issues and the impacts for the community from a public health perspective (Mauer & Smith‚ 2013). A good example of this is‚ the 2014 Ebola break out in Africa and the cases that arrived in the United States. Since health care organizations generally address local health concerns‚ there an under appreciation for the seriousness of the Ebola‚ how to contain the virus‚ and how to protect health care professionals (Kalra et al.‚ 2014).
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Complete the Healthy People 2020 Scavenger Hunt by accessing the Healthy People website located at www.healthypeople.gov. 1. What is the mission of Health People 2020? What is the mission of Health People 2020? The mission of Healthy People 2020 is to identify nationwide health improvement priorities‚ increase public awareness‚ provide measurable goals and objectives‚ strengthen policies‚ improve practices‚ and identify critical research‚ evaluation‚ and data collection needs. 2. List five
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One of the topics and objectives of healthy People 2020 is Diabetes: D-5 Improve glycemic control among persons with diabetes. School nurses play a huge role helping teenage students to control their blood sugar on a daily basis. The nurse monitors if students have appropriate supplies‚ checks if students withdraw the right amount of insulin. If the nurse notices that student’s blood sugar is constantly high for a period of time‚ he/she reaches student’s HCP and clarifies if there is a need to change
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Throughout this class‚ I have learned some really great information about the physical and mental health of a community‚ and ways to better them. With the knowledge I have obtained‚ I will now design a community that I feel is healthy‚ and describe what it would look like. For starters‚ there are some factors that I have learned that make a healthy community. These are the physical factors: geography‚ environment‚ community size‚ and industrial development. The social and cultural factors are:
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A healthy community is a place where people can prosper both physically and socially‚ reaching their full potential. In these communities health promotion is adopted‚ and every member works at maintaining a healthy lifestyle free from injury‚ illness‚ and disease. These communities improve the quality of life of their inhabitants by providing its members with healthy‚ available‚ accessible‚ and affordable options. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‚ 2014). These communities invest “in proven
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article‚ Effects of Healthy Families New York on the promotion of maternal parenting competencies and the prevention of harsh parenting‚ the main purpose is to evaluate a home visiting program and how it relates to child abuse and neglect (). The Healthy Families New York program promotes positive parenting and allows for the parent/child relationship to be founded in healthy habits. This study is used to see the effectiveness on the child’s development over time. Healthy Families America (HFA) is
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Individuals and Communities The Individual Factors that contribute to an individual’s development Factor Definition Example of positive effect on development Example of negative effect on development Self-esteem How a person values themselves. The concept we hold of ourselves begins to develop from the day we are born and can fluctuate during our lifetime. People with positive or high self-esteem value themselves as worthy contributors to society-likely to be able to form healthy relationships
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In 1979 the Surgeon General’s office published a report entitled Healthy People. From that publication sprang the Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention‚ which “described for the first time a national public health agenda” of specific health goals that if met‚ would improve the health of all Americans by 1990 (CDC.gov‚ 1989; healthypeople.gov‚ n.d.). The following year an adjunct piece was called “Promoting Health/Preventing Disease: Objectives for the Nation “ was published
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SWITCHED AT BIRTH I watched all episodes of season one Switched at Birth. The show is a one hour drama on ABC. It tells the lives of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. They find out through a high school experiment that they are not the biological children of the parents they grew up with. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother‚ while Daphne Vasquez‚ who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis
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My idea of a healthy community would be that of a place where health promotion is pushed by creating a suitable environment for the wellness of everyone. There is much that can be done to create healthy communities. Communities that support people in making healthy choices help prevent chronic diseases and the complications that can result from them. Public health works with a variety of partners to create healthy communities including transportation planners‚ city planners and land use experts because
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