Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

factors involved in its development: genetic, behavioral, cultural, environmental, and economic [sup][1] . Endogenous obesity is in some cases regarded as a risk factor and in others as a disease in itself. There is a growing body of evidence of the impact of obesity in many disorders, including cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, and even some types of cancer [sup][2] ." (Saavedra, 2014). Treatment Adherence to Treatment Process Misty is adhering to her treatment…

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public health and disease prevention. A fundamental component of ongoing healthcare reform efforts must center on creating a system that improves health and promotes healthy behaviors, beyond just diagnosing and treating disease. Chronic disease affects health and quality of life, but it is also a major driver of health care costs and has a related impact on businesses. It is estimated that nearly half of all American suffer from at least one of the top chronic diseases, heart disease,…

Background The United States spends more in total and per person on healthcare than any other nation in the world and yields arguably mediocre results. It’s generally not argued that the solution is to spend more on healthcare but rather find a way to spend the money that is allocated to healthcare more efficiently. It’s possible to both lower health care expenditures and maintain a high standard for healthcare in the US. Value-Based Insurance Design is one such solution to the problem of…

Preoperative evaluation Cardiac surgery, including coronary artery bypass grafting and surgery for valvular disease, represents one of the most common classes of surgical procedures performed worldwide. Advances in the percutaneous management of coronary artery disease as well as in cardiac surgical techniques have led to improved outcomes with consequent longer life expectancy for patients. Greater numbers of patients with depressed left ventricular function, multiple comorbidities, failed…

The Left Ventricular Assist Device Congestive heart failure is defined as a disease that develops when the heart is unable to pump enough blood through the body to sustain life. It is estimated that there are currently over five million people in the United States suffering from heart failure (Trivedi, Cheng, Singh, Williams, & Slaughter, 2014). For a patient with heart failure, the best hope of survival is a heart transplant (Dumitru, 2015). Unfortunately, heart transplants are not always…

Abstract The paper is about the current state of knowledge about the Value-based purchasing (VBP). It implies to a full arrangement of performance-based payment strategies that connect financial incentives to therapeutic services providers’ performance on an arrangement of characterized measures with an end goal to accomplish better esteem. Three sorts of VBP models were the concentration of the review: (1) pay-for-performance programs, (2) accountable care organizations, and (3) bundled payment…

Who is affected? “Crohn’s Disease can affect as many as 780,000 Americans, and is most likely to affect both men and women. While Crohn’s Disease can happen at any age, the disease is more common with adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 35” (Crohn’s & Colitis, n.d.). Although it can affect anyone, Crohn’s tends to affect people of different ethnic groups such as “African-Americans, Caucasians, and Jewish people of European descent than Asians and Latinos” (Crohn’s & Colitis,…

He also revealed that he was "suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)" says Biography.com editors. This caused his death on February 27 of 2016 but he got to inspire people one last time before he died when he tweeted "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except…

U.S. Demographics This assignment discusses the current U.S. Demographics, the influence the demographics will have on nursing, and how nursing will be able to meet the challenges of a large group of aging citizens. Current U.S. Demographics According to the United States Census Bureau the current U.S. demographics includes a population estimate total of 321,418,820 for the entire United States. Within the total population estimate, 50.8% is female, 6.2% is less than 5 years old, 23.1% is less…