life comprised of wellness, happiness, and enriched with quality. In order for these desires to maintain a level of trueness an individual’s health must be maintained. In a perfect world, these ideals could be easily met without any barriers or complications however, we live in reality. Within this world, particularly in the United States, access to health care is a barrier for some individuals. This issue impacts millions of American citizens on a daily basis and becomes their normal. In…
also specializes in,”...a complete range of care back by the depth of expertise of heart, neurology, orthopedics, and surgery services ("Emergency Services," n.d., p. 1). MGMC also holds several substantial awards. It carries the No. 1 Healing Hospital in the Nation, the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence in 2013, and…
Healthcare in the United States has become a topic of remarkable controversy in recent decades. As medical science, technology and industry have advanced, so too has the discussion of how healthcare in America should be operated and provided to citizens, as well as how things like insurance and government assistance should be regulated and administered. While most people agree that healthcare reform should be a bipartisan effort to make medical services better and more easily available for…
(WHO) Health Report in 2000, as the responsibility of governments to navigate their health systems in adherence with WHO’s measure of good public health (WHO, 2000; Barbazza & Tello, 2014; Saltman & Duran, 2016). The assertion is that good governance is fundamental to ultimately bettering health outcomes (Barbazza & Tello, 2014). Strengthening governance in healthcare is complex, since it requires stabilizing the logic and interests of many sectors, while improving access, quality, and health…
In the past health care was more of a systematic process that was rigid and tightly monitored leaving very little room for error because everything was done by hand, double and sometimes tripled check before a process begun. At that time, most deaths resulted from unformulated systems that were still being invented on how to save a life or to cure a disease. The way physician handled patient care uncertainties was with an open culture by being transparent to the patient’s their families. The…
what health informatics was. I was in the process of a major change when my advisor told me about it. I knew I wanted an interactive job, but I also knew that I wanted to be in the health field. I just wasn’t sure what it was I wanted to do in the field of health. I thought about being a surgeon, a dentist, a nurse, a perfusionist, an anesthesiologist, the list goes on. I did a lot of thinking about these careers and realized that I didn’t want to do any of them and so I looked into health…
and sexual health stigma on physical and mental health outcomes of rural LGBTQ people. My small town upbringing and the isolation I experienced while coming to terms with my queer identity attracted me to this research question. What is the secret to resiliency? Meyer (2003) builds off prior to sociological research to posit that social support and openness with one’s sexual identity correspond with increased resiliency which lessens the impact of sexuality-based stigma on mental health outcomes…
using herbs. These questions ignited my interest to understand how humans benefitted from health care and subsequently provided my path to being admitted into Ambrose Alli University , Ekpoma in Nigeria to study Medicine & Surgery. While interacting and clerking patients during my clinical postings made me understand that most people become sick because they have rudimentary understanding of basic health care and restricted access to the best medical facilities…
The public health workforce is a vital part of the public health system ("Recruitment and Retention", 2017). Protection of the public’s health depends on maintaining a sufficient number of workers capable of delivering essential public health services ("Recruitment and Retention", 2017). The recruitment of qualified and capable individuals into the field of public health and the retention of these individuals within the public health workforce are two important elements public health…
of privacy when taking care of critically ill patients. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was passed by Congress in 1996 to define the rules and regulations concerning multiple topics, one of which is called the Privacy Rule (Mcgowan pg. 61). This rule established national standards to protect patients’ personal health information and medical records. Since that time there has been advancements in technology and now there are things like electronic health records,…