The issue of cultural competence in medical practice has become more and more widely discussed and urgent in recent years. This type of competence for a doctor implies the ability to adapt medical care to the cultural context required in the situation of a particular patient. Non-White patients in America...
The importance of the health system increases since the health of the population is a resource that affects the characteristics of the development of the entire socio-economic system. Regional health systems form a certain level and quality of health capital in the region and affect the region’s socio-economic development by...
Introduction Over the decades, the US has undergone various healthcare reforms on healthcare coverage and the underlying cost. Recent debates have questioned whether the US healthcare should be shaped by the government, private entity competition, or forces within the healthcare market. The Republicans argue that healthcare should be shaped by...
Intervention Plan Nurses and other medical professionals should apply their competencies to solve most of the challenges encountered in their surrounding communities and institutions. They can engage in interprofessional collaboration to identify such problems and formulate workable solutions. Experts who fail to consider these ideas will take longer to achieve...
Access to maternal health resources such as contraceptive care is a vital constituent for women’s well-being during pregnancy, giving birth, and postpartum. Even though contraceptive care, abortion specifically, is legal throughout the country’s states, people trying to obtain the procedure encounter various obstacles. Florida can serve as an example of...
Introduction Diabetes is one of the major topic areas identified in Healthy People 2020. It is estimated that one out of ten Americans is ill with a certain form of diabetes (CDC, 2015). Over one-fourth of people having diabetes are not yet diagnosed (CDC, 2015). Diabetes places serious limitations on...
Audience The effects of the coronavirus pandemic have been tremendously negative, especially for vulnerable groups. The situation has been particularly challenging in terms of maintaining people’s mental health at the required level. Due to the claustrophobic nature of lockdowns, a range of people have been feeling excluded from social interactions,...
Goals Promoting quality care through affordable medical insurance Championing the critical role of insurance providers Providing adequate medical insurance models through innovative ideas Promoting equity for all Americans in accessing health insurance Delivering quality results for all patients in every community America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) believes that attaining quality...
A Proposal for Health Education for White People Health education – a set of different activities. Methods: discussions, lectures, online education, exhibitions. The study of hygiene in child-rearing. Health education – the formation of a lifestyle. Understanding the needs of the target group. Health education is a set of educational,...
In my opinion, the development of the field of public health is one of the most crucial achievements in the world because it helps to protect population against illnesses and other health problems. Besides, public health may address such issues as disease preventions, health promotion on a global scale, and...
Adolescence is a crucial period of a person’s life, as it shapes the key physical and mental characteristics. However, it is considered to be challenging as well because teenage years are associated with a variety of topical issues. Adolescent obesity poses serious concerns among public health specialists for several reasons....
Findings on Healthcare Professional Practice Healthcare professional practice reflects commitment to caring for patients and families. It offers appropriate skills required to demonstrate competency and ethical values. It also enables students to apply specialized knowledge in delivering quality services. After learning about healthcare issues and identifying areas of specialization, the...
Interview What are your family roles/gender roles? How are they the same as or different from those traditionally practiced by your culture (who is the head of the household, who makes decisions, how are decisions made, etc.)? Eve: Family role can be described as supporting. This factor defines some gender...
Introduction In mental health research, suicide and risk management protocols focus on guaranteeing patient well-being and response to anticipated and unexpected situations. Research Problem Suicide is the second leading cause of death for adolescents, as per the American Academy of Pediatrics (“Suicide in children and teens,” 2018). The research written...
Managing chronic illness is a complex problem for the patient, first of all, and the healthcare provider as well because this specialist should become the support consultant for one’s patient through the course of the disease. At that, the healthcare provider will need to do one’s best to provide effective...
Introduction Topic: Obligatory Scheduled Blood Donation from Healthy People Issue: The lack of blood supply in the U.S. emergency healthcare facilities calls for the introduction of obligatory blood donations from healthy people. Thesis: By creating a health policy according to which healthy people should donate blood regularly, healthcare experts will...
Introduction The exploration of consumption routines and their implications on health-related consequences is fresh and is starting to concern healthcare policymakers. The consumption patterns demonstrate that particular harmful and balanced eating habits discovered from the Food Frequency Questionnaire are connected with and anticipate regulation of chronic illness biomarkers (Reininger et...
