Public health law

my nursing career I will be required and or encouraged to educate the public about vaccinations. “To ensure a reduction of the incidence in pertussis is to promote universal vaccination” (Rittle, 2010). If we as health care providers do not educate our clients appropriately. Then any intervention that we may do to help improve their health will be almost useless. This is because our interventions are to help improve their health but if we don’t also educate the client. They may not know what it…

smiling as they are leaving school and the third is of two mothers with their smiling babies. There is text to the right of the pictures of two sentences based on the findings of the CDC. There are also different links throughout the page that the public can click on leading to other reputable sources supporting vaccination. Vaccines prevent many harmful and sometimes deadly diseases. According to the CDC, the United States has the safest, most effective vaccine supply in history. Safety…

Pneumonia in Children Pneumonia is a serious life threatening illness in children. It is a form of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) that affects the lungs that are made up of small sacs called ‘Alveoli’. Hen hey get infected, these alveoli fill with pus and fluids. This makes it difficult for the baby to breathe and limits the oxygen intake. The Scary Statistics: • Pneumonia is the world’s leading killer of children under the age of five. • Each year, pneumonia takes the life of 1.4 million…

Review of the Theories Individual health behavior theories focus on the thought processes individuals go through before taking health-related actions. Such theories, like the Health Belief Model (HBM) and Transtheoretical Model (TTM), can be used to explain breast cancer screening behavior. The HBM theory is centered on what motivates people to seek a health behavior. While the HBM is a “point in time” theory that focuses on changes in human behavior as a single process, the TTM theory…

Kyosha Valley is taking a proactive approach to addressing the issue of pandemics head on so that we can ensure a sustainable healthcare response at all Kyosha Valley practices. I have enacted guidelines for the pandemic preparedness policies, which will be effective immediately. Pandemics affect a large group of people under a very large radius. Many of the epidemics that countries experience come by due to inadequacy in knowledge about the disease in question. Such a disease spreads faster…

In Australia, parental refusal of vaccines is a spreading a concern for the increased incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases in children. Vaccines play a significant role in protecting vaccine-preventable diseases in children, so it is crucial that healthcare practitioners understand the reasons that parents are hesitant to vaccinate their children (McKee & Bohannon, 2016). Contextual influences, individual and group influences, and vaccine-specific influences are groups of concerns that…

The American Public Health Association(APHA) is responsible for the health and wellbeing of our country. As a prime source for “[protecting]...the health of people and communities where they live, learn work, and play” (APHA), we must trust them with the matter of the illegal drug abuse. The APHA promotes “healthy decisions” and should be able to aid victims, whom are unable to exist or grow for themselves. While each drug result in different side effects and hazards, how would we know or…

the field of global health, a consensus has been reached that we can no longer analyze public health issues through a purely biomedical lens, but must incorporate a wide range of other dimensions, such as political, economic, social, and environmental aspects. All these dimensions converge together to form particular places of health that influence disease exposure and transmission. King asserts that a political ecology framework applied to health provides insight into “how health is situated…

between the diseases and infections and what occurs as a result of the overlap. It is explained how additional infections can severely worsen the effects of HIV and increase the chance of mother- to –child transmission. The authors emphasize that public health interventions…

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…