Socialized medicine

I remember the first time I found out about occupational therapy, I had just began working in a pediatric facility for speech and language and occupational therapy. In the beginning it was difficult to understand these two professions. However, once I learned and gained experience on both these therapies, I was fascinated of what occupational therapy consisted of. I was able to observer the Occupational Therapist at my job, she was able to explain in certain details about the phase of the…

Mental Health policies within Public Health are more prominent today than they were ten years ago, however, there are still a lot of gaps when it comes to children with mental illnesses. “It is estimated that one of every five children and adolescents in the United States has a mental disorder” (Kataoka, 2002). All across the United States, different states have different policies regarding access and availability to mental health professionals. Many states have policies requiring children to…

There are many ways of getting sick such as airborne, touching someone. For a long time this is how people have gotten a cold or chicken pox. As medicine is readily available to aid in the recovery of an illness. Viruses can become resistant to medicine just as our bodies could resist to some sicknesses. In the book Biological Terrorism by Steve Goodwin and Randall W. Phillis they present a history of microorganism used to help cure diseases and misused by Medics, and biological warfare. To…

Assisted suicide occurs when doctors help a person transition to death with as little pain as possible. Opponents of assisted suicide argue that it is unethical and doctors should heal the patients rather than end their lives. (“Physician- Assisted Suicide”). However supporters claim that assisted suicide is about the patients and what they want to do. Although assisted suicide may be against some doctor’s ethics, I believe if the patients with terminal illnesses wat to die, then they should…

Community Settings for Family Health Nurses A family health nurse can provide care in a variety of settings such as, home visits, community nursing centers, and public health departments and also be an educator in the home and community. In this paper, I will discuss these facilities in my community, access to these resources, how families in the community benefit, and three ways a family health nurse may be useful in community resources. There are a variety of settings where a family…

Health Care Finance Health care industry is a growing business not just in America but also around globe. Behind any business, finance play a crucial in building, driving and maintaining the business regardless of the type of business is. Ultimately health care is a business, which definitely requires financial management in order to run the business. Since finance is an important aspect of health care business, it becomes extremely important for the Health care professional to have…

Lesson 8 – Problem Pitch Bibliography “Research We’re Watching.” Harvard Women’s Health Watch 22.9 (2015):8. Health Source – Consumer Edition. Web. 11 June 2015. The main point of this article is to inform the reader about research being watched by Harvard Health Publication regarding the benefits to an individual’s health from eating peanuts on a regular basis, why women fall and the symptoms of a heart attack in a female. I was interested in the symptoms of a heart attack for a woman as the…

Literature Review Qualitative research characteristically depends on four primary methods of congregating the information for study: 1) underwriting about the situation, 2) witnessing problem directly, 3) interviewing in depth, and 4) analyzing different research papers and substantial culture, with varying emphases (Marshall and Rossman, 2016, p. 141). The reviewing technique must be a revealing, rather than collecting, concentrating, in contrast to the meta-analysis of quantitative studies…

Information Systems in the Healthcare Industry The Healthcare Industry has many dynamic movements and innovations. As stated by Kathleen M. Young, “every action taken depends on previous information and knowledge” (Young, p. 11). If the industry missed even one piece of information it would put many lives on the line. Information systems (IS) have become critical to help healthcare professionals better serve patients by accessing, saving, and analyzing data. The data could be anything from…

It’s Time to “Pop the Bubble”: The Implications of International Programmes Supporting Public Health Growth and Development Introduction Let’s face it— Canadians are some of the healthiest people in the world. With programmes covering both health protection at the clinical level, and health promotion at the policy level (e.g. The Public Health Agency of Canada), Canada easily has a population that can call themselves healthy relative to much of the rest of the world. To test this, let’s…