Heatth Vol. 28‚ No. 1‚ pp. 51-63 © 2005 Uppincott Williams & Wilkins‚ Inc. Health-Promoting Behaviors of Sheltered Homeless Women Meg Wilson‚ PhD‚ RN To expand the body of knowledge and provide further insight into the complex area of homelessness and health‚ health practices of sheltered homeless women were investigated using a crosssectional‚ descriptive‚ and non-experimental design using Pender ’s Health Promotion Model as the theoretical framework. The sample (w = 137) was weU educated‚ mostly
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A better future: Primary Health Care Primary health care is a term used to describe a system where a patient’s health care needs are attended to by the most appropriately trained individual. This method of health care delivery has been called a “team based approach” (Health Canada‚ 2006). Instead of seeing the doctor for every health concern‚ other health professionals such as nurse practitioners‚ pharmacists‚ dieticians or physiotherapists may be called upon to take care of your concerns. In this
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1. INTRODUCTION My Company My Company is Associated Motorways Limited (AMW) established in 1949 as a family owned business enterprise‚ In 2008 which was acquired by ALFUTAN multinational company. Last year recorded an annual turnover of Rs. 1.5 Billion and group turnover (Sri Lanka) of over Rs. 24 Billion.(Annual Report 2010) Company is engaged in trading and in the manufacture of rubber products mainly for transport industry. See the Figure (1 ). [pic] Figure (1) Group Structure
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with low income are likely to be uninsured. They not only lack the healthcare coverage‚ but also do not get the quality of care and experience worse health outcomes. Disparities in health and healthcare are persistent problem in the U.S. As a prospective student pharmacist and future healthcare professional‚ it is a significant issue to me. Health disparities cause disability‚
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Adopt a Disease Outline Amanda Thompson‚ Chynitta Lacey‚ Sophia McCamey September 5‚ 2012 HCS/245 Dr. Gail Hollins‚ PhD‚ RN Trichomoniasis Thesis Statement: Even though it has been known to be a popular sexually transmitted disease‚ Trichomoniasis infects a large group of people that are unaware they are carrying this parasite. I. Introduction II. Definition of Trichomoniasis III. Transmission A. Women B. Men IV. Signs of Trichomoniasis A. Symptoms
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Community Health Advocacy Project Overview Each week you will use the Weekly Guide to guide you through the process of creating a hypothetical‚ community health advocacy project due in Week Six. The following breakdown represents each week’s part: • In Week One‚ you select an aggregate and write questions to help you identify areas of strength and of need. • In Week Two‚ you focus on describing the characteristics of your aggregate and writing an action plan on how you would
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Running head: HEALTH PROMOTION OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION 1 Health Promotion of Cardiac Rehabilitation: Post-Surgery Elderly Patients Justin Jackson Creighton University HEALTH PROMOTION OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION 2 Cardiac Rehabilitation Effects on Elderly Patients The spike in births from 1946 to 1964 has created a large population of elderly citizens in the United States. Statistics show that 7.1 individuals turn 50 years of age every minute (“The Boomer Stats‚” 2009). The growth
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Introduction Health informatics is the bridging of computer science‚ information and the health care field. This interdisciplinary field can be applied to a range of medical fields such as nursing‚ biomedicine‚ medicine and subspecialties such as immunology (immunoinformatics). Informatics not only has roles to play in day-to-day areas of immunology such as data storage/retrieval‚ decision support‚ standards and electronic health care records but also in research and education such as data mining
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Assessing‚ Planning‚ Implementing and Evaluating a Health Promotion Activity The following assignment will discuss the health forum stall the student nurses completed on “The benefits of walking and exercise” within the university‚ by identifying the health needs and target group from UK epidemiology and demography statistics. Finally the assignment will evaluate the health forum stall’s effectiveness in completing the aims and objectives by using the Process‚ Impact and Outcome evaluation tool
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The Chipko movement In the 1970s‚ an organized resistance to the destruction of forests spread throughout India and came to be known as the Chipko movement. The name of the movement comes from the word ’embrace’‚ as the villagers hugged the trees‚ and prevented the contractors’ from felling them. Not many people know that over the last few centuries many communities in India have helped save nature. One such is the Bishnoi community of Rajasthan. The original ’Chipko movement’ was started around
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