Sulejma Tmusic 3/14/2013 MED100A ASSIGNMENT 7.1 Understanding cultural beliefs is necessary to a healthcare provider because cultural differences affect patients’ attitudes about medical care. Diverse beliefs and attitudes about health and medicines‚ may affect treatment. Also it affects the patient’s ability to understand and cope with an illness‚ and the consequences of medical treatment. Cultural beliefs influence patient roles and expectations. Expectations such as how much information
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1. As a carer your role is not to do things for the individuals you care for but to do the tasks including the service user. A support workers role is to work in partnership with the individual and support their decisions‚ offer as much or as little assistance the service user requires for their care and support them to do as much as possible for themselves. If you provide too much care for an individual they can lose their skills and independence and not learn any new life skills. By providing
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CHS 245 OL Quiz 1 Study Guide Aztecs 1. What were some of the important innovations of the Aztecs? a. Building foundations‚ water aqueduct‚ dams‚ roads‚ universal school for boys and girls 2. What was the role of human sacrifice in Aztec Society? a. Religion‚ belief the world would end 3. What were some of beliefs/philosophies of the Aztecs? What is a calpolli? What were the gender roles (boys vs. girls) in Aztec society? a. Calpolli – social organization in the heart of the empire –
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Evolution of Health Care HCS/531 August 27‚ 2012 Russell Arezz III Evolution of Health Care Congress adopted the Health Maintenance Organization Act in 1973 that financed start-up costs for managed care companies and mandated firms with 25 employees or more to offer traditional health insurance. These provisions were terminate in 1995‚ but by this point health maintenance organizations and other managed care organizations were established in companies around the United States.
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Human Health and Disease What is health? ‘The state of complete physical‚ mental and social well-being’ To sustain a healthy lifestyle person needs: •A balanced and varied diet Take exercise Proper shelter Enough sleep Good hygiene will reduce the likelihood of infection What is disease? Disease is a disorder or malfunction of the mind or body‚ which leads to a departure from good health. Can be a disorder of a specific tissue or organ due to a single cause. E.g. malaria. May
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Communicable Disease Paper Enquied Fields HCS/465 May 28‚ 2014 Duane Bibbie Communicable Disease Paper In the world today‚ there are a number of communicable diseases that rely on fluid exchange‚ contaminated substances‚ or that travel through contact from an infected
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Health Care HCS 212 January 14‚ 2013 Kathy Boyden Health Care Going back hundreds of years‚ we can trace the history of health care. Although it has evolved over the years‚ it all has a common goal; to heal those who are ill. Technology is one of the major evolutions and now plays a big role in the health care system. It helps patients to be more involved with their healthcare. They can make appointments‚ follow up on test results‚ and contact their doctors. Back then‚ they didn’t even
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Communicable Disease Michael E Aponte Professor Steiner University of Phoenix HCS 457 Chickenpox is a highly communicable virus named the varicella-zoster virus and closely resembles the herpes virus. The virus can be released into the air by coughing or sneezing‚ spreading the virus from person to person. The virus also can be spread by touching the fluids from a chickenpox blister. Chickenpox is so contagious that an individual who has never had exposure to chickenpox has an 80%
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Investigation of the influence of the endothelium on the actions of acetylcholine and nitroprusside. Results (a) Estimate the maximum responses (Emax) and EC50 values for phenylephrine with the two types of arterial ring. Put this data in a single‚ self-explanatory table. Table1. Emax and EC50 values for phenylephrine. Phenylephrine | Emax in grams tension | EC50 in nM | Endothelium intact | 2.2 | 40 | Endothelium denuded | 2.9 | 10 | (c)
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Public Health and Health Care Bobbie Jean Taylor‚ II Concepts of Population Health/HCS 535 March 5‚ 2012 Beth Hale‚ PhD. Public Health and Health Care “For over 60 years‚ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been dedicated to protecting health and promoting quality of life through the prevention and control of disease‚ injury‚ and disability‚” (CDC‚ 2012‚ p. 1). The organization has a focus of decreasing the health and economic disadvantages of the principal reasons of demise and
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