Illness

Sexual networks refer to “groups of people who can be considered “linked” by sequential or concurrent sexual partners” (HealthyPeople.gov). A person may have only 1 sex partner, but if his/hers partner is engaging in high sexual risk activities, then the person is at higher risk for STDs than a similar individual from a non-risky network (HealthyPeople.gov). Perhaps the most important social factors contributing to the spread of STDs in all communities is sexuality and secrecy. The stigma…

brain and also people were beginning to discover that the brain can mess up. Mental illness was seen as a problem in society. As a problem that became more and more prevalent, people began to look for a solution. The only issue with looking for a solution was that no one had known where to look. The lack of medical education led to both misdiagnosis and mistreatment of people. The past knowledge of mental illness was based heavily in religion, only partially relying on simple science. It was…

Many people who have a mental illness feel that it is something to be ashamed of due to the stigma associated with mental health. How horrible would it be if someone looked a cancer patient in the eye and said “it’s just cancer, get over it”. That is the kind of thing that happens daily to people with mental illness. A person fighting his or her mental illness is in a fight for his or her life just as a person battling cancer is. The biggest issue with that is when society stigmatizes people…

personal experience with family members, that mental illness is a topic that interests me immensely. In my lessons I learned how mental illness is treated and theories about how it is caused, such as the biological approach which suggests that mental illness is caused by changes to the brain or neurotransmitters. For example, there is evidence to suggest that depression is caused by the lack of serotonin in the body. My interest in mental illness stemmed from when I found out my aunt suffered…

With the rise in chronic illness case management is an essential part of nursing practice. Case management coordinates patient care through assessment planning, assisting, and evaluating to ensure excellent patient outcomes. One of the technologies available for case management is the use of the free mobile warning system from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A patient care provider can instruct patient with pulmonary problems such as patients with asthma, emphysema, COPD to download…

how mental illness occurs. For example, autism has low brain growth and connectivity in the channels of the brain. Depression has a certain region of the brain more active than others. However scientists are still unsure about how it works. Only continued exploration will give light to more answers (“The Roots of Mental Illness”). However it is mentioned that depression is related…

Measuring health- Health and illness is measured by statistical trends. There are three main causes to this. Firstly is the government statistics. It is when the Office of National Statistics takes responsibility for the recent information’s about the health and care issues around the world. The periodicals involves the Social Trends, Population Trends and more trends that is involved with health and illness. All of the periodicals also takes responsibility for the birth, death, infant…

There is an ever present negative stigma against those suffering from mental illnesses in the world today. Even though around 1 in every 4 people, aged 18 or older, suffer from a diagnosable mental illness, most of the population still view these people with distrust and even worse, disgust. In order to stop this stigma we must first admit that there is one and see the full extent of it. In doing this we find ways to address the problem and educate the population in ways that will…

ethnic backgrounds to their own. However, with the changing dynamics of the world, the ethnic and cultural compositions of communities have now become cosmopolitan. Different cultures have different systems of health beliefs to explain what causes illness, how it can be cured or treated, and who should be involved in the process. The extent to which patients perceive patient education as having cultural relevance for them can have a profound effect on their reception to information provided by…

afraid to work on the men’s unit, I got over that quick. I think the patients where more afraid of me then I was of them. My profession calls for more than a discharge plan; I learned that early in the internship. My first day of working at the agency, I knew that some of the patients did not have a stable and loving environment. I started working on a plan to build a healthy relationship of trust so all the patients will open up enough to trust what I was trying my intentions and not shut down…