Health

number increases every day (Nieves). While health care for mentally challenged individuals in the United States has improved since colonial times, their care today is still insufficient. Mentally ill individuals have endured a long history of misdiagnosis, ostracization, controversial therapies, and failed government intervention, all of which contribute to the inadequacy of current mental health care. Mental…

Specified objectives: #1 Describe the characteristics of the community health nursing #2 Apply the roles of the professional nurse to community setting #6 Assess factors that affect family health and its impact on individuals, families, and aggregates in their community #8 Assess a selected community and develop a plan to address health problems in the community Description: As I arrived to Lansdale Catholic high school I pulled into a large parking lot with a beautiful field out back.…

The field of health can be compared to an arena wherein various team members with different strengths join efforts towards a common greater goal- the well-being of the patient in all facets. Thus, it is the dynamics and ‘demographics’ of the team which yields progress; or as Hippocrates (460 BC) stated, “Forces within us are the true healers of disease.” Consequently, by reflecting on my visits to health centres and the teams of professionals that I was exposed to; an improved understanding of…

Over the last decades, research has showed that health literacy is closely correlated with individual’s health, social and economic status. Surprisingly, according to the data from International Adult Literacy and Skills Survey 2003, Green and Riddell report that approximately 42 % of Canadians between the ages of 16 and 65 years fail to achieve reading level required for high school completion in Canada (Green, Riddell, 2003). This reading level requires the respondents to understand a sentence…

There are additional challenges that are specific to healthcare. Healthcare data are bound by strict privacy rules govern by federal regulations, most notably Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) (Hirsch & Deixler, 2014). The rules are complex, and the penalties are high for violations. The federal government is concerned about privacy violations with the development of digital records and, in January 2013, expanded privacy coverage in the omnibus rule amending HIPPA,…

element of the Military Health System comes together to make the difference between life and death. Army, Navy and Air Force medical professionals help ensure those in uniform are medically ready to deploy anywhere around the globe on a moment's notice. And these medical professionals are also ready to go with them. There isn’t another military medical force like it in the world with the expertise, the assets and the global reach of our health system. The military health system is the people we…

CSA has been linked to mental health issues in the victim’s adult lives such as depression, PTSD, and anxiety to mention a few (Johnson, Pike and Chard, 2001). It was found that women who had a history of CSA are more likely to experience these outcomes than those women who were not abused (Romans, Martin, and Mullen, 1997). In a study conducted by Catan and Sossalla (2015), a sample of 56 volunteers who were at a welfare center who attended people with intellectual disabilities was gathered.…

Addiction in Health Professionals Going to see a doctor is an essential part of any modern day lifestyle. Over the past 100 years because of advances in modern medicine the average lifespan has drastically increased. So naturally it follows that people would trust that their doctors and other medical professionals are going to do the right thing to treat any medical conditions. Would patients still choose the doctor if they knew their doctor had an active addiction problem that could put their…

that spread thanks to globalization. Likewise, introducing new technology (like canals) or new crops to an area can give disease-bearing vectors everything they need to afflict human beings over a wider area. Despite these negative impacts on public health, any steps to reduce the flow of people, food, and goods would ultimately make many more people worse off than those affected by illness. Food and goods prices would rise, making more people susceptible to disease due to poor diet or lack of…

Plausible Definition for Health Disparities Definitions of the terms thrown around public health professionals are often heard but not understood. Nonetheless, they tend to understand the overall drift of what public health professionals are attempting to convey. Paula Braveman discusses the importance of definitions of these core concepts of public health because of the implications they may have. One may think how extraneous it is to contest a definition of a concept like health disparities;…