Population

Care of Correctional Population Correctional environments offer a unique health care environment different from typical community healthcare settings. This is largely due to the assortment of individual making up the population which varies in age, gender, and other health issues. It is important to promote health care services within correctional facilities to promote human rights. Although conditions inside of correctional facilities are not ideal preventive services are put in place such as…

Impact Vulnerable Populations Southern Florida has a large migrant farm worker population that could be negatively impacted by food shortages and thus labor shortages across the state and county. These individuals rely on the income made through harvesting in order to provide for their families and are often the most marginalized in society. Low income residents will also be impacted if aerial spraying continues in the region. Food shortages are likely to hit the entire population and those at…

Diseases affect both human and animal populations. The epidemic is worse in a wildlife case scenario. This is because the animals are scattered in the wild. It is hard to account for the infected animals. Furthermore, it is even harder to avail treatment to the infected animals. Wildlife is very important to our ecosystem. Besides, they are a tourist attraction. Therefore, wildlife must be protected from extinction. Australia continent is very famous for koalas. Koalas are very…

As the elderly population keeps growing there is no doubt that they will face financial, health and social issues. One issue that many elderly people are facing is the high cost of medications. Generally speaking, medications are expensive. However, the high cost of medications tends to have an effect to the elderly population more because as one gets older they are more exposed to experience a chronic illness and are more likely to consume multiple medications a day (Cavanaugh &…

Remote and Regional Populations Synopsis • Populations in regional and remote areas have less access to medical care as opposed to those living in urban areas. • Availability of specialist STI services is less likely for regional and remote areas and waiting times for appointments with GPs may be considerable. • Persons in regional and remote areas may be reluctant to identify as Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) and LGBTI communities may be less evident in these areas. •…

primary care to underserved populations, such as improving health literacy through health education programs. The health education programs will help improve health literacy by providing underserved populations with information on chronic diseases, maintenance of health and wellness, and access to care and services. The programs will help reduce health risk behaviors, such as poor nutrition, lack of physical exercise, and factors that increase stress. The underserved populations will learn about…

Of the total population of Quebec, nearly half are descendants of the 10,000 original French settlers. Québécois constitute more than four-fifths of Canada’s total Francophone population. About one-tenth of Quebecers are Anglophones of British descent. Another tenth of the population is of neither French nor British descent and includes aboriginal peoples (Indian [First Nations] and Inuit), eastern Europeans, Portuguese, Greeks, Haitians, and Asians (notably from Southeast Asia). In 1974 French…

Population around the world has been rising. Even in some countries where the number of newborn baby are declining, due to the growth of life expectancy, their population also do not stop climbing. This case usually happens in developed countries, and UK is one of those countries. According to Office for National Statistic, UK population has been increased gradually (ONS, 2014), and it also reported that the generation born in the two decades of the baby boom after the World War Two is now…

over the age of 65 ("ExploreHealthCareers.org"). Therefore, due to this projected increase in the number of older Americans, in the next 15 years an estimate of approximately 30,000 geriatricians will be in need to accommodate the older population (“With aging population”). To meet…

the chart shown above, Canada has a low birth rate of 10 per 1000 people and a low death rate of 8 per 1000 people in the year of 2014. Even after 25 years, the countries population rates stay fairly low, which will maintain the stable population. A birth rate and death rate being low will automatically result in a stable population and natural increase just like Canada has.…