Health and Social Care Study Essay

Health People 20/20 had introduced me to several topics such as insufficient healthcare resources or illnesses that people endure. I was drawn in by the topic ‘Nutrition and Weight’, because I believe that if one maintains a proper diet, they are less likely to develop certain illnesses. Unfortunately, America, being a prosperous fruitale land, has not developed the necessary resources that would provide individuals the right to a healthy lifestyle. I chose this topic because I would like to…

brought to FSU through the combined efforts of the College of Social Sciences and Public Policy and the Pepper Institute to share his expertise in the topic. He is a professor of Health Policy & Management and is the chair of Social Medicine and his talk certainly increased my understanding of the current healthcare climate that engulfs our country. To start, Dr. Oberlander gave a brief overview of the 20,000-page bill that is the Affordable Care Act. He discussed how Obamacare was simply an…

The Health Resources and Services Administration defines health disparities as population specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or even access to healthcare (Health Resources & Services Administration, 2016, para. 1). Age, race or ethnicity, sex, sexual identity, socioeconomic status, disability, and geographic location all contribute to an individual’s ability to achieve good health. Studies have shown that these groups have higher rates of chronic conditions along…

the right person for the job. Recruitment is a method of attracting and obtaining a group of qualified applicants by making the available jobs known to the community (Dunn, 2010). This can be achieved by advertising in a variety of multi-media and social-media venues, visiting high schools, training centers, and colleges (Dunn, 2010). Recruitment differs from selection in that selection is the obligation of the line manager (Dunn, 2010). Selection is the process of interviewing, choosing,…

the first semester in one of the long-term cares in Toronto. When the clients were unwilling to get up or eat and delay in doing daily activities, the care givers would force them and at some point handle them aggressively or leave them unattended. Secondly, when I saw some heart-wrenching abusive behaviors towards the residential elder clients in a video, ‘BBC Documentary Panorama Behind Closed Doors.’(2014), posted for the online discussion for Health and Aging…

Health Professional: Dietician Roles: the dietician is responsible for providing individualized treatment options and meal plans to clients. Knowledge: Have knowledge in what foods are healthy and what foods are available. Also, they need to know what allergies or food concerns each client may have. Skills: Be able to identify healthy eating and well-being of each client. B. Health Professional: Social Worker Roles: The role of the social worker is to assist families, groups and…

Accessibility to health care has received much attention in the literature over recent years. According to Luo and Wang (2003), access to health care can be looked at from two broad viewpoints: potential versus revealed, and spatial versus aspatial. Potential access is the ability to enter the healthcare system, but does not guarantee service usage. Revealed access on the other hand, looks at the utilization of health care services (Khan, 1992; Phillips & Joseph, 1984). A progression from…

heritage while cholera affected both free blacks and enslaved blacks. Enslaved blacks tended to have higher mortality rates than that of free blacks and whites. Based on recent studies, researchers found that slave mortality rates were about 350 per thousand among slave infants, versus white children.…

not protected against is the social stigma and discrimination that comes along with it. All over Canada, youth are struggling with mental illness, and the services offered to them are not enough to truly help them recover. The problem is that the lives of young people with mental health conditions are often overwhelmed by social stigma, the shame attached to mental illness being viewed…

Family Health Assessment Focus in Gordon’s Eleven Functional Health Patterns According to Edelman, Mandle, & Kudzman (2014), “Families provide the structure for many health-promotion practices; therefore, family assessment informs health-promotion and disease-prevention appraisal” (p. 150). A complete and systematic family health assessment constitutes the base that allow nurses to collect and analyze pertinent information concerning each member of the family, their perception of health,…