Small, rural town of Cobleskill, NY, where there is only one hospital in a 40-mile vicinity, and one or two doctors’ offices. Cobleskill Regional Hospital, the only hospital in this vicinity. In Schoharie County, the residences that live there have the ability to utilize primary care services, as well as preventative care and pre and postnatal care also outpatient services. Not only did I look at what the patient received, but how their experience was and the hospitals ability to perform. Health care and its quality are important in any society, priorities and objectives that are targeted to one audience allow for providers to change how they practice and provide. Schoharie county, population about 32,000, with an average age of 43.4 years’
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These two preventable diseases may not seem easy to defeat, but changing environments that induce people to be unhealthy would have a great impact. The way that CRH plans to combat obesity for children and adults relies on their compliance along with the environments they are in during their days. For example, ways to prevent and get ahead of childhood obesity is to enact early child-care and get the schools to join the fight (Bassett Healthcare Network, n.d.). This could be done through having the children do or provide more exercise opportunity, whether it be through long gym classes or just simply more activities during class time. To combat overall obesity in a community there are several suggestions that could help. For example, trying to bring in a farmer’s market so that people will have the ability to get fresh fruits and vegetables, while also trying to get runs/walks sponsored to help inspire people to be more active. When it comes to trying to beat adult obesity it is important for them to gain knowledge about what obesity does to the body, along with how they can become healthy. For example, bringing the competition to lose weight in a work environment could encourage employees to work together so the end result could be lower health insurance and better quality of life. Obesity is an easily …show more content…
At CRH the hospital wants to take an initiative to prevent tobacco use among youth and young adults, along with people in low socioeconomic status (Bassett Healthcare Network, n.d.). Most buildings in New York are smoke free within 50-100 feet of the building, while on college campus’ there is no smoking and they are smoke free campus’. Because we want to lower and prevent young smokers making punishments harsher when a person is caught smoking near schools, colleges or business, young people may think twice and prevent young smokers. If we also look at laws like the age a person has to be to buy cigarettes, then how are underage children and young adult obtaining them? A solution might be to make prosecute the person for providing the cigarette to the child, which in turn would discourage them to buy the cigarettes for the young adults and the low income people. Cigarettes are just one preventable disease among many that health care providers and communities need to take a stand on and
These two preventable diseases may not seem easy to defeat, but changing environments that induce people to be unhealthy would have a great impact. The way that CRH plans to combat obesity for children and adults relies on their compliance along with the environments they are in during their days. For example, ways to prevent and get ahead of childhood obesity is to enact early child-care and get the schools to join the fight (Bassett Healthcare Network, n.d.). This could be done through having the children do or provide more exercise opportunity, whether it be through long gym classes or just simply more activities during class time. To combat overall obesity in a community there are several suggestions that could help. For example, trying to bring in a farmer’s market so that people will have the ability to get fresh fruits and vegetables, while also trying to get runs/walks sponsored to help inspire people to be more active. When it comes to trying to beat adult obesity it is important for them to gain knowledge about what obesity does to the body, along with how they can become healthy. For example, bringing the competition to lose weight in a work environment could encourage employees to work together so the end result could be lower health insurance and better quality of life. Obesity is an easily …show more content…
At CRH the hospital wants to take an initiative to prevent tobacco use among youth and young adults, along with people in low socioeconomic status (Bassett Healthcare Network, n.d.). Most buildings in New York are smoke free within 50-100 feet of the building, while on college campus’ there is no smoking and they are smoke free campus’. Because we want to lower and prevent young smokers making punishments harsher when a person is caught smoking near schools, colleges or business, young people may think twice and prevent young smokers. If we also look at laws like the age a person has to be to buy cigarettes, then how are underage children and young adult obtaining them? A solution might be to make prosecute the person for providing the cigarette to the child, which in turn would discourage them to buy the cigarettes for the young adults and the low income people. Cigarettes are just one preventable disease among many that health care providers and communities need to take a stand on and