Introduction Using data from the Healthy People 2020 website, in the first section, this paper discusses the commonalities among the countries that have the longest life expectancies. The second section, it discusses why the United States ranks quite low on the catalog of life expectancy. Commonalities among the Countries that...
Description of the Project Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection acts as the most widespread sexually transmitted infection internationally (Leval et al., 2013). HPV infection could occur even if the transmitting individual does not show any symptoms. Usually, HPV infection ebbs away even with no treatment although in its persistent occurrences it...
Introduction Background and Significance of the Problem Despite the efforts taken to reduce the exposure to sexually transmitted diseases among young adults, the threat remains very high in some communities. The reasons for the failure of promoting health literacy among the target population may vary depending on the community and...
Project Description The clinical question that will be employed in the project is: “What is the influence of education and vaccination on the rate of HPV infection for adolescents and young adult patients that visit health facilities?” This project will seek to assess the impact of improved awareness and vaccination...
Nurse leaders often have to face challenging situations and resolve ethical problems in their practice. The American Nursing Association (ANA) identified nonmaleficence as its fourth principle of ethics, according to which nurses must practice without causing harm to the patients and their communities (Gaines, 2020). In the case study scenario,...
Adolescent and teenage substance abuse could have a significant influence on their health and well-being. In contrast, it is easy to recognize the apparent risks of nicotine, drug, and alcohol use, such as the potential for negative consequences like personal injury, car accidents, and addiction. However, there are also less...
Introduction Obesity is a nutritional disorder characterized by excessive caloric intake more than the body’s requirement resulting in an increase in fat deposition in the body tissues. Clinically, the inadequacy or excessive nutritional information is determined by dividing a person’s mass in kilogram to their height in meters to find...
Person 1 The report in question provides valuable insights into the way students see the problem of smoking. I am not smoking, and I am for the creation of smoke-free zones. Ridner, Hahn, Staten, and Miller (2006) note that the vast majority of students agree that smoke-free environments are critical....
The article is about the use of an intervention package and teamwork training to address the risk of self-contamination during personal protective equipment (PPE) doffing tasks. The study is a randomized control trial (RCT) conducted in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Biocontainment Unit in Baltimore, Maryland, and approved by the institutional...
Providing access to resources for maternal health is one of the foundational requirements that healthcare policies must meet. However, due to the lack of updates and resources, some of the states may have less than satisfactory policies on the subject matter. Due to high poverty rates and the resulting lack...
Dr. Jason Lee said it is essential to monitor allergy symptoms to know the difference between whether a person is infected with the COVID-19 or has an allergy (as cited in Somos, 2021). Allergy symptoms are nasal congestion, sneezing, while chills and muscle pain indicate COVID-19. The best solution is...
Group Preference The topic of the proposed study is the areas of improvement in the current post-traumatic stress disorder therapy to enhance suicide prevention in the veteran population. Since the study aims at broadening the scope of evidence-based methods of counseling for veterans by means of changing behavioral patterns and...
Miami-Dade County has a high rate of cultural diversity. As pointed out by Healthy People (2016), the African-American community represents 19% of the area’s population, and as to the Hispanic and Latino residents, in Miami-Dade County, they comprise about 65.5% of the whole population and are the largest community. One...
Health Resources The Miami health department is easily accessible, and the main public hospital is located within walking distance of the department. There is evidence of large public and private hospitals in Miami providing in-patient and mental health services. Several physician and dental offices in the community provide services to...
Introduction The economic and technological advancements that occurred during the last century changed dietary regimens and the number of people who lead a sedentary lifestyle, increasing obesity rates. The issue concerns not only the adult population but also its youngest members. Childhood obesity has a potential long-term impact on adult...
Introduction The aggregate is older adults, whose age is between 60 and 80 years old, of the community of Miami, Florida. The geographical location is Miami Dade County, where the population of older adults is approximately 20% (“Community health assessment 2019 infographics,” 2019). The total population size of the given...
