Health

The Three Greatest Advances in Health Care Science Modern, effective healthcare practices have come about because of decades of scientific advances and innovations shown in clinical trials and other studies to prevent, cure, or alleviate human disease (House of Lords, 2009). The advances have provided nations with access to new or improved therapeutic and diagnostic methods that have the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality thereby improving the quality of life far beyond what was…

As many people know working in any health field is not an easy task. There are many life to death situations and decisions needed to be made to save a person’s life. The schooling is long and hard, and can take many years to accomplish one degree. These factors scare a lot of people away from working in the health field, but they don’t always see the good in it. You could save someone’s life, you’ll most likely always have a job and the pay is well enough to be able to make a living on your own.…

Influence of Health Informatics on Health Care Costs The true effects of health informatics on lowering health care costs are still in the process of evaluation. With the focus on quality health care as part of the national health reform, many organizations have been utilizing the health information technology (HIT)to improve the care process and coordination, meet the compliance requirements, and ultimately, lower the health care costs. In Kudyba (2016), it was reported that health care…

The Conventional Model of Health and Disease is founded upon the division between individuals and risk factors and how both contribute to the concept of health. Individuals have innate characteristics which determine an individual’s degree of susceptibility or resilience to various health threats. In addition, a set of factors exists to interact with the individual, these factors are usually considered possible threats to health, or better known as risks which include health behaviours or…

HEALTH is defined as a state of complete physical and social well being and merely the absence of a disease. SCREENING refers to the examination of group of asymptomatic individuals to detect with high probability of a disease by a typical, inexpensive diagnostic test. Screening tests sort out well persons who probably have disease from those who do not have. Based on composition of health screen it is broadly classified in to three types:-  Standard health screen  Premium health screen …

Thank you for this interesting and germane post of yours. The paradox of health and wellness as you have described in the first paragraph of your post caught my attention. Notably, health is static while wellness is dynamic (Fair, 2011). This is significant because it demonstrates the different factors we have to consider when providing care to our patients and clients. This implies the uniqueness of each patient in our care, thus the need for thorough assessments and individualized plan of…

Health Care Need With an influx of older patients due to the baby boomer generation, I can predict that there will be a increase in the amount of patient care we will have to deliver to a vastly aging population. Not only that, but due to increased medical technology and advances in medicine, people are living longer and surviving injuries at better outcomes and rates. What does this mean for us? We are the next wave of nurses that are going to be employed at facilities that are going to care…

Community Health Plan for Bourbonnais, Illinois It is essential to have a community assessment for population-centered health care. To help in devising a plan for change in a community, a community assessment will help lay the ground work for this change. One must keep in mind that a head to toe assessment is similar to assessing population-centered nursing. It may appear to be a difficult task to assess an entire community, but it is similar to fundamental nursing skills. Performing a community…

Aside from utilizing statistics to describe the distribution of population health, I was also taught how to apply statistics to community health program evaluations. In HLTH391, we utilized quantitative and qualitative survey measures to determine if we reached our set objectives and goals of the health fair. The grant proposal assignment in HLTH490 also required the class to apply statistic and research methods to determine outcome and impact evaluation of the program they were seeking funding…

Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed several versions of a lifelong universal health care system throughout his long tenure, but his efforts were reserved, and with everything else he had on his plate, it's no surprise they fell to a back burner. After his death, Harry Truman took up that torch openly, but he could never bring it…