New Public Management

Another obesity strategy has been published in October 2011 ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People: A call to action on obesity in England’, with a new target in reducing the excess weight of the adults by 2020. The strategy stated obesity is everyone’s concern and each individual is responsible for their own health and change their behaviour to lose health (DOH 2011). Additionally, researchers found obesity is strongly linked to increased food portions, food type, food packing and labelling. Food…

trial periods and drug lag for drugs helping “life-threatening conditions,” the average drug review period was still over a year. FDA management was struggling to decrease review times across the board with the added pressure of severe cuts to its budget, set by Congress. During the same time when staffers were decreased from 8,200 to 7000, Congress delegated new responsibilities in food and drug regulation to the agency. Staffers were either being let go to cut costs of the agency or leaving…

Population health management is the desire to keep the patient population as healthy as possible, minimizing the need for expensive emergency visits, hospitalizations, and procedures. Any serious attempt to improve the health of a population must address health care disparities and inherent patient characteristics related to preventable morbidity and premature mortality in this country. The lack of emphasis on the social determinants of health they relate to population health management is a…

A career in public health will not only allow me to express my opinion about the issues I strongly believe in, such as vaccinations, it will also provide me with insight into the various health issues that are often neglected. Moreover, when studying in India, I was…

topics of how a new healthcare plan should be developed and funded in America. Healthcare is a right that should be advanced upon in America. A universal healthcare system should guarantee that everyone can receive their healthcare regardless of any pre-existing conditions. With this important factor, more patients could receive yearly checkups to maintain good health and detect problems beforehand. Most new proposals for free universal healthcare are based on government management,…

Internal Relations is public relations that companies uses to communicate with their employees. The primary role of internal relations that the book, Effective Public Relations describes it as to be able to effectively communicate within an organization. Some key-words that are used to describe different methods of Internal Relations is asymmetrical worldview and symmetrical worldview. Asymmetrical worldview is an applied system that some organizations used, such as the military, where the goal…

“To maintain, restore or improve health”, this is the goal of the German health care system.1 In order to strive to provide this care, Germany has a universal, multiple payer health care system which is divided into two major types of insurance: Statuary Health Insurance (SHI) and Private Health Insurance (PHI). The SHI is publically financed by independent, not for profit, non-government affiliated organizations. In addition, health insurance is compulsory for all legal residents in Germany.…

Some would even say it was the most successful in its field , but unlike other corporations, it had a foul secret. All the grand success that HealthSouth was known for was a lie, a mask to hide what was going on behind the scene, hidden from the public eye. A secret so well hidden, that it went unnoticed for years. A secret so large it broke not only the law but several accounting principles. It was the rise and fall of the largest and most victorious corporation in the Health Care Corporate…

the roles nurses may take on as they advance their education is that of the public health nurse (PHN) whom works at the county or state level striving towards infection management and prevention. The American Public Health Association, Public Health Nursing Section (APHA/PHNS) defines public health nursing as “the practice of promoting and protecting the health of populations using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences” (2013). This role widens the scope of nursing to…

such as; schools, public or community, and worksite settings. In the school setting it primarily involves school-aged children health or health relative behaviors. Some topics discussed in the school setting are hygiene, sex health and education, and maintaining a healthy diet. The purpose of health education and promotion in the school…