In his book, The Land of Open Graves, Jason De Leon explores the policy of ‘Prevention through Deterrence,’ implemented by the government of the US, which aims at decreasing the number of undocumented migrants crossing the US-Mexico border. Prevention through Deterrence focuses on implementing strict border policies on ports of entry, successfully diverging the traffic to the deadly Arizona desert, where migrants have to hide from the border patrol and deal with the climate at the same time. Although the policy was supposedly implemented to decrease the number of people taking up the journey, it has rather increased the scale of sufferings of the migrants, having little or no effect on their number. The impact of the desert often results in…
Finally, advocating for smoking cessation is an additional nursing intervention. Using tobacco increases the risk of heart disease and the harmful effects of smoking can also cause other diseases. Delivering education and increasing awareness on the adverse effects of smoking to the community is central. Smoking cessation programs, educational material, and counseling can be provided to the community through local support groups, library, hospital, and churches. In addressing modifiable risk factors and increasing awareness of heart disease to the community, it can reduce mortality and optimize health, for Healthy People…
Health development is what public health professionals attempt to attain. According to the CDC (1999), “effective program evaluation is a systematic way to improve and account for public health actions by involving procedures that are useful, feasible, ethical, and accurate”. The six methodological steps from the proposed framework that will be used to evaluate the Tuskegee case study include: description of the public health intervention, specification and modification of the normative criteria, evaluation of the public health intervention, overall evaluation or synthesis of the public health intervention, generating recommendations, and monitoring.…
Suicides occur across every segment of the force and Army leadership is committed to reversing the trend of increasing suicidal behavior. Tank Automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) Life Cycle Material Command (LCMC) Suicide Awareness Response Center (SARC) ensures our Soldiers and Department of the Army (DA) Civilians are informed and educated on the risk factors and warning signs of suicide as well as how to provide assistance and/or intervention. TACOM LCMC SARC provides the resources needed to assist soldiers and DA Civilians with identifying warning signs of suicide. These resources include but not limited to a National suicide Prevention lifeline, Military Crisis Line, and Army Strong ACE Cards.…
Chronic illness is a term applied to an illness that is long lasting and has persistent signs and symptoms. In Australia one in five Australians are affected by multiple chronic diseases. (Australian Government: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2015) Emily suffers from two chronic diseases that affect her daily living. When caring for individuals who suffer from chronic diseases the three guiding principles should be used and health professionals should utilise the different interdisciplinary staff that may be helpful. GUIDING PRINCIPLES…
Explain how individuals experience discrimination due to misinformation, assumptions and stereotypes about mental ill health? People with mental health get misjudged because of things they could of seen or read that doesn’t give you the correct information. Normally people with mental health are seen as scary or un trustable because people thing they could turn any moment this is wrong as things in movies or tv shows have made out the person with mental health to be the bad guy. 2.2 Explain how mental ill health may have an impact on the individual including: A, psychological and emotional They can lose self-esteem, self-confidence, and can also let their appearance go. B, practical and financial…
PICOT Question The Population (P), intervention (I), Comparison or control (C), Outcome (O), and Timeframe (T) format was utilized to develop the project question, which guided the search for literature (Riva et al., 2012). The PICOT question devised for this evidence-based project is: For the hypertensive adult patients in the outpatient medical clinic (P), will the implementation of a HBPM and nurse-led educational follow-up program (I) compared to no educational component (C) increase patient adherence to prescribed life-style modification and improve patient outcomes (O) over an eight-week timeframe (T)? Population…
Per the week 4 lecture, the five elements to consider when determining if my intervention plan is appropriate to my health promotion problem and patient population are access, cost, time, culture and education. I will see if the patient has access to the care they need, at what cost and who’s expense. Also, determine location and the distance with the consideration of their education level and provide information based on their understanding and their cultural preferences and values. Furthermore, I will always keep in mind that Health Promotion is a continuing care that always require planning and doing while integrating patient family and…
Psychological to the physical problems tobacco causes effects every person in the mission by shifting the focus and having to take a step back to mitigate risks and hazards from deprived…
Fuchs and Fuchs (2007); on the other hand, have a slightly different view. Since their view focused more on preventative intervention strategies (e.g.,…
HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT INTRODUCTION The World Health Organisation (WHO) (2016) defines Health Impact Assessment (HIA) as “Assessment of the change in health risk reasonably attributable to a project, programme or policy and undertaken for a specific purpose”. Health impact assessments identifies both negative and positive impact a proposed intervention will have on the health and wellbeing of the target population (Western Australia Department of Health (WADH 2011). This happens during the planning stages of the proposed intervention and helps influence the decision making process in regards to whether the plan is feasible or not (WADH 2011).…
Two significant events set a precedent for creating reforms and programs for the workplace, which were Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire and Gauley Bridge Disaster. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire took 146 women lives. The incident took place March 25, 1911 in New York City on a Saturday afternoon. Usually on a typical day, the bosses would lock the doors and stairwells so the women could not leave their station and/or sewing machine. The fire broke out on the 8th floor, Eva Harris, one of the workers screamed “Fire!” and the manager, Samuel Bernstein grabbed buckets of water, but the fire spread at a fast rate (Greene, Drehel).…
Tertiary prevention focuses on the offender after crime has happen, with the main focus being on deterrence and rehabilitation to prevent from re-offending. Tertiary prevention reduces the recidivism rate and insures that appropriate steps are taken so that the victim is not re-victimized. In the United States the primary form of tertiary prevention is incapacitation. Tertiary prevention does not stop criminals from committing crimes after their release but protects the population from victimization of criminals. Specific deterrence is achieved by instilling fear into individuals that are being punished with the prevention of the individual from future violations of the law.…
The PRECEDE/PROCEED Model The PRECEDE-PROCEED Model, is an eight-phase framework used by public health professionals. It provides a comprehensive plan for assessing health and quality of life needs as well as provides a method for designing, implementing, and evaluating health interventions and/or programs. Originally, the model only included the PRECEDE portion of the acronym, but in the 1980’s it became necessary to expand the model to be more comprehensive and to provide a stronger emphasis on prevention. Therefore, PROCEED became an additional part of the acronym.…
General Goal: To Persuade Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to stop smoking. Thesis Statement: The harmful effects smoking has on your body can be reversed if you stop smoking today. I. INTRODUCTION I. “I’m more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I’ve done in my life, including winning an Oscar “, Christine Lahti. “I stopped smoking.…