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Health promotion is how we ensure children live a healthy lifestyle. While in the setting we ensure children live a healthy lifestyle by healthy foods such as a balanced meal at snack times and a recommendation of what children should eat at home, regularly cleaned environment including the environment not having things such as mould. We can also promote a health by doing activities such as how to wash their hands, this prevents them from catching and passing germs. Children should be encouraged…

accessing health services are the issues drawing attention towards their health promotion and maintenance (Stephen, Porter, Nettleton & Willis, 2006). Aim: This report outlines the health services delivered by Danila Dilba health service in Northern Territory of Australia and their struggles towards reaching a dream that never died. All in all trying to promote and maintain the health of Aboriginal and Torres islander people. History and Background: Danila Dilba is an Indigenous Medical service…

gh Public Health Preparedness 11/6/15 Smallpox Basic Outline Introduction 1. The preparedness community has vastly changed since we first started working toward eradicating smallpox. They have made progressions in areas of communication plans, isolation and quarantine, environmental control, and checklist for different levels of government. 2. These developments and actions have helped toward the progression of eradicating other diseases. The smallpox health initiative action plan helped…

Pursuit of Happiness Unlike most of my colleagues, I have spent an extra year pursuing a DDS-MPH dual degree program to further my interest in the underserved population, a pursuit that has enhanced my understanding of the complex relationship between health, oral health, and the human condition. In an effort to better understand the social determinants of oral health, I have worked closely with some of the nation’s most vulnerable populations – minority older adults. Specifically, I worked on…

Minority Health Care Access AnchorThe United States Government claims our medical health care is the best in the world. The can be no further from the truth. We as a country are less advanced than other nations because citizens of certain races, ethnicities and incomes experience less coverage than others. African Americans and Latinos are among the worse. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented in 2014. It's goal is to expand health insurance coverage. Early evidence shows the uninsured…

Emergency Support Functions (ESF) are groups that are made up of government and private sector elements that provide support, services and resources to people in need following a domestic devastation. ESF’s are crucial after devastating emergencies in saving lives, assisting victims and communities, as well as protecting property and helping restore services and crucial infrastructure (PHE, 2015). There are fifteen ESF’s, which are annexed into the traditional function format of an emergency…

In Tom Vilsack’s article, Should Candy and Soda be Banned from Schools?, he argues that banning unhealthy snacks and drinks would be helpful in abolishing nation’s childhood obesity epidemic. Mr. Vilsack states, in America, the food children are eating in school is half the calories they should be consuming and that can lead to diabetes at a young age and can carry on with diseases when they get older, therefore i agree on banning candy and soda. Children as said, can get diabetes if they…

The Health Belief Model (HBM) was developed in 1950s by social psychologist in the U.S Public Health Services. This theory contains a great deal of components which predicts why people will not take action to prevent, detect, or control illness condition (Glanz et al., 2015). It’s important to be able to understand why people are not participating because one can be able to create more specific campaigns to motivate people to change their behavior. The underlying premise of the HBM is that…

Public health services are population focused. In other words, public health services are provided to improve and promote the health status of the population (1). To accomplish this mission, in the United States, public health systems are structured to balance three core public health functions, i.e., assessment, policy development and assurance (1). Policy development, as one of the core functions of public health, is a process by which agencies collaborate with community components, planing…

REACTION PAPER- Unnatural Causes The documentary series “Unnatural causes In sickness and In wealth” explores how socio-economic conditions affect population health and how certain communities come together and work together to improve and extend their health and life expectancy. Throughout the series the common denominator remains that the amount of wealth a person has influences their level of health, overall wellness and level of stress in their everyday life. The higher a person is on the…