ETHNIC POLICY FOR DISSERTATION

ETHNIC POLICY FOR DISSERTATION

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Background to the study

The friendly and generous reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers is termed as hospitality.

While hospitality means hospitable treatment, reception, or disposition, friendly, welcoming, and generous treatment offered to guests or strangers.

Hospital is an institution for diagnosing, treating the sick or injured, housing them during treatment, examining patients, and managing childbirth. They may be public (government-owned) or private (profit-making or not-for-profit). They may also be general, accepting all types of medical or surgical cases, or special (e.g., children’s hospitals, mental hospitals), limiting service to a single type of patient or illness. It is also said to be a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Usually funded by the public sector, health organizations (for profit or nonprofit), health insurance companies, or charities, including direct charitable donations. Hospitals were historically founded and funded by religious orders or charitable individuals and leaders. Today, they are largely staffed by professional physicians, surgeons, and nurses, whereas in the past, this work was usually performed by the founding religious orders or by volunteers.

Hospitality and food within hospitals will to some extent vary. As mentioned initially, private hospitals are in most instances profit making. Their setup will consist of quality services and apparatus mainly to attract more customers through the services offered. Therefore, the quality of foodstuff in private hospitals will be to a larger extent be good. This is also attributed to the number of patients being handled by the hospital at a particular time. The lesser the number, the higher the quality of services based on the rate of charges for diseases an individual is diagnosed for. On the other hand, public hospitals are in most cases government owned. The quality of services offered may be sligh.............