Health

Introduction Health informatics specialists are in demand according to the Department of Labor (Hoyt, 2014). These specialists work within the field of health informatics which is “an information science that is concerned with the management of healthcare data and information using a variety of technologies” (Hoyt, 2014, p.v). The purpose of this paper is to define what health informatics is, to list what careers and competencies are needed for this study, and outline how all the different…

Living conditions during the 1930s were some of the most difficult in US history, and the health of the nation was a major concern. With food and money both being scarce, hard choices would have to be made with some regularity. Staying healthy to support others in your care would be a necessity, along with assuring the rest of your family remained healthy to avoid additional hardships. During this time, the available options for healthcare and medical services weren’t immediately evident. With…

comfort of their homes, they begin to develop poor mental and physical health. Mental health is defined by dictionary.com as the psychological well-being and adjustment to society. Physical health is the well-being of one’s body. Both mental and physical health affect a person in different ways, but can be related to each other. Mental health can involve something as miniscule as homesickness and stress. Whereas physical health deals with physical well-being such as common illnesses known as the…

This argument claims that North Americans suffer 9 times more chronic fatigue and 31 times more chronic depression compared to the Asians. Stated this way the argument manipulates the facts and convey a distorted view of the situation. Argument is based on poor reasoning of comparing Asians with North Americans based on the food habits especially soy. It also fails to mention the key factors which contribute to the chronic illness. The conclusion of the argument relies on the assumptions for…

Mental Health policies within Public Health are more prominent today than they were ten years ago, however, there are still a lot of gaps when it comes to children with mental illnesses. “It is estimated that one of every five children and adolescents in the United States has a mental disorder” (Kataoka, 2002). All across the United States, different states have different policies regarding access and availability to mental health professionals. Many states have policies requiring children to…

HLTH 330: Health informatics Winter 2015 Instructor: Joon Lee Date: April 6th 2015 The future of medicine will soon move from the doctor’s office to the hands of individuals. Literally speaking, health can be monitored through wireless technology, more specifically smartphones. The main idea of Eric Topol’s (2009) talk is using wireless devices to advance health technology in order to reduce the number of occupied hospital beds. Through wireless health technology, health…

Health forecasting is a unique region of forecasting, and an important apparatus for foreseeing future health occasions or circumstances (Lewis, McGrath & Seidel 2011) for instance, requesting for health services or social insurance needs. Forecasting, encourages preventive pharmaceutical and social insurance intercession systems, by pre-illuminating health providers to take suitable alleviating activities, which minimize chances and oversee request. Health forecasting requires reliable…

geographic, civic, and some social parameters. There are many varies characteristics in a communities and their health needs, also the health of a community is determined by the extend or the degree at which the community collective health needs are identified and eventually met. In this case the community health care nurse will assess the health of the community by identifying the key health needs and issues of that community through a systematic, comprehensive data collection and analysis. The…

Health Informatics and Health Information Technology: Competencies required in the field Introduction Third compared to heart disease and cancer, respectively, deaths due to medical errors is a more insidious killer in the United States (McCann, 2014). Approximately “98,000 Americans per year die due to medical errors” (Kohn, 2000, p. 2). Currently, physicians are inundated with high-volumes of patient care information as a result of clinical research, and this “can easily overwhelm the…

Significant concerns confronting Australian society are the inequities in health between socioeconomic (SES) groups which result in lower SES groups having significantly higher rates of morbidity and mortality at an earlier age. Follow Table 1 to apply the SI template to analyse the construction of this problem for a disadvantaged group in Australia and reflect on the social model of health to reduce these inequities. Step 2 In 1998, South Korea, which is my native country, experienced critical…