Name Mental health I had been having periods of anxiety for over eight months which were characterized by sleepless nights and difficulties in concentration. Before then‚ I had been taking care of my father after my mother became ill and passed away two years ago. She had looked after my father and me in a loving manner and always took good care of us. I am a single women aged 26 years. I recently resigned from work in order to be present with my father as I take care of him. The problem got worse
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The Florida Mental Health Act commonly known as “Baker Act.” This policy is found in the Florida Statute 394 and became effective on 1972. The Baker Act Law was name after Maxine Baker a former State representative from Miami whom sponsored the act. The law and treatment of mental illness in the state of Florida dates back to 1874 by government statutes. In 1971the Florida legislature enacted Florida Mental Health Act. This was a comprehensive revision of Florida’s mental health 97-year-old law.
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Strengths and Weakness of Health Care The United States spends more on healthcare than any other developed country‚ yet still ranks towards the bottom of the Bloomberg report for the efficiency of health care. Less than ideal health outcomes and much dissatisfaction brought by unequal access‚ the numbers of uninsured and underinsured Americans‚ uneven quality‚ and large healthcare waste are weaknesses that the United States strives to fix. As there is no single payor system and payment schedules
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NSB223 - Case Study This Case Study will be undertaken as a group activity and is designed to deepen your knowledge about mental illnesses‚ and to test your understanding about the nursing care of people suffering from such conditions. It will also assist you to express your ideas through class presentation and in writing. You as a small group of 3-4 students are asked to choose one of the following scenarios and answer the questions listed below. The manner in which you as a group choose to present
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A. Public Health Approach to Mental Health A Public Health Approach to Mental Health contains must focus on a specific group of people‚ stress promotion and prevention‚ and address the determinants of health. A Public Health Approach must also place an emphasis on “assessment‚ policy development‚ and assurance” (Miles et al.‚ 2010‚ p. 40). B. Description of Disorder Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent emotions of sadness and loss of interest‚ it is also called Major Depressive
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Strengths & Weakness This class has really opened my eyes to how the health care really works. The health care organizations in the U.S. need to make some adjustments to keep an optimal functioning system. The healthcare system really has changed over the years. I will be talking about the strengths and weaknesses of the healthcare system. The weakness of the health care system is that if you don’t have money to pay for it‚ then you are basically not going to get help. At the end of the year you
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Understanding Mental Health Problems 1.1 The nature of mental wellbeing and mental health is perceived in many different ways in turn causing conflict. Peoples views on the origin of mental health and the reasoning towards the conditioning of the illness creates many negative but yet also positive views. Negativity towards mental health is largely part of a lack of understanding and education towards the condition. It is believed that this may be due to the fact that mental illness is not a condition
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that by bringing tourists into the country‚ not only the health sector‚ but other sectors‚ like the tourism and hospitality sectors will also benefit and through this flow on effect the people of the host country will benefit. For example India’s health care market is expected to expand from 5.2%GDP to 8.5% GDP by the end of 2012 because of Medical tourism. (2) This is taking a superficial look at the problem. It also effects on the health care of people of the host country‚ the standard of care
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Cognitive approach also has two weaknesses‚ these two weaknesses that I am going to evaluate are that it is difficult to prove and the mechanistic reductionism. The cognitive approach is difficult to prove that it works because thoughts are not observable and are not measurable. This is a weakness because physiologist have to rely on the truthfulness of patients because there is no solid evidence what the patient thoughts are. The second weakness I am going to evaluate is the fact that the cognitive
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Theory of knowledge | EVALUATE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF REASON AS A WAY OF KNOWING | Word Count: 1‚584 | | Reason is a priori. All humans are born with it. It is a way of knowing as it is used in every area of knowledge and in collaboration with the other ways of knowing. Unlike the implication of the prescribed essay topic‚ reason is not a distinctive way of knowing. To say that is an oversimplification of the complexity of knowing. Knowledge can only be obtained through the inextricably
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