...Health Promotion through Patient Education Marianne Green Grand Canyon University February 25, 2012 Health Promotion through Patient Education “The current care systems cannot do the job. Trying harder will not work. Changing systems of care will” (The National Academies Press, 2010, p. 41). Health care transformation has become a major focus in the United States. Implementing these changes requires a complete overhaul of the current system through changes in approaches, guidelines and direction in patient care. With the increasing amount of elderly entering the health care system, insurance premiums on the rise and health costs increasing contribute to this disparity. Individuals with unhealthy lifestyles such as drug use, alcoholism, and poor eating habits also drive health care costs higher. The meaning of “health promotion” has been defined as helping people to change their lifestyles and enable them to move toward a state of optimal health. In a paper written by the U.S. Public Health Service in 1980, health promotion was set forth as a process that would advocate health and will likely enhance personal (individual, family and community), private (professional and business) and public government(local, state, and federal). The goal is that through support of positive health practices, a societal norm will evolve (Edelman & Mandle, 2009). As each individual goes through life, health promotion serves as a service that helps humans to be able to function...
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...J., Guastalla J. P, & Chauvin F. (2011) European Journal of Cancer Care 20, 520-527. Adherence with oral chemotherapy: results from a qualitative study of the behavior and representations of patients and oncologists. This study was conducted to evaluate the importance of partnership between the patient and the prescriber in oral chemotherapy adherence. 42 patients taking Capecitabine for the treatment of metastatic breast or colon cancer and 10 oncology prescribers were interviewed to evaluate the practice behavior of the prescriber and assess patients’ understanding of therapy adherence. The study aimed at obtaining the perspectives of both patients and the prescribing oncologists. The findings of this study show that patients did not deliberately ignore to take their medication, it shows poor adherence to treatment schedule, poor or failure to report adverse effects and toxicity was the most important finding. It also shows there is no standard of practice for the process of prescribing and educating the patients. Each prescriber selected the patients based on available treatment guidelines and individual experience. Problem Statement The use of oral chemotherapy is increasing as more new targeted therapy drugs are developed. Oncologists prescribe oral chemotherapy based on the disease, recommended guidelines and patients are selected based on the prescriber’s past experiences. The weight of the responsibility shifts to the patient and sometimes, prescribers...
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...and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal of this material without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2007, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2007-03-12 One Friday afternoon in September 2005, Dr. Nicholas Burns, a sole practitioner dentist from Busby, Ontario, was driving home from a continuing education course on gum disease. At the course, he had overheard two dentists discussing Waterlase®, the new dental laser that allowed dentists to perform dental treatments without anaesthesia. One of the two was purchasing this technology. Burns had seen an increasing number of journal articles about the laser in recent years. Although he had wondered whether he should acquire one, he had held off because his instincts told him that the laser might not be the magic wand many made it out to be. Furthermore, Burns was particular about the type of technology he purchased for his practice. He wanted to ensure that it would be economically profitable or would provide him with a piece of technology...
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...wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2008, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2009-08-11 FALLING IN LOVE: THE HEALTH NUT Late in the afternoon on January 20, 2006, Chris Bregmann hung up the phone. Her account manager had just called to tell her that the bank was not going to extend any further credit to her small retail natural health products (NHP) store located in Grand Bend, Ontario. Bregmann and Vince Bury, her life and business partner, had owned The Health Nut since May 2003. While they had successfully grown sales, the business was not generating enough cash to sustain itself and provide the partners with adequate compensation. As a result, the business relied heavily on borrowing from the bank. ...
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...any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. This material is not covered under authorization from CanCopy or any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2009, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2009-04-22 It was January 2007. Pat Tulloch, senior director of marketing at SaskTel, was in her Regina, Saskatchewan, office reviewing product information for the LifeStateTM health monitoring system. SaskTel’s executive committee had recently approved a proposal to launch this system into the Canadian marketplace. In preparation for the proposed July 1, 2007, product launch, Tulloch had been given the task of developing a marketing plan, which she would have to present to the executive committee in two weeks’ time. To create this plan, Tulloch would need to quickly make some distribution and promotion decisions and conduct a financial analysis of the product’s potential profitability. CANADA’S HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM History Canada’s health-care system, introduced more than 40 years ago, provided universal, comprehensive coverage for medically necessary hospital and physician services. These services were provided on the...
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...all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and will create the transformation with the health care system necessary to contain costs (The Patient Protection). One of those health insurance reforms started on September 23, 2010, which will provide free preventive care. The PPACA will eliminate co-pays and deductibles for recommended preventive care, including preventive care for women, provide individuals with the information they need to make healthy decisions, improve education on disease prevention and public health, and invest in a national prevention and public health strategy (The Patient Protection). There are some exceptions to the law for grandfathered insurance plans. This preventive services provision applies only to people enrolled in job-related health plans or individual health insurance policies created after March 23, 2010 (Preventive Care). This law is supposed to improve quality healthcare and lower costs for patients. This paper will discuss what effect the new law may have on the United States healthcare system. What is Preventive Care? The definition of preventive care is "a pattern of nursing and medical care that focuses on disease prevention and health maintenance. It includes early diagnosis of disease, discovery and identification of people at risk of development of specific problems, counseling, and other necessary intervention to avert a health problem. Screening tests, health education, and immunization...
