Prevalence

growing prevalence of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder—ADHD—in younger and younger demographics. This epidemic has preyed on the children of the nation, grasping hold of millions of adolescents easily distracted by smart phones and…

in it. Not everybody gets access to health care, a home, a bed, food everyday, or even clothes. Poverty affects everyone and anyone. This is a big struggle all over the world and the rates are constantly increasing. In the articles, “The Rising Prevalence of Severe Poverty in America: A Growing Threat to Public Health,” by Steven H.Woolf, Robert E. Johnson and Jack Geiger, and the article “Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor: Who gains, Who loses, and Why?” by Anirudh Krishna, authors discuss the…

role in perpetuating women’s fear of victimization. There are devastatingly high numbers of depictions of violence against women in virtually all forms of mass media, especially in the news and in the entertainment industry. This can stress the prevalence of violence…

Over the past century, the conditions of human disease have changed a lot from acute diseases to chronic diseases in most of developed countries, so we cannot look at it and treat it in the same ways as before anymore. Biomedical model, therefore, should be adjusted with or replaced by the wide-ranged social models that are more suitable and more effective for resolving modern health issues, because it is narrow and one-sided. Biomedical model is mainly focus on biomedical changes in human…

senior management. Only 1.1 percent of female across Asia hold a powerful position in corporations such as Chief Executive Officer. In Hong Kong over forty percent of companies have no female on the board of directors. Given the gender discrimination prevalence in Asian countries, female employees stand a less chance of securing a job where there are male competitors. In this regard, many female professionals choose not to work. In line with Intersectionality concept, the problem of gender…

reported, and instead covering it up to preserve a positive image of the military in the eye of the public, which emboldens offenders of sexual assault to act, and victimize others in the military. In order to accurately pinpoint the reasons for the prevalence of sexual assault on military women, while they are active members, feminist theory will be used. According to feminist theory there is gender inequality, and this inequality leads to discrimination, sexual objectivity, and patriarchy…

of 5 hours per visit. Most of them have multiple morbidities. More than sixty percent of the population is diabetic and sixteen percent of the remaining population has peripheral vascular disease. According to the literature the prevalence of peripheral vascular disease (PVD) is greater in this population (Crozier, 2014). It was evident there was a lack of education about foot care among this veteran population and the need to create a program to educate and screen for…

Health promotion is a course of action to help people change their habits to attain excellent health (Fair, p.2). For physical therapists, it should come as second nature to promote and become advocates of health and wellness. In the US, the pervasiveness of obesity will rise from “32% in 2008 to 50% in 2030” (Kraschnewski, Hwang, George, Lehman, & Sciamanna, 2014). Taking this information into account, we as physical therapists, should be involved in creating a health promotion initiative that…

However, other infectious diseases, such as respiratory tract infections, diarrhoea, ear infections and scabies, remains high (Kearns et al. 2013). In particular, the prevalence of giardia positive was up to 66.7% in remote Indigenous community due to contaminated water and poor living environment (Asher et al. 2014). Sexually transmitted diseases, such as chlamydia and gonorrhoea, are the highest in Indigenous women aged…

The first construct that I will need a measure for is the amount of fear of sexual assault that women in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps experience/feel. The survey measure for this construct should focus primarily on quantifying the amount of fear women feel. This likely takes form in how often a woman thinks about the fear of sexual assault or how often she changes her behaviors to avoid fear of being assaulted. In this measure, I would also like to include some questions…