2)The interviewee’s experience with prejudice and what has he or she done to manage it 3)What information the interviewee thinks would be important for a Human Service worker to know about their special population 4)What services would be helpful to the interviewee’s special population in today’s society and in the future 5)How language has affected the interviewee and their connection to their culture 6)If the interviewee has experienced discrimination and how it has affected
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Special population Interview Irene Antunez What is your view on your culture including both strength and weakness? One of the gay culture is the willingness to be able to speak out and be brave enough to confront people that try to degrade us for being gay. We believe in what we fight for‚ and some of us have died for the dream of being able to be as equal as everybody else. Our weakness is not being able to reach out to everybody. Unfortunately‚ we cannot have the support of every person that
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Cancer Patient Information HCA/240 Cancer It is a group of diseases by an uncontrolled growth that spreads abnormal cells. Cancer spreads and if not controlled it will kill you; the earliest detection is better for your chances of survival. The risk of cancer increases with your age‚ the older you are the greater your risk is for developing cancer. Middle aged and older adults are more out to get cancer. Lifetime Risks Individuals will develop
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Population health is the aggregation of various approach to health care that determines the health outcome of a group of individuals (Nash‚ JoAnne‚ Fabius‚ & Pracilio‚ 2011). Population health brings together the total quality of health of individuals in the community‚ considering the disparities in cultures‚ socioeconomical status‚ demographics‚ etc. The outcome of health of individuals in a giving population is highly determined by the policies that govern the healthcare delivery and care interventions
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Running head: The Needs of Special Offenders The Needs of Special Offenders Professor Gregory Baugh Jeremiah Ritzenthaler University of Phoenix/CJA 234 The Needs of Special offenders Inmates with special needs‚ the mentally ill‚ and the substance abusing inmates all make up a large number of the prison population. These inmates affect the prison systems in different ways. Providing programs for the mentally ill inmates is extremely difficult for correctional staff. A very high percentage
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Population Health Proposal Population Health Proposal Introduction In today’s changing healthcare landscape‚ health systems will need to become population health managers and remain financially viable. In order to accomplish this‚ the leadership team will have to attain a comprehensive economic perspective. This requires integration of payer‚ physician‚ health system and patient considerations to understand the financial impact on the system as a whole. Economic awareness and understanding
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Prisoners with Special Needs Melanie Di Frisco CJA/234 Sherri Webster February 16‚ 2015 Prisoners with Special Needs There are always going to be prisoners that will have various special needs that cause for the acknowledgement of some particular occupants. The correctional establishments are completely conscious of these needs. The facility as a whole need to be more aware of how to handle appropriately these specific inmates and still handle the necessary normal functions and proper correctional
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Teaching Strategies for Special Populations Felicia Adams Santos HCA 331 Prof. Amy Daly June 20‚ 2011 The things we do as health professionals happens to be a never ending job. That’s because there will always be a patient to educate and help them become their own self care agent. One of the many things we teach is either how to maintain their health or restore it. We also have to reach out to the families of the patients because they have to
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Prisons are made up of several types of offenders‚ however within the prison populations‚ there are those offenders which make up the special needs category or those who are known for substance abuse. The reason why these special need inmates affect the jail and prison system‚ both on a federal and state level would be because of the specialized attention in which they require. If these prisoners are not given the proper attention that is needed for their disability‚ they can because a danger
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Reformation for the Health of the Population Population health is an ever progressing branch of medicine that is fundamentally concerned with improving the health of a population as opposed to the sole health of the individual. Advances in technology continue to improve the average life expectancy‚ yet the American healthcare system is failing to evolve. Insurance companies routinely collect huge profits‚ yet a significant portion of the American population remains subject to poor health care. Reconstructions
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