Health literacy

When Somali women feel as if though they have an opportunity to take action and improve their health, it gives them hope for themselves and for other people in their community (Personal Communication). Civic Health literacy is being literate in knowing one’s responsibilities and rights (Christina Z., Andrew P., David G., 2006). Somali women aren’t sure of their rights and how they are able to stand up for themselves, however once they do understand they feel empowered and want to help others.…

Introduction: Individuals should seek appropriate and timely medical attention to facilitate early intervention and management of any acute illness or chronic disease (Jin, Sklar, Oh, & Li, 2008). Participation and compliance with prescribed medical treatment is often crucial in preventing further complications and has proven to significantly affect prognosis and best outcomes (Dang, Giordano, & Kim, 2011). After implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the question still persists: What…

a. In my opinion, the Social Distance, and Family and Social Environment are most important to influence the relationship between communication and health outcomes for this woman. The Social Distance, as an intrinsic moderator, refers to the number and importance of dissimilar between physician and patients. In this case, the patient is an Egyptian woman and the physician is White American male. The differences between them are gender and ethnicity, which led the patient feeling embarrassed…

of the digital divide are primarily deliberated in relation with political data, like social capital, inclusion, and support. However the health, disability, and well-being are equally as important, and the benefits outweigh the risks social adversities that seniors may face. For example, these benefits may come from new services for computer-mediated health services. The negatives may be the risks from computer viruses, privacy concerns and even the probability of fraud (Hakkarainen, 2012)…

Health promotion and nursing interventions: Within the public health sector – aboriginal health is a national health priority. There are strategies, actions plans and initiatives that share a focal point of Aboriginal education/employment (Government of Western Australia, n.d.), health maintenance, disease prevention and management. A campaign that shares this goal is that of ‘Close the Gap’, a government funded promotion that employs a focus to reduce indigenous disadvantage with respect to…

monitor my health and wellness with blood work and physical exams. Compared to the Nacirema culture, my health choices target an upstream approach of health care. With their culture in mind, I would urge the people to see visit the medicine men at least once a month until they completely understand their health. It may be difficult to relate this information to the community without being culturally destructive because they may feel like my suggest is targeting them for not being health…

A Master’s degree in Public Health will allow me to address challenges in providing primary care to underserved populations, such as improving health literacy through health education programs. The health education programs will help improve health literacy by providing underserved populations with information on chronic diseases, maintenance of health and wellness, and access to care and services. The programs will help reduce health risk behaviors, such as poor nutrition, lack of physical…

culturally and linguistically appropriate services, etc.? The first standard I have chosen is providing effective, equitable, understandable and respectful quality care and services that are responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health literacy and other communication needs. To me, this standard is defined as providing equal and respectful care to all patients, regardless of their cultural background. The purpose of this standard is to ensure that…

THE NURSING PROFESSION THROUGH INCLUSIVE INFORMATICS AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES INTRODUCTION Delivery of quality health service cannot be achieved without the availability of information, as this often facilitates the making of effective decision on patient’s health. Every nursing activity depends on knowledge based on information. This information includes the knowledge of the job, ability to use modern technology to deliver quality health service, obtaining and communicating assessment and…

each day. Moreover, clinicians hold very deep convictions based on the training and experience that can only be improved using convincing data or information. Clinical outcome is a health state of particular patients. Furthermore, clinical outcome is broadly agreed to measurable changes in the quality of life or health that result from an individuals ' care. Overall, quality of life measures are important across life span whether an individual is healthy, suffers from a chronic illness or…