Health is one of the vital aspects that human beings should enjoy in their lifetime. In the recent past, several countries have embarked on steps that minimize the challenges associated with healthcare and ensure that all their citizens enjoy high-quality healthcare. However, there are some of the populations in various...
Abstract People understand culture differently depending on their perceptions towards its effects in different sectors of life. People’s understanding varies due to the differences in their cognitive functionality and the ability to master and retain concepts learned within a specified period. The main goal of the nursing practice is to...
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has remained a contentious issue in the United States (Mukherjee, 2016). The current political climate experienced in the country has resulted in new concerns regarding the future of the Act. The article “Instead of ObamaCare: Giving Health-Care Power to the People” offers meaningful suggestions that...
Overview of the Navajos The Navajos are the largest recognized tribe of the American population whose enrolled tribe members stand at 300,048 million members. The population of the Alaska people stands at 180, 462,100. Their place of residence is located along the Southwestern part of the US. For centuries, the...
Person 1 In 2006, a study of students’ attitudes towards second-hand smoke was carried out to find out the importance of SHS-free environments. This study implemented a cross-sectional design for assessing students’ opinions about second-hand smoke. 1700 students from the university located in a tobacco-producing state have been chosen for...
Introduction Smoking is one of the leading causes of death in many parts of the world. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 44 million youths in the United States smoke cigarettes. A large percentage of these individuals die from tobacco-related health conditions. Modern technologies are...
Overview The United States has many people from different backgrounds. Asian Americans “have their origins in the Far East and the Indian subcontinent” (Ho, 2015, p. 28). Many individuals from countries such as Korea, Japan, India, the Philippines, and China are grouped in this racial group. This “race comprises over...
Purpose of the Program The purpose of the diabetes management and quality improvement initiative is to act as a vehicle that is effective in enhancing the process of the healthcare provider and the outcome of patients. It will also decrease the proportion of complications related to diabetes. More than ninety-four...
Introduction The urge to develop and maintain healthy nations has compelled various countries to develop robust medical structures. France and the United States are among the nations that have developed complex healthcare delivery systems. The French system adopts universal health coverage. It has a public-private mix of hospital and ambulatory...
Health Resources and General Information: Back to the Basics Unfortunately, Flushing does not have many health services to offer. The Types of services available: health agencies, private MD and much more Home Health Aid Medical Social Help Medicare Occupational Therapy Physical Therapy Speech Pathology (Flushing, NY home health care agencies,...
The population at the highest risk of HIV/AIDs infection in Thailand consists of; commercial sex workers, their clients, drug users particularly those using intravenous drugs, and those engaging in casual non-commercial sex. The intervention targeted the sex workers and their clients. This was after a resolution that even though commercial...
Abstract This paper investigates the crisis of lethality in suicide. The paper bases its argument on research from primary sources including books and recent publications. Many scholars have conducted researches to examine the dynamics of suicide using interpersonal theories. Upon review of several literature materials, it is evident that suicide...
Socio-cultural factor directly influences the attitudes of the population towards health and common behaviors related to health issues. For example, the age of childbirth is directly affected by such components of the socio-cultural factor as religion, education, ethnicity, national traditions, etc. Economic factor also has a huge impact on health...
Synopsis Change being experienced in the environment is raising a lot of concern from many quarters because life depends on it. Human beings wholly depend on the environment for all the basic needs of life. The ability of the environment to sustain life directly depends on how well it is...
Introduction Menstrual disorders are something that women rarely pay attention to. Many of these disorders are either asymptomatic or have minor symptoms that do not violate the usual flow of life. That is why women tend to ignore those until the condition worsens, and a visit to a gynecologist can...
Introduction According to global standards, Singapore is one of the developed countries. Besides, the country is highly populated. Lim alleges, “Today, Singapore faces health problems and diseases more akin to Europe and North America than most of its Southeast Asian neighbors” (2004, p. 84). The fact that Singapore is classified...
Background The issue of marijuana legalization remains topical in Florida. Despite the recent campaign for marijuana legalization, the current legislation presupposes that the use of medicinal marijuana should be restricted to permitting children with rare types of cancer and epilepsy the use of cannabis that does not trigger drug intoxication...
