Regional Health Information Organization

Public Health and Community Health are intertwined, often public health is included in the community, which includes health education and the promotion of health (Cottrell, Girvan, McKenzie, & Seabert, 2015). According to the World Health Organization, Public/Community Health Education/Promotion is a method used to empower, modify, and improve one’s behavior “towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions” which prevents disease, and promotes health, among the population as a…

Over the years, The United States has faced many crimes that can cause an individual to suffer long lasting effects. Individuals all over the country have become victims to all types of crimes; however, there is one crime where victims can be victimized on a daily basis leaving them feeling helpless. In addition, like many other crimes, victim’s ranges from all ages, sex, gender and foreign nationals. It is a widespread exploitation of humans which to this date continue to occur unseen in…

Global health care is a crisis that continues to affect lives of many people of all ages. Americans are very fortunate to have well-developed health care provision. However, some developing countries, like countries in Africa, are not so fortunate. They do not have access to health centers, good nutrition, and for some, any shelter. Imagine a life without heath care. Many people will suffer with no cure to diseases and no preventative medications, as well as immunizations. Not only is the lack…

Introduction The Holistic Model defines health as a state of complete physical, social, spiritual and mental hauroa (Davies, 2013). Health Promotion is one of the five-core functions of public health in New Zealand (Davies, 2013). The process of health promotion is to facilitate people, to increase control over, and to improve their overall health and wellbeing (Green & Raeburn, 1998). Health promotion does not focus merely on the individual but moves beyond to focus on a range of…

determinants of health that plague American society. This series moves through multiple determinants such as the social gradient, race, social exclusion, as well as many others to impress upon its viewers that our health is intimately associated with the environment (Alderman & Strain, 2008). Furthermore these episodes beg the questions, “What else needs to be done?” and “How has my social and physical environments affected my own health?”. This reflection will analyze my own health and…

violence. (CDC Report 2012) Even the World Health Organization recently declared “Violence against women: as global health problem of epidemic proportions”, in its June 2013 reporting data shows that violence against women is extremely common. Further stating: “These findings send a powerful message that violence against women is a global health problem of epidemic proportions,” said Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General, WHO. “We also see that the world’s health systems can and must do more…

on all tobacco advertising in India. Indian officials, like many other governments around the world that imposed similar bans, felt an ethical and social responsibility to discourage usage of a product that is very dangerous and posed significant health risks to the population. However, such a ban could have significant economic impacts, considering revenue collected from taxes on the sale of these products, as well as potential impacts to jobs in the tobacco industry if sales decreased as a…

Introduction Global health is essential since it is the aim to formulate effective responses to the state of health in developing and developed countries (Khan, Derman, & Testa, 2014). Therefore, global health should consist of foreign aid that is directed to building structures and systems, which is more effective than providing money (Khan et al., 2014). Overall, there are four main reasons global health should be a main focus, which are the world requires it, majority of global health is…

with the development process through giving aid. If a country does not have strong institutions that will use the aid to be productive in economically improving the living standards of the country, with seems to one of the main problems in global health problems. Thus, by just offering aid to a country that has no systems to prolong its benefit, our aid does nothing to help development. I also believe that development has to be primarily the countries’ business with support for international…

Health Issue To start off, the definition of a refugee according to the World Health Organization is, “A refugee is someone who fears being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. A refugee is outside the country of his or her nationality, and is unable to, or unwilling to be protected by that country.” That being said, the issue of interest was the Syrian refugee crisis because of how recent it is and how much this…