Public health law

patient has presented to the clinic today. The patient reports that she is homeless, a type II diabetic, HIV positive, and currently pregnant with a gestational age of 25 weeks. The patient also reports that she was previously seen at a community health clinic that has since closed due to monetary factors. At this point during the initial prenatal visit, the provider should perform a risk assessment on this patient. Prior to conducting the risk assessment, the provider should ensure that the…

An epidemiologist is a “health professional who investigates patterns and causes of disease and injury in humans” (“Summary”). To accomplish my dream of attending the University of Notre Dame to get a master’s degree in epidemiology, I have to research the education or training requirements, consider the salary and benefits offered, and make plans for achieving my career and personal goals. Epidemiologists can work all across the United States or in other world wide health facilities. Most work…

some of these words. Yet, what is unexpected is they are all code words used by teens for prescription drugs per the National Institute on Drug Abuse for Teens (2016). Prescription drug abuse among teens has rapidly increased, and has become a public health concern. Teens who are abusing prescription drugs are at higher risk for other abusive problems (Milner, Ham, & Zamboanga, 2014.) With many other issues going on in today’s world, there is need to provide help and education to decrease the…

banning advertising of tobacco products. The World Health Organization projected 10 million deaths from tobacco smoking by 2030. Tobacco companies fully intended targeting teens and young people to replenish the older people dying of smoking-related illnesses. They did this by making smoking look fun, having cartoon characters…

I met with Joy Ahern, the Health Promotions Supervisor at the Metropolitan Council. Joy’s responsibilities, on top of managing individuals in the Health and Wellness group within Human Resources, are to collect health related data, presentations on health topics and pre-planning health and wellness promotions with Council wide facilities. Growing up Joy lived a life many would only dream about. When she was 16 she lived in South America and Uruguay. At the age of 19, Joy lived in England…

beginning of the 21st century, infectious diseases have become relatively less of a concern, while chronic diseases continue to grow rapidly throughout the world’s population (Buttar 229). Because of this, it is said that it is “obvious that a population health approach – ‘prevention is better than cure’ – would be the most appropriate model to adopt to deal with this” (Buttar 229), because according to Harpal Buttar, prevention of illness would lead to reduced costs of many factors including…

Whenever working in rehabilitation the recovery process tends to be a central aspect (Allen et al., 2013). Occasionally the disability might be a psychiatric and/or physical disability however the process is practically the same (Allen et al., 2013). Whenever an individual is conducting a recovery process, they must first create a prevention model. The prevention model is divided into three stages of primary, secondary and tertiary (Allen et al., 2013). In the primary prevention the matter for…

In order to obtain optimal functional health for an individual it is essential to evaluate their health requirements from many different vantage points. By interplaying the underlying philosophies of the micro focused Biomedical, and macro focused Social Models of health, both pathogenic (Biomedical), and salutogenic (Social model) factors can be taken into consideration in forming a comprehensive overall picture of the social, environmental, physical, and psychological determinants that could…

In order to make a plan to help reduce childhood obesity in Hispanic families, there needs to be utilization of all three levels of prevention and the web of causation. This public health nurse will develop a plan to bring awareness to families and children of Hispanic ethnicity in regards to childhood…

Most of the time people refuse treatment to self or to their love one is due to a knowledge deficit. Another cause that make people to refuse the treatment is a myth from that subject. Both the knowledge deficit and the myth require a good patient education. “Vaccine refusal is increasingly common in pediatric practices, with 89% of pediatricians reporting at least 1 parental refusal per month and 10% reporting greater than a 10% refusal rate” (Bass, 2015, p. 21). First, I would educate the…