Introduction Downs syndrome is a developmental condition that is also known as trisomy 21. This condition is characterized by additional genetic material that leads to delayed child development. This delay is both mental and physical. This condition is very prevalent in the United States and statistics have revealed that one...
Introduction The official name of the country, chosen for the analysis, is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), also known as North Korea. The rationale behind this particular selection is that there is a good reason to believe that the functioning of the country’s healthcare system provides many insights...
Introduction The Healthy People 2020 comprises 10-year targets that aim at guiding the U.S. healthcare system in the promotion and prevention of maladies in a bid to have a healthy population. The initiative has 42 topic areas that include sexually-transmitted, mental and communicable diseases, health indicators, substance abuse, immunization and...
Abstract This paper has addressed the factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease among the Hispanics living in the United States. A comprehensive review of peer-reviewed journals was made to collect as much relevant information as possible. It was found that the risk factors for cardiovascular disease among Hispanics are poor...
Neuman’s Biographer Betty Neuman is a famous theorist whose ideas have improved the nature of nursing care. Betty was born in Ohio in 1924. She received her registered nurse diploma (RND) in 1947. She later moved to California where she worked as a clinical instructor. She later received a BSN...
The health status report is important in healthcare because it provides a snapshot of determinants of health, which influence the health status of the population. The health status of the Honduran population is that of a developing country because the health care system is grappling with major challenges in health....
Introduction Suicide is a leading cause of death globally. Nearly 1 million cases of suicide are reported worldwide every year (Roberts, 2005). In the U.S alone, between 30,000 and 35,000 suicides are reported in a year. However, these are conservative estimates and experts agree that the figure could be as...
Suicide is seemingly becoming an enormous social issue in the society. In the United States, suicide is ranked tenth among the leading causes of death with a total of 38,364 deaths reported annually. In 2012, firearm suicides accounted for the highest number of deaths, in which 19,392 cases were reported....
The healthcare system is one of the most important sectors in a nation. This means that it is imperative for a country’s healthcare system to be well organized for better and exemplary service provision to all people (Agrawal, 2012). Human resource management is the administration of staff and the company’s...
Summary of the intervention plan Diabetes type-2 is a chronic disease that affects a large segment of the world and the United States is no exception. Diabetes affects almost 200 million people across the world and the number is expected to reach 350 million by 2030 (Unger, 2012). The entire...
Overview The Navajos are from a minority cultural group in the United States. The Navajo people have their own government. This “government manages the reservation of Indian Americans” (Locke, 2012, p. 24). A reservation is “a piece of land owned and controlled by a specific group” (Locke, 2012, p. 65)....
Mental Health Policy and Integrated Care is an article written by C.D. Zolnierek in the Psychiatric and Mental Health-Nursing Journal. Through the article, Zolnierek notes that cases of mental illnesses are on the rise, and predicts that before the year 2020, the illness would be among the leading causes of...
Abstract The study examines literature and factors that influencing vaccination among the African American children. The literature says that African American children encountered barriers in accessing immunization. Some of the barriers that affecting the African American include socioeconomic status, motherhood education, having more than one child in the family and...
Environmental health is the part of the public health policy. It investigates numerous external factors, which can affect people’s health and well-being. Environmental health has two primary goals. The first one is to examine and evaluate potential threats to public health. The second is to control those threatening factors by...
Introduction Rape is a form of sexual assault that involves sexual intercourse with an individual without their consent (Horvath & Brown, 2013). It is usually perpetrated through physical force, coercion, or through taking advantage of helpless individuals such as unconscious or paralyzed people. Effects of rape include physical harm, diseases,...
Introduction Mortality rate refers to the measure of the certain number of deaths in a given population within a certain period. Time is the major factor for the rate to be determined. Guatemala is a country located in Central America, bordering Mexico, Belize, and El Salvador with a population of...
Health and Illness in the Community The United States (US) health indicator of general populations is hailed as one of the best in the world, and has been rated highly by the United Nations Human Development Index (UNHDI). Yet, this does not reflect the existing disparity and suffering of the...
