Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Behavior, genetic, and environment are factors that can influence whether a person is overweight or obese. To determine if a person is at a healthy weight, the “body mass index” (BMI) is commonly used for calculation because it correlates their amount of body fat. An adult who has a BMI between 25 and 29.9 is categorized as overweight whereas an adult who has a BMI of 30 or higher is considered as obese. Studies based from 2008 Behavioral risk factor surveillance system, adults who are obese are…

A community health needs assessment is vital as it provides information upon which action to improve the overall health of a community can be based. It provides the health status of a community describes the factors influencing health and identifies the available resources that can be channeled towards the improvement of the community’s health. The assessment, therefore, identifies health challenges and ensures that resources are applied towards the solution of these challenges. I conducted a…

impacted by other forces including religious values, gender, and other cultural factors. Social Disorganization Theory Robert Ezra Park spent a considerable amount of time during his career, as a journalist and later a social scientist, observing the strife urban communities, especial with regards to policing urban communities. This work is foundational to helping Park form his theories in human ecology and urban cultural systems (Mutchnick et al, 1990). Park’s work emphasizing urban group…

Needs Assessment As with any different health problem, there are disparities among different races and ethnicities. While in many cases, a disease will not distinguish between races, the causes of the disease or access to medical care will. Throughout this assessment, the paper will look at the problem of obesity among minority groups and how there is a need for increasing physical activity and providing healthier food options. Within this, the major focus will be on the Hispanic and…

Binge drinking in early ages and college years creates problems in individual’s quality of life. Learning about the possible causes, education about the psychological and physical problems which are linked with binge drinking, and prevention methods are the key options to reduce binge drinking rates among college students and children. In order to address binge drinking and its consequences we will discuss the background information, intervention methods and our decision process of the preparing…

outbreak while I was a senior in high school in Nigeria, West Africa; the death of my favorite uncle from the co-infection of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, tailored my career towards communicable diseases and public health. The failures of public health system; a norm in Sub–Saharan Africa which account for why Africa had, and still has the highest number of casualties from communicable diseases, is the reason why I have an interest in public…

period, ANTHC achieved policy change in two ways, first, by contributing to updating the Alaska Community Health Aide practitioner manual to include cultural competency, and by getting Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) included in the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance…

Insomnia is a sleep disorder where individuals have a hard time staying and falling asleep. The development of insomnia can lead to detrimental consequences for individuals with anxiety. The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey reported 48% individuals indicated they fell asleep accidently during the day at least once in the past month and 4.7% indicated they fell asleep behind the wheel in the past month (Centers For Disease Control and Prevention)…

seen making waves in Europe, Germany, and Australia. Vasanti S. Malik explains that “the worldwide increase in obesity and related chronic diseases has largely been driven by global trade liberalization, economic growth and rapid urbanization. These factors continue to fuel dramatic changes in living environments, diets, and lifestyles in ways that promote positive energy balance” (Malik, Willett, & Hu, 2012, p. 13). Obese children are more likely to suffer from health complications, and these…

fear evokes the fight or flight response in the body. This response system is the body’s normal way of coping with situations where you fear for your…