Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System

Bonney R. J. (2006). Farm animal welfare at work. Applied Animal Behavior Science, 100(1-2), 140-147. doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2006.04.007 In this article, Roland James Bonney discusses the problems associated with animal welfare on farms. Bonney references studies done from the Food Animal Initiative (2001) regarding their approach to improving animal welfare on farms, using ethical treatment and science to understand and develop practical solutions to solve supply standards and improvement of…

Health inequalities, experienced by various individuals or groups in society, can be the result of genetic and biological factors, choices made or by chance, but mostly they are because of unequal access to socio-economic factors such as income, education, employment and social supports. These socio-economic determinants strongly interact to influence health and an improvement in any of these can produce an improvement in both health behaviour and outcomes among individuals and groups (WHO 2003)…

brought rise to the tobacco industry and essentially introduced Americans to tobacco use. More predominately, Americans’ cigarette consumption was on a rapid incline. A significant amount of Americans were smoking, yet only about 40% knew the health risks of smoking cigarettes (Graham, 2012). Americans remained ill-informed until the 1960’s when healthcare professionals began shining a negative light on the health consequences of smoking. On January 11, 1964, the Surgeon General’s Advisory…

Services, 2016). This number is extremely high if you take into account that the majority of these infections are preventable with the proper care. These infections are causing increased costs for the patient and facility. They also have the increased risk of becoming antibiotic resistant like the diseases of pneumococcus, gonococcus, and tuberculosis (Kirkwood & Riegelman, 2015). The infections vary from having to do with a central line to a surgical site…

can stimulate the autonomic nervous system. Cause dizziness, high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, obesity, stomach ulcers. When a person falls into a prolonged stress their health worsened due to an imbalance of hormones. When stress increase will cause many physical symptoms such as headaches, back pain, fatigue and chronic stress these causes wear and tear on the body, too. Stress may also cause disease, either because of changes in the body increased risk of coronary disease. Other…

Food is simply what people put into their stomach when they feel hungry. However, African Americans who lived under slavery often times couldn't even accomplish the basic task of acquiring food as easily as we do today. Now I am here taking African American Studies class and learning about all the difficulties African Americans had to go through over the years. When we were discussing the conditions of African American families and how they survived under these circumstances through subsistence…

from the primary site of origin. * Those that make the cell immortal so that the abnormal cell refuses to die. Hormonal changes Notable among these are changes in the female hormone levels estrogen. Excess estrogen promotes uterine cancer. Immune system dysfunction Impaired immunity including HIV infection leads to several cancers including Kaposi's sarcoma, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and HPV-associated malignancies such as anal cancer and cervical cancer. 6.Cancer Symptoms Cancers are a group…

Racial Discrimination: Mental health effects of Discrimination “Racial Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.” -Martin Luther King, Junior. Racial discrimination is all over the world from America to North Korea. Racial discrimination is the struggle people have to face every day white, black and Asian all ethics it’s just a problem people have…

promote nursing leadership, such as systems management, quality improvement and data-driven decision making (Nursing.org, 2017). The DNP delivers practice-based training on the clinical applications of higher-level nursing knowledge (Nursing.org, 2017). The American Association of College of Nurses (AACN) recognizes the DNP as a minimum standard of education for all advanced practice specialists (Nursing.org, 2017). Due to the evolving U.S. healthcare system, the DNP is expected to take on more…

P., Partyka, G., Jensen, K. M., Devine, O. J., Rasmussen, S. A., McCabe, L. L., & McCabe, E. B., 2013). Most studies only focus on the surveillance data from births, and are based on about one-third of the U. S. population, nor is there a regular follow up within the registry systems to account for deaths from down syndrome, so there is not a truly reliable estimate of the actual prevalence in the U.S. of down syndrome (Presson, A. P., Partyka, G., et al.,…