Sleep Health Due to our chaotic lives in school and at work we often neglect in getting the adequate amount of sleep at night. Proper amount of sleep helps with our growth‚ development and function. It is imperative the 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
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the provision of health care. Health care organizations need to be aware of global heath 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
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store or bank of information) 4. Discuss the steps used to formulate a nursing diagnosis A nursing diagnosis is a clinical judgement about individual‚ family‚ or community responses about actual or potential health problems/life processes. 5. Differentiate between types of health problems It is important to distinguish collaborative problems and medical diagnoses from nursing diagnoses. these two types of problems are defined and discussed separately 6. Describe the development of patient
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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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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 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. 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: Physical Activity an Effort to Decrease Childhood Obesity Florida International University Care of Communities: Community Health Nursing NUR4636 Professor Maria De Los Santos April 16‚ 2014 Healthy People provide a 10-year national objective for improving the health of Americans. It has established benchmarks and monitored progress over time in order to encourage collaborations across the country‚ empowering individuals toward making knowledgeable
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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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HP2020 is not only focused on the health of the individual‚ but it also includes eliminating disparities‚ while improving the health of all groups of people. Healthy People 2020 defines health equity as the “attainment of the highest level of health for all people (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion‚ 2016). Achieving health equity requires valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities‚ historical and contemporary injustices‚
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