Introduction Sleep can be defined as a state of partial or complete unconsciousness where a person is inactive and cannot perform voluntary activities of the body. Only involuntary body activities such as beating of the heart take place. Sleep is important for normal development of the body. A person should...
Introduction Health issues are a significant factor in the development of a country. High child and adult mortality rates inhibit a country’s growth, thus resulting in failure towards the attainment of the set goals. Child and adult mortality rates in the African continent derail the rate at which the developing...
Overview Alaska natives are the natural inhabitants or indigenous people of Alaska. The people are associated with various cultures that include but are not limited to Aleut, Eyak, Tingit, Haida, and Yupik (Roderick, 2010). The cultures define their way of life, beliefs, religious practices, standards of living, and social habits....
There is no use denying the fact that the modern age could be called the era of humanism as a human being is proclaimed to be the greatest value which should be protected. Having realized the great importance of every individual, society initiated various programs oriented on the increase of...
Communication is an important issue for health professionals if they want their health promotion activities to have an impact. If health professionals are not able to communicate with obese patients successfully, no matter what they do or say, it will fail to impact positively. When presenting health promotion activities, the...
There is no use denying the fact that health of people is one of the most important factors with determines the state of society and is a key to its further development. It is even possible to say that quality and term of human life influence the level of development...
HPV, or Human Papilloma Virus, is a group of more than 150 viruses, some of which can produce warts (papillomas) on your body or infect genital areas of both men and women. There are even types of HPV that can lead cancer. HPV is mostly spread through skin-to-skin contact. It...
Introduction Emergency Department Thoracotomy (EDT) is a common medical procedure for saving the life of a patient who has had a chest injury (Cardiothoracic trauma). While some studies show that most EDT patients have a survival rate of more than 50%, others believe that this percentage is lower (Chalkias, 2012)....
Introduction Community health centers refer to “Non-profit, community-directed providers that remove common barriers to care by serving communities who otherwise confront financial, geographic, language, cultural and other barriers” (Gusmano, Fairbrother & Park, 2002, p. 189). Community health centers are used to offer health services to underserved and uninsured people in...
The literature review clearly demonstrates that there is a close relationship between physical activity and functional limitations among the aging population. Scientific studies have revealed that older people who are actively involved in physical exercise have lower chances of suffering from some of the common forms of physical limitations associated...
Introduction Diabetes is one of the leading health problems that are affecting most Americans today. According to the research by Liburd (2013), it is estimated that about 23.6 Americans suffer from Type 2 diabetes. It is ranked seventh among the leading causes of death in the country. The research by...
Difference between health promotion and wellness Health promotion is the strategy adopted by relevant agencies to make a community free of diseases. Reflectively, health promotion encompasses the state of an individual in relation to diseases. On the other hand, wellness encompasses different strategies that are applied to ensure that an...
Introduction Epstein, Coleman and Myers (2013) claim, “One out of every five children in the United States is obese, and this number continues to rise” (p. 429). Chances are high for an overweight child to remain the same until adulthood. Besides, such children are at the risk of contracting chronic...
Abstract An evaluation of my perceptions about the health and illness of the community in which I live focused on my knowledge on health problems and risks affecting vulnerable groups covering maternal and child health. The use of contraceptives for family planning and birth control methods were the critical areas...
This assignment is about the comparison of the USA Health Care System with that of Norway. I chose Norway as a country to compare the USA with Norway to enable me to achieve some knowledge on how Norway carries its Health Care System. In addition, Norway and America share some...
Health Perception The perception of health and illness vary with time and from one community to another (Katz, 2013). In the United States, chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes are considered as the main causes of disability, illness, and death. As asserted by Katz (2013), chronic diseases...
Introduction There is an enormous amount of personality types and people are capable of many things. Some are able to cope with stress and find ways to prevent depression while others cannot handle the pressure and resort to other methods. Suicide is one of the ways people deal with problems...
Introduction Nowadays, the term of crisis intervention became widespread in the medical theory as well as in the media which tries to explain to the public the distinction between a problem and a crisis and to give advice on how to cope with both of them. The specifically developed strategies...
