public becomes aware of the general health benefits and side effects of adequate and inadequate sleep. Overview The goal of Healthy People 2020 is to educate the public on how the right amount sleep of sleep at night improves health‚ productivity‚ wellness‚ quality of life and safety on roads and in workplace. (Heathy People 2020) The major issues that Healthy People 2020 have to face are in the increase of time being spent away from home‚ which incurs in lack of adequate sleep. An increasing amount
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Healthy people 2020 objectives related to adolescent is to reduce use of cigarettes use by adolescents by 3.5 percent and the initiation of cigarette use by 2 percent. Another goal would be to reduce the number of adolescents that are exposed to cigarette smoke by 4.5 percent. Statistics from Healthy People 2020 show that in 2008 and 2009 19.5 percent of adolescents were current smokers‚ 6.3 percent had just begun smoking in the past 12 months‚ and 45.5 percent of adolescents who do not smoke were
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1. Explain the use of each of the six phases of the nursing process. The nursing process consists of six dynamic and interrelated phases: assessment‚ diagnosis‚ outcome identification‚ planning‚ implementation and evaluation 2. List the elements of each of the six phases of the nursing process Asses- gather information about the clients condition‚ Diagnose-identify the client’s problems‚ plan and identify outcomes- set goals of care and desired outcomes and identify appropriate nursing actions
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One of the Healthy People 2020 goals is to understand mental health and mental disorders. The Dallas Morning News had an article title “ Words matter when fighting the stigma of mental illness” . This is an opportunity for mental health promotion. In the article the author argues for the need to demystified metal illness and to use language that is more respectful. As the author suggest it is important to educate the media and the people about mental illness‚ encourage them to use more hopeful language
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1. Describe your clinical activities this week and how they relate to the goals of Healthy People 2020. This week the students had PSSA testing. Because of the importance of the testing‚ it is imperative for the students to consume a nutritious breakfast. Unfortunately‚ many of the students did not have breakfast before testing; therefore‚ this week’s activities consisted of providing some sort of and A.M. snack prior to the testing. The students were given either crackers or fruit snacks. In addition
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Healthy People 2020 Paper In a day and age when physical activity has gone the way of playing video games‚ watching television and ordering take out‚ the end result can be obesity and disease. Staying physically active eating healthy are mainstays in having a healthy lifestyle. This paper will discuss physical activity and obesity and why the health topic is so important. Next‚ the paper will examine progress on increasing physical activity and reducing obesity rates and discuss the national progress
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“Healthy People 2020 is committed to the vision of a society in which all people live long healthy lives” (Healthy People‚ 2012). Promoting wellness and fitness are important health goals for me and my family. I often make healthy resolution every year in January and that is to get physically fit‚ to be more active‚ to eat better‚ to lose weight and to manage stresses in work and family life. I do try to eat healthy foods and I do not smoke. I also learned how to manage my stress through meditation
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Category I The source I chose for category 1 is Healthy People 2010 Objectives‚ found at the website‚ www.healthypeople.gov. This URL is the official website where you can find all the information about Healthy People 2010. Healthy People 2010 is a list of objectives for our nation that is set every ten years‚ that we will try to meet. The objectives are all health related and cover a wide range of different health aspects. Specifically‚ the list includes 28 different focus areas with a total
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For many people‚ not everyone knows of the nationally recognized group Healthy People. This organization’s known as a program of nationwide health promotion and disease-prevention goals set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The goals were first set in 1979‚ for the following decade. These goals subsequently have been updated for Healthy People 2000‚ 2010‚ and 2020. In 2010‚ the two overarching goals that happened to be the primary targets for Healthy People included increasing
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Healthy People 2020: Genetic Testing The objective that I chose from the Healthy People 2020 Objectives was to increase the proportion of genetic testing. This is a new objective‚ having not been included in Healthy People 2010. The genomics discipline is a budding field and it concerns the study of an individual’s genome. Genomics uses knowledge of the molecular source of a disease in order to help predict‚ treat and quantify the likelihood of disease reoccurrence. For years‚ Katie Couric and
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