Socialized medicine

Health is a popular topic discussed by people all over the world. Illness is “a specific condition that prevents people body or mind from working normally” (Illness, n.d.). As a result, most companies’ employers pay more attention on preventing employees from illness because illness will decrease employees’ productivities and efficiencies significantly. Preventable illness makes up approximately 80% of the burden of illnesses and 90% of all health care costs. Employers are beginning to realize…

As individuals age, it is likely that they will require some form of medication to treat the development of health conditions. Health conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes and high cholesterol, are more likely to occur. Most of these conditions require the administration of pharmacology. Geriatric patients are therefore more likely to be on medications, and often on multiple medications at once, a condition called polypharmacy. Age-related changes in the human body…

Please answer each of the following questions 250 words or less: 1. What three attributes of the Stony Brook PA program most influenced you to apply to our program and why? Many elements of the Stony Brook PA program influenced my decision to apply to this program. The stated mission of the Stony Brook PA program reflects my personal approach to health care. At Stony Brook, there is an emphasis an on a “comprehensive patient-centered medical care”, rather than simply relying on a one-size-fits…

Please explain how you envision fulfilling our Mission as a graduate of the Program. The mission of the Yale PA program “is to educate individuals to become outstanding clinicians and to foster leaders who will serve their communities and advance the physician assistant profession.” I have known that I wanted to work in the healthcare profession since I was little. The desire to help and heal people is a fundamental part of my nature. Throughout college, I volunteered at Roosevelt Hospital.…

choice. Through hard work and determination, I was able to attend one of the best colleges. Early on, I was inclined more towards subjects that dealt with broad knowledge and experience which carried special appeal. In the first year, for Community medicine the interaction…

The anti vaccination movement was born at the beginning of the twentieth century. The movement came about after several failed vaccinations resulting in serious injury and in some cases death have occurred. Most of these fatalities were children, which added to the anger in parents. The Supreme Court ruled on a landmark case Jacobsen vs. Massachusetts in 1905, this ruling mandated parents to vaccinate their children or incur a penalty. Government involvement in the lives of the people was…

The United States is the world’s leading country with diverse culture and ethnic groups, and is considered as a land of freedom and equal opportunity. In the other words, people expect to be treated just like everyone else and to have the ability to practice their basic human rights without any obstruction in this country. This concept refers to ‘social justice’. People from all over the world come to America holding on to the chance to live the American Dream, assuming that this equal…

Preventing non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease (CVD), is a public health priority that has currently dominated both global [1] and African regional health policy [2]. This as a result of the growing evidence that shows that stroke and ischaemic heart disease are responsible for 20% of premature mortality globally [3]. In addition, stroke is the highest cause of disability. In Africa, the reasons for the increase in CVD are varied. They include urbanization and…

Edward Wagner and his colleagues introduced the chronic care model to propose a more comprehensive model to improve the current health care system at the time; with the increase of chronic conditions exceeding acute and infectious diseases as the major causes of death in the US, and the overall costs these conditions have placed on the system. In a nutshell, “this model applies equally to the prevention as to the treatment of chronic disease, both of which require helping patients to change the…

that the target market of baby boomers to N-Gen prefer having easy access to needed health care instead of driving into the city. Complete Health Solutions plans to add additional physicians, new service lines in addition to providing telephonic medicine support. Over the next five years, Complete Health Solutions can increase its access, offer new services and increase panel…