practitioner

A health care provider is an individual or an institution that provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to individuals, families or communities.

An individual health care provider (also known as a health worker) may be a health care professional within medicine, nursing, or allied health professions. Health care providers may also be a public/community health professional. Institutions (also known as health facilities) include hospitals, clinics, primary care centres, and other service delivery points. The practice of health professionals and operation of health care institutions is typically regulated by national or state/provincial authorities through appropriate regulatory bodies for purposes of quality assurance.Together, they form part of an overall healthcare system.

Refernece : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_provider

What is socialisation?

Basically, socialisation is a general term for the many different ways and processes by which children come to be able to function as members of their social community. It is in part a process of learning and in part a process of being taught, but modern views of socialisation also stress the active role of children in making sense of their social world, and constructing their own ways of being part of their social group. There are also strong predispositions, visible even in very young infants, to engage and interact with other people in preference to all the other objects in the world. Infants seem to be born as social beings.

A large part of what goes on between parents and their children, in all cultures that have ever been studied, is to do with ‘training’ children in the ways of the culture, not just in ways of...