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Huang, Van Busum, Khodyakov & Shier, 2013). Health care costs in the United States are incredible and is on the rise as more Americans rely on health care. By incorporating healthy lifestyles, many of the most prevalent chronic conditions and illness could be mitigated altogether, thus reducing health care costs. Furthermore, according to Noelcke (n.d.), healthy employees tend to be happier and more productive. As employers begin to reassess their health plans, it is important that they consider…

citizens in the world. This, in tandem with all the other extenuating health problems that occur with obesity, which themselves can incur more trips to the physician, increaseing the uses—and costs—of healthcare, prompt a great deal of outcry against the US healthcare system to treat obesity as a public emergency. However: should it be treated as such? Should something like a person’s eating habits be targeted as a public health problem—i.e. something everyone has to take on, and not just the…

infected. Australia is the only developed country where trachoma remains endemic, with the Indigenous communities suffering the heaviest burden of disease. As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) GET2020 Alliance, the Australian government has invested large sums of money in the combat of thracoma as a public health concern. By adopting the SAFE (surgery, antibiotics, facial cleaning and environmental improvement) strategy recommended by the WHO, Australia adjusted the recommendations to…

Individual Liability Contrary to popular belief, poor access to health care is not the central problem to the health of an individual in poverty; rather, health is associated with certain social determinants of health, specifically individual risk factors. In the book Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America by Laurie Kaye Abraham, the concept of how an individual’s decisions can drastically impact their health is clearly expressed through the lens of Tommy, an…

Renown Health (RH) is the Northern Nevada 's largest healthcare network. They are a not-for-profit locally governed network with over 5,000 employees. Offering multiple hospitals, urgent care centers, imaging and x-ray services, and dozens of other medical specialties, Renown Health is the most comprehensive community based healthcare network available to northern Nevada. As such, the primary value premise for this company is to make a genuine difference in the health and well-being of the…

(the lowest population density worldwide), the island continent Australia is quite a unique country (Australian Government, n.d.). Even though it counts as an industrial and well developed western country, it encounters many challenges in providing health care for 2.3% of the population due to it´s geography. These little over 500.000 people have settled in Australia’s rural areas, hundreds of kilometers away from the well developed metropolitan areas (Baxter, Hayes, & Gray, 2011). Looking…

Health literacy is a complex topic difficult to address Health literacy was defined by the class lecture as “the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health care decisions (Healthy People, 2010). The features of health literacy include a wide range of skills and proficiencies that people develop throughout their lifetime. The title itself, Health literacy is composed of the noun literacy…

The above-mentioned health determinants often result in health inequalities, these are unfair gaps in health due to socioeconomic inequalities, lifestyle behaviours, education and access to health services (PHE 2016b). A genetic factor is also accountable for weight gain, over 200 genes identified as playing a part in the regulation of body weight (Braun and Anderson 2011). Additionally, obesity and depression are co-related making an obese person 55% risk of developing depression over time,…

Health is the primary concern of all employers in any organization. The productivity of the employees is dependent on the state of their health at the workplace and their general health which includes physical, psychological and mental health. This literature review focuses on the strategies that employers can implement to improve health and wellness programs in their organizations so as to reduce the chances of their employees contracting chronic diseases. Owing to what has already been…

Fifth, improving public health and disease prevention. A fundamental component of ongoing healthcare reform efforts must center on creating a system that improves health and promotes healthy behaviors, beyond just diagnosing and treating disease. Chronic disease affects health and quality of life, but it is also a major driver of health care costs and has a related impact on businesses. It is estimated that nearly half of all American suffer from at least one of the top chronic diseases,…