Chronic Disease: Asthma Outline Kyle S. Leister SCI-162 08/12/2012 Dr. John Wallman Chronic Disease: Asthma Outline I. Introduction: Looking at Asthma and breaking it down to fully understand the chronic disease. II. Description of Asthma: A. Meaning of Asthma 1. Asthma as a word means‚ “To breathe hard.” Just as the definition of the word‚ people with asthma have a hard time breathing‚ tightness in the chest and wheezing can occur. It is also a chronic disease of the respiratory
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Current Health Promotion Pamphlet: Hand washing to Prevent Flu‚ Colds‚ Etc. Current Health Promotion Pamphlet: Hand washing to Prevent Flu‚ Colds‚ Etc. Health promotion is‚ “The process of enabling individuals and communities to increase control over the determinants of health and thereby improve their health” (Dawson‚ & Grill‚ 2012‚ p. 101). Empowering individuals to address health risk behaviors and care for themselves is an important responsibility. Health education is necessary to affect
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Health Promotion and Nursing Practice Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V September 19‚ 2013 Health Promotion and Nursing Practice Heath promotion as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO‚ 2013) is “the process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions.” It is the intention of this writer to present health promotion in nursing practice and relate this
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head: LEVELS OF HEALTH PROMOTIONS IN NURSING PRACTICE Levels of Health Promotions in Nursing Practice Patricia Hartman Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotions NRS429V July 15‚ 2012 Levels of Health Promotions in Nursing Practice Dimensions of the environment are not only physical but also psychosocial and spiritual care and involvement. Health promotions are identified as participation of individuals and family with care delivery. The community health profession teaches
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Asthma is a chronic disease that causes the airways - the tubes that carry air in and out of your lungs - to become sore and swollen. In the United States‚ about 20 million people have asthma. Nearly 9 million of them are children. Children have smaller airways than adults‚ which makes asthma especially serious for them. Children with asthma may experience wheezing‚ coughing‚ chest tightness and trouble breathing‚ especially early in the morning or at night. ("Asthma In Children"‚ 2012). Anyone
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year old boy who has had a history of eczema and asthma since early childhood. According to Guibas et al (2012) asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease of childhood: its prevalence has been rising in the western world for the last three decades. In Scotland‚ 368‚000 people (1 in 14) are currently receiving treatment for asthma. This includes 72‚000 children and 296‚000 adults. There are 5.4 million people living with asthma in the UK and around 1 million of these are children
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Introduction Asthma is chronic inflammatory disease of the airways in the lungs which cause recurrent bronchial obstruction. Its symptoms demonstrate as shortness of breath‚ wheezing‚ cough‚ chest tightness as well as cyanosis. It is the most common chronic disease among children. This case is on a five-year-old girl called Jessica who was in emergency department for an asthma attack and was diagnosed with moderately severe asthma. The following essay will focus on Jessica’s case and explain the
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and sentence structure issues for your consideration. 1. What is the writer’s claim? * The writers claim is that asthma should be considered a disability in the workforce. 2. What three reasons does the writer give in support of her/his claim? * I didn’t see three reasons to support the claim but you did provide statistics to show how prevalent asthma is. 3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the writer’s reasons. Which reasons are believable and which are not believable? Why
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Health Promotion Lisa Greenspon Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Sandi Coufal RN‚ MSN May 26‚ 2013 Health Promotion Health Promotion is defined as (Mandle‚ 2010‚ p. 16) “the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health.” Kreuter and Devore (1980) propose a more complex definition in a paper commissioned by the U.S. Public Health Service. They s(Serxner‚ )tate that health promotion is “the process of
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Health Promotion - The Fruitful Life Choice Alice Sisco Grand Canyon University Family Centered Health Promotion NRS - 429V November 03‚ 2012 Health Promotion - The Fruitful Life Choice Health promotion is defined as the science and art of helping people change their lifestyle to move toward a state of optimal health (Edelman & Mandle‚ 2010). The World Health Organization (WHO) believes health promotion allows health to be a resource and not the objective of living (WHO‚ 2012). This
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