Community Health Assessment Alex Goenaga Lehman College Assessment of a community for health care purposes revolves around the goal of treating the community as a client and improving its overall heath. This involves knowing the customs of the community‚ identifying their needs‚ and the usage of their current resources and optimally applying them. Beyond these measures nursing intervention can also include advocating for the community through legislative procedures
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Why Is Child Obesity an Important Health Problem in America? Webster University Unknown Student Techniques of substance Abuse Counseling Dr. Barbara Omer July 28‚ 2002 Abstract Obesity is a chronic state of being overweight. It ’s a life threatening condition and current research has shown that obesity is the leading cause for the increased health threats that persons of the developed world face. Obesity increases a person ’s threat for contracting diabetes‚ strokes‚ heart problems‚ certain
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CHALLENGES OF PUBLIC HEALTH CORE FUNCTIONS AND PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA BY DR. OLAWEPO‚ OLATAYO‚ A. PH. 10‚273 DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE FACULTY OF MEDICINE AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY‚ ZARIA MAY 2012 INTRODUCTION C.E.A Winslow‚ one of the leading figures in the history of public health‚ in 1920‚ defined public health as “the science and art of preventing disease‚ prolonging life and promoting health and efficiency through organized
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What is public health? What makes a good public health practitioner? Word count: 658 The health of an individual is highly determined by the health of the population in defined settings. Therefore‚ we should widen our vision to go beyond the individual level and incorporate the health of the population i.e. public health. Public health is more about collective actions and implies the science and the art of enabling‚ and organizing the community so as to prevent disease‚ prolong life and promote
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Alcohol consumption poses a threat for many public health harms. Impaired driving is one of the largest contributors to motor vehicle crashes (Burris‚ Grunwald‚ Anderson‚ &ump; Filippoli‚ 2011). In the United States each year roughly 13‚400 people die and an additional 255‚500 are injured in motor vehicle crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver according to Burris et al.‚ 2011. In 2006‚ these crashes accounted for almost a third of all U.S. traffic-related deaths (Burris et al.‚ 2011). Alcohol
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Pluralistic ignorance is of greatest influence when the motivation of an individual’s behavior is fear of social disapproval (Berkowitz‚ 2003). This is most especially true for males who face acceptance by peers through a masculine image. Often times this type of acceptance comes at the cost of one suppressing behavior that may be viewed as incongruent to the masculine image despite the fact that the individual does not genuinely agree with the norm. Ultimately‚ this becomes false consensus or unintentional
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Determinants of Health: Determinants of Health Dr.N.Bayapa Reddy MD Asst.Professor Dept.of Community Medicine Chennai Medical College Hospital & Research Centre Spectrum of Health : Spectrum of Health POSITIVE HEALTH BETTER HEALTH FREEDOM FROM SICKNESS UNRECOGNISED SICKNESS MILD SICKNESS SEVERE SICKNESS DEATH Determinants of Health : Determinants of Health Biological Behavioural and Socio-cultural Environmental Socio-economic Health services Aging of Population Gender Other factors
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Ecology and economy are two different studies that have merged together in recent years. This is because human lifestyle is having an increasingly negative impact on the surrounding environment. There has been a shift in recent years from technologies that are wasteful of resources toward technologies that use resources more efficiently and reduce pollution‚ a shift from conventional economy to sustainable economy. We are living beings on a planet Earth. Humans are living beings who depends on
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Population ecology is the branch of ecology that studies the structure and dynamics of populations. In population ecology a population is a group of individuals of the same species inhabiting the same area. In contrast to genetics‚ where the population is a group of interbreeding individuals of the same species‚ which is isolated from other groups and in human demography‚ the population is the set of humans in a given area. Population density is a common biological measurement and is often used
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The day I become the Right Honorable Prime Minister‚ I will make a difference. In putting Bahamians first I must put their health first; the first thing I plan to do is to place proper healthcare facilities on every Island of the Bahamas‚ as there is no doubt that the wealth of a nation is decided by the health of a nation. I will allocate the largest amount of dollars to health care in my very first budget. Out of all of the developed Islands of The Bahamas‚ only two Islands (Grand Bahama and New
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