Maternal health

But, in contrast to other environmental resources like healthcare and education, nutrition can directly modify gene structure and facilitate genetic factors by providing the specific molecules that enable genes to exert their potential or targeted effects on brain growth and development. The brain is a specialized tissue that depends upon the generation of electrical potentials and their conduction through long axonal components of cell-bodies and through the synaptic gaps between these…

Lifestyle interventions for obesity usually target changes in diet and more physical activity. Through this strategy, an adequate goal enhances adult’s expectations and provides guidance in the use of them having self-regulation skills. The strategies focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Obesity interventions pursue change in the younger generation by educating them on improving their self-image. Espinoza et al (2012) uses statistics from Trust for Public Land (2008) article stating that,…

take in as much information, knowledge and experience in the public/community health field as I am planning to go to nursing school, with hopes of attaining a master in public health and nursing after. I believe blending these careers into one will provide me a great foundation for my goal of working in developing countries internationally possibly focusing on basic health needs and education, maternal and child health, minority/disadvantaged groups. Personally I would like build my confidence…

factors in maternity care. This paper begins with a fundamental point. In the specialist’s practice or the fast-paced maternity unit, the nurse’s goal is to provide care that is patient focused and highly competent so that the pregnancy results in good health for the mother and baby. With that as the foundation, this paper argues that,…

service, not only for improving maternal and newborn health, but also plays a key role in poverty alleviation, contributes to the advancement of women’s rights and choices as well as the general economic development of a country. Family planning allows individuals to attain their desired number of children and determine the spacing and timing of births. Unplanned pregnancies and inadequate child spacing poses a serious threat to both the mother and the child’s health, not to mention that the…

This ethical study will define the limitations of genetic enhancements for children in the theories posited by Julian Savulescu (2007) and Michael Sandel (year?). Savulescu (2007) defines some of the overarching responsibility of parents to use whatever means necessary to improve the lives of their children, which is a moral and ethical obligation in the use of genetic enhancements. However, Sandel (year?) countermands this argument by claiming that parents will more likely use genetic…

Torres Strait Islander Health Survey: 2012-2013, only 39.2% of Indigenous Australians over the age of 15, reported their health to be very good or excellent, while 7.2% considered their health to be poor (ABS, 2013). Additionally, the First Results report identifies several long- term health conditions affecting Indigenous Australians: Asthma (17.5%); ear diseases and hearing loss (12.3%); circulatory and heart disease (12.0%); and diabetes or high sugar levels (8.2%). Further health…

Health and wellness, the ever elusive desire of the centuries unquenched by magic, herbal remedies, or modern medicine, things we take for granted until we no longer have it to the fullest, and the thing for which our profession exists. As a young adult, thoughts of health and wellness do not often grace my consciousness, as it seems distant and far off that difficulties will ever arise. However, this may not the case, and even with that idealistic view in mind, how I live during these years…

One of the important public health issues in improvement counties is family planning, it is correlated with decrees rate of maternal and kids mortality due to the maternal health improvement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The research aim is to assess women's awareness about family planning methods. Family Planning methods is important for women's health through avoiding unwanted pregnancy and its consequences and to increase a healthier and happier generation, rather than…

access to health care, cancer (with reduction), Diabetes, environmental health, HIV/ Aids, immunization and infectious diseases, maternal, infant and child health, mental health, oral health and lastly respiratory health. The substantial amount of health defects in the bordering states of Mexico comes to no surprise. The level of pollution, non-access to health clinics and overall living quality-in comparison to the U.S.A- is unrealistically low. Thus, resulting in severe amounts of health…