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Community Settings for Family Health Nurses Family nurses work in a number of diverse settings, including schools, occupational sites, public health departments, physician offices, family homes, and community nursing centers. Even though the populations vary with each setting, the family nurse uses the same concepts and principles altering them to fit the needs of each family or group. In the community, the role of the family nurse is to educate, promote health, prevent disease, and influence…

Nick Zaiac is a Policy Analyst at Maryland’s Public Policy Institution. For those of you who do not know, a policy analyst is a person who observes the political world. So Zaiac is the person who is behind the scenes taking notes about the new laws that are being formed in the state of Maryland. For Zaiac’s recent piece for the Washington Post he wrote about the future of Uber and Lyft in Maryland. To begin, Zaiac starts off his piece very strong. Zaiac describes the regulation as innocuous,…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), helps public and private providers work on building a better way to deliver health care for Medicare Beneficiaries through accountability and public disclosure. The system helps deliver improved care, while helping to reduce health care spending. CMS aims to deliver consistent high-quality care, promote efficient outcomes in the health care system, and ensure that health insurance remains affordable for the millions of Americans seeking and…

not teach even one child to read, write, or express a thought on paper. Not one child will have a better understanding of math or science, and certainly will not raise the shameful, failing test scores in Wood County. Where is the accountability public schools have for their fiduciary responsibility in providing a quality education? The overwhelming emphasis has shifted to issues unaffiliated with actual teaching and…

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,…

Unquestionably mental health (MH) is a public health concern; however, as in all matters of health focus has shifted from the treatment of illness and disease to that of prevention. Subsequently, this theory also applies to MI in efforts to reduce not only its prevalence but also the anguish suffers endure. However, reducing the prevalence is complicated by the fact mental illness is both complex and far-reaching, whereby, a one-size-fits-all approach proves ineffective. For that reason,…

than three months. They receive Statutory Health Insurance (SHI). This insurance is granted to residents in a variety of ways; through employment, as a benefit to people who have lost their job, to students, as well as those who are retired. This public health care insurance is provided by the state as well as taxes. Employer and employee taxes cover about 64%, income taxes cover 16%, social security covers…

to move toward a state of optimal health’ Kreuter and Devore (1980) proposed a more complex definition in a paper commissioned by the U.S Public Health Service. They stated that health promotion is ‘the process of advocating health in order to enhance the probability that personal (individual, family, and community), private (personal, and business), and public (federal, state, and local government) support of positive health practices will become a societal norm’ (Kreuter & Devore, 1980, p.…

with other countries and even inside its own country that the healthcare is not on the list of their citizen’s privileges. The government should promote “the general welfare” as said in the Declaration of Independence. Free education, public law enforcement, public road maintenance is promoted for a just society, let’s make free health care another reason for a just society. The United States government has set aside the health of the people because its exclusive focus is set on the economy.…

Being originally from Washington, D.C., I spent my childhood riding the subway with my parents from the city to the suburbs. We would pick up our car at the local park-and-ride down the street from our home, and then repeat the same process the next day. During the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, because of the subway, my parents had quick and easy access to my daycare center. With the said, according to the Department of Transportation, statistical data revealed that from…