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229), according to Ramaswamy and Freudenberg (2007) in chapter 13 of the book Public Health Behind Bars: From Prisons to Communities. The information that is presented in this book is reputable because the authors support their book by looking at sources that are reliable and evidence-based. The authors of this chapter, Megha Ramaswamy, a Master of Public Health, and Dr. Nicholas Freudenberg, a professor of Urban Health, discuss the various health promotion methods…

It is five in the morning, and John parents are once again, moving around the house organizing the items around the house. Once again, it is time to move again. At the age of six, it was john’s third move, the third different state he would reluctantly have to grow up in. Moreover, this was the fifth friend that I would not be able to play flag football with, due to another military move due to my friend’s mom or dad receiving order to transfer to another state. As we pretended to stay asleep we…

youth gangs and alcohol related street based violence. It is agreed among criminologists that the best response to youth deviance is to divert them away from the criminal justice system. Most of the debate surrounding social disorder involves public space. A limitation is that most solutions put forward by, including environmental crime prevention experts increase rather than decrease social exclusion. The best prevention in the crime prevention involves rather than exclude youth and…

Rural areas face many distinct public health issues and challenges. These issues are typically unique to these areas due to their location, inhabitants, and common community norms. Most rural areas may be associated with areas that are located in areas where farming is the most common form of living; which also is associated with “wide-open spaces” (Warren & Smalley, 2014, p. 6). This may also lead to the assumption that health and public health are limited due to the strong and independent…

community and that it brings the community for unified and stringer at the same time. Then, the public was given the chance to ask any questions or concerns about the community; furthermore, there was no public commentary. The room wasn’t packed as much since it was a week during Thanksgiving that the meeting was being held. For the most part the public were pleased with the issues being talked about. The public was respecting the mayor and the trustees at the meeting. There was no interruption…

of Public Health program in Epidemiology at Georgia Southern University Jiann‑Ping Hsu College of Public Health. Aldous Huxley says “Experience is not what happens to a man: it is what a man does with what happens to him”. Being a victim of typhoid fever outbreak while I was a senior in high school in Nigeria, West Africa; the death of my favorite uncle from the co-infection of HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, tailored my career towards communicable diseases and public health. The failures of public…

placed along a continuum, varying from a traditional view that values a reductionist, patriarchal approach, to a more modern approach that values holism and health as a resource for living. The Healthy Towns Program is a program implemented by the Public Health Network across the Central Queensland, Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast locale. The following is a critical reflection of the health promotion values and principles when applied to the Healthy Towns Program, including examples of six of the…

Jeffrey Sachs spends a great deal of the book explaining the causes of the great recession. He discusses government policy decisions and relationships with outside interests which he feels started in the 1970s and when exacerbated by the rise of Reagan in the 1980s and continued by Clinton in the 1990s, all these events lead to the current situation we are in. Sachs tin chapter 12 makes his argument for correcting the ills of our government system. He calls this chapter “The Seven Habits of an…

Without knowing how to communicate properly through social media, someone may accidentally 'let internal and privileged information suddenly go public virally ' (Deiser & Newton 2013) instead of sending it privately. This could cause a lot of problems for businesses as their competitors might see the information and use it to their advantage and the leaked information could cost the business a lot…

Children’s Health Multiple studies have established that in the United States a discrepancy exists between healthcare services provided to children of minorities and the rest of the population. The problem is so evident that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality was directed by congress to report on disparities annually beginning in 2003 (AHRQ, 2014). The unequal distribution of healthcare to disadvantaged families has a direct measurable impact on children’s health. The causes of…