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success. People enjoyed playing, and some participants were even quite shocked at the alcohol facts. Some participants went as far as talking about rethinking their drinking habits after hearing long terms effects of alcohol. They were even quite intrigued to hear the lesser known facts, such that long term alcohol abuse can eventually lead to lung damage. “The most common and identifiable alcohol-associated health problems include liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, cardiomyopathies, neuropathies,…

The Affordable Care Act Looking back before The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was made available, Americans were denied access to certain insurance companies because of a current illness they had or if they were too old. Either Americans were denied access or their health care insurance premiums sky rocketed. President Obama came up with the ACA to help low-income Americans have access to cheaper health care, even if it meant to have some people not agree with his decision. ACA has nine titles…

for all the population? How about patients requiring long term care? Are they protected by this Act? According to the Centers for Disease Control(CDC), in 2012, about 58,500 of long term care facilities are regulated, these served about 8 million people throughout the USA. One of the problems that the United States healthcare system is facing in regard to…

PDHPE 1) Debate the issue raised in “That Sugar Movie” that excess sugar consumption is to blame for the increasing obesity rate. Many people are claiming that excess sugar creating a ‘bad’ diet is more dangerous then alcohol, inactivity and smoking. In fact, studies have shown that an unhealthy diet consisting of lots of sugar causes more disease then all three of the previously mentioned components combined. (Group, 2017) There is much more evidence to support the fact that sugar is a huge…

types of effects that heavy drinking can cause: short term and long term (Long Term and Short Term Effects of Alcohol, 2006). Some of the short term effects include impaired judgement, slurred speech, blurred vision, headaches, memory lapses, and several others (Long Term and Short Term Effects of Alcohol, 2006). These things can all lead to decisions that can affect personal relationships, work performance, and other aspects of life. Some long term effects of binge drinking are: nerve damage,…

Unlike in the United States, people who are living in poverty do not have to worry about whether they can afford healthcare. Those who make less than $68,336 a year automatically receive benefits through SHI (Clarke & Bidgood, 2013). Premiums are based on financial ability rather than age, gender or certain health risks (Rychlik, Guntertgomann, Kilburg, & Frazier, 2000). Low-income households are only required to pay 1% of their income out-of-pocket compared to the 2% that other households are…

close relatives or friends regularly. Other causes of alcohol abuse include mental issues, peer pressure, low self-esteem, a stressful lifestyle and sexual or physical abuse. It must be noted that becoming an alcoholic doesn’t happen overnight, it is a long process that builds up overtime. 3.1 Symptoms of alcohol abuse The symptoms of a drinking problem are often first noticed by family members or close friends, not the drinkers themselves. Some of the most common symptoms are drinking even…

The long-term insurance package is primarily beneficial for people at a more advanced age than Aden. Most individuals of Aden’s age cannot adequately and accurately predict what their health outcomes would look like in the future. As such, they would want to take up the insurance plans at the age of 65 and above. This is because it could be too early for Aden to decide if the long-term care insurance package is good for him or if he even needs…

many cases where alcohol is the problem, especially when underage drinking is involved. Underage drinking has become a serious threat to our society and to the future of our generation because of its serious immediate consequences and life changing long term effects. “Annually, about 5,000 people under age 21 die from alcohol-related injuries involving underage drinking”(“Consequences of Underage Drinking”). This is just one example of the bad effects underage drinking has. Not only does…

diseased. If one is sick, without the money they have little to no chance of being cured. Wasting important funding on an experiment, at best, could harbor terrible outcomes. If people vote yes for artificial intelligence, they can cause negative long-term effects for the patient or patient's, waste the government’s medical money, or cause overall mayhem throughout the world. Starting off, anger can cause one to perform rash actions. To begin with, if someone can not afford the intellect…