Introduction A 65-year old Caucasian female presented with a chief complaint of dry cough that had lasted for two weeks and low grade fever that that she had experienced for two days. The X-ray examination showed hyperinflation of both lungs with an increased AP diameter. This pointed to evidence of...
Introduction The chosen country for this assignment in Nepal. Nepal has been selected for this study because of its healthcare model that is offered by both the government and private sectors, ranked poorly on the international understanding, as well as the influence of Asian culture on treatment and modern medicine....
Introduction The Health People 2020 initiative was started in 2010 in an attempt to improve America’s health. The main vision of the initiative is to produce a society whereby every person has a healthy life. The initiative is currently focusing on specific goals. The first goal is to eliminate disparities...
Introduction Diabetes is a common disease among the young people in the United States of America. The increased prevalence of obesity among the children and the adolescents in US has resulted in increased cases of diabetes type II (Olfson, Blanco, Liu, Wang & Correll, 2012). Dietary practices and sedentary lifestyle...
Introduction Banner Health has its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. This non-profit making organization has 23 hospitals and employs slightly over 35,000 people. It was founded in 1999 following a merger between Samaritan Health System and Lutheran Health System (Mensik, 2014). The system offers emergency care, hospice, hospital care, outpatient surgery...
The expectancy of life has risen significantly during the last centuries (Schneider & Lilienfeld, 2011, p. 13). Such positive tendency is closely related to the development of the concept of public health aimed at maintaining good health state among the members of society. This concept involves a wide range of...
Introduction The Healthy People 2020 initiative has the aim of improving the health of Americans by providing national health objectives and benchmarks. This initiative also targets to improve the health of the population through input from different sectors (About Healthy People, 2015). The objectives, goals and indicators in the healthy...
Introduction A deeper understanding of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs/STIs) is imperative, especially regarding interventions aimed at reducing the associated high prevalence and incidence rates, which are highest among adolescents and young adults aged 15 to 24 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2013). One main STI...
Introduction In Los Angeles County, around 10% of the residents are diabetic. It is estimated that the number of pre-diabetic residents in the County of Los Angeles is far greater than the number of residents with diabetes. If no action is taken, then the pre-diabetic people are at risk of...
Impact of Infant Mortality in the Assessment of Community Health Minkler (2012) defines infant mortality as the death that occurs during the first year of life. Infant mortality is a representation of the concern within the public health sector. The relationship between infant mortality and community health concerns was established...
Impact of Infant Mortality on the Assessment of Community Health Infant mortality refers to the death of kids who are below the age of twelve months. Infant mortality is a significant indicator of the welfare of children and the whole community (Rosato et al., 2008). Since the child death rate...
Introduction Intensive Care Unit patients suffer the risk of losing their lives due to the critical illnesses they suffer from and ventilator-associated infections contracted while under special care, such as nosocomial pneumonia. The infection affects 27% of the patients and medical experts rate it as one of the most common...
Introduction There are impressive achievements in the health care sector of the 21st century, compared to previous centuries. Unprecedented improvements such as the increase in life expectancy, quality, and technology are instrumental to these achievements. However, the increasing costs and performance variations offset these achievements. This paper provides a simple...
Introduction Obesity among U.S. citizens is escalating rapidly, almost becoming an epidemic. Its prevalence poses a public health predicament thus necessitating urgent and thoughtful prevention measures. Further, Obesity causes diverse challenges to communities thus making it a societal health concern. Anecdotal evidence shows obesity incidence disparities among communities’ residents. Addressing...
Introduction Health facilities aim at offering quality, timely, and affordable health care services; to attain this noble objective, the leadership within the organizations must be effective and responsive to societal health needs (Cleverly & Cameron 2007:12). Health facilities leaders are leaders in t either leaders in the main line of...
Introduction Although every clinician must warn patients about the risks of nicotine addiction and facilitate their recovery, there might be cases when people are not ready to quit smoking. Fiore et al. (2008) noted that clinical interventions in the form of persuasion, lectures, and debates about the downsides of smoking...
Health literacy is the ability of the individual to understand and correctly use information related to health management. Low health literacy level results in poor health outcomes, more frequent cases of hospitalization, and a higher level of morbidity. Therefore, identification of the difficulties in interpreting health information is required for...