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...North America Equity Research 06 January 2014 2014 Global Biotech Outlook Differentiated Growth, Advancing Pipelines Should Drive Outperformance; Conf Call at 11am ET Today The biotech sector had a stellar 2013 (NBI: +65%; S&P: +29%) driven by strong demand for the sector’s key products, many positive phase 3 studies and a wave of successful IPOs. Looking to 2014, we think the fundamental backdrop is very similar with 1) beatable revenue growth expectations (2014e: +16% vs. 2012/2013: +12%) including several high-profile drug launches, 2) many pivotal studies set to read out and 3) a stable/favorable regulatory and reimbursement environment. Notably, these factors should continue to make biotech attractive to generalist investors, who played a major role in the 2013 outperformance. Our bias is to stick with large caps as well as mid-caps with approved products; revenue/EPS/cash flow forecasts for 2015 and beyond look broadly beatable, in our view. In contrast, we suspect that “pure pipeline” or tech platform small caps could be more volatile in 2014. We continue to believe that the biotech industry is in the early innings of an innovation cycle with many labelexpansion opportunities and novel agents in phase 2 or 3 trials that are largely unaccounted for in Street models. Hence, we are bullish on the group for 2014. Please join us for a call today at 11am ET to discuss our sector outlook/favorite names (US dial-in: 888-889-1309; OUS: 773-756-0161; Passcode: BIOTECH). Large-cap...
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...Biosensors and Bioelectronics 25 (2009) 661–667 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Biosensors and Bioelectronics journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/bios Review Detection of microorganisms using biosensors—A smarter way towards detection techniques Madhura Nayak 1 , Akhil Kotian 1 , Sandhya Marathe 1 , Dipshikha Chakravortty ∗ Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Biosafety Laboratories, Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 560012, India a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Along with useful microorganisms, there are some that cause potential damage to the animals and plants. Detection and identification of these harmful organisms in a cost and time effective way is a challenge for the researchers. The future of detection methods for microorganisms shall be guided by biosensor, which has already contributed enormously in sensing and detection technology. Here, we aim to review the use of various biosensors, developed by integrating the biological and physicochemical/mechanical properties (of tranducers), which can have enormous implication in healthcare, food, agriculture and biodefence. We have also highlighted the ways to improve the functioning of the biosensor. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Article history: Received 8 July 2009 Received in revised form 22 August 2009 Accepted 25 August 2009 Available online 31 August 2009 Keywords: Biosensors Microorganisms Biodefence...
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...wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2008, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2008-02-26 In a hangar near Calgary International Airport, three sleek red BK117 helicopters sat waiting to be dispatched to accident sites in southern Alberta. In an adjoining building overlooking a landing strip, dispatch staff quietly monitored multiple screens at a dozen workstations in the Emergency Link Centre. In the pilots’ lounge and surrounding offices, helicopter pilots, nurses and paramedics were on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A myriad of other professionals, including experts in clinical operations, aviation, engineering, communications, disaster preparedness and base operations, to name only a few, comprised...
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...wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2008, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2008-02-26 In a hangar near Calgary International Airport, three sleek red BK117 helicopters sat waiting to be dispatched to accident sites in southern Alberta. In an adjoining building overlooking a landing strip, dispatch staff quietly monitored multiple screens at a dozen workstations in the Emergency Link Centre. In the pilots’ lounge and surrounding offices, helicopter pilots, nurses and paramedics were on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A myriad of other professionals, including experts in clinical operations, aviation, engineering, communications, disaster preparedness and base operations, to name only a few, comprised...
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...Huff wrote this case solely to provide material for class discussion. The authors do not intend to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a managerial situation. The authors may have disguised certain names and other identifying information to protect confidentiality. Ivey Management Services prohibits any form of reproduction, storage or transmittal without its written permission. Reproduction of this material is not covered under authorization by any reproduction rights organization. To order copies or request permission to reproduce materials, contact Ivey Publishing, Ivey Management Services, c/o Richard Ivey School of Business, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, N6A 3K7; phone (519) 661-3208; fax (519) 661-3882; e-mail cases@ivey.uwo.ca. Copyright © 2008, Ivey Management Services Version: (A) 2008-02-26 In a hangar near Calgary International Airport, three sleek red BK117 helicopters sat waiting to be dispatched to accident sites in southern Alberta. In an adjoining building overlooking a landing strip, dispatch staff quietly monitored multiple screens at a dozen workstations in the Emergency Link Centre. In the pilots’ lounge and surrounding offices, helicopter pilots, nurses and paramedics were on standby 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A myriad of other professionals, including experts in clinical operations, aviation, engineering, communications, disaster preparedness and base operations, to name only a few, comprised the...
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...Introduction For offenders reentering the community the transition can be very difficult. Offenders face hardships in securing employment and housing to receiving adequate treatment for mental and physical illnesses and substance abuse. The number of offenders reentering society from prison and jail is steadily increasing yearly. States are diligently working to identify methods to help offenders successfully reintegrate into society. Some initiatives available in Harris County, TX include prison education programs, life and job skills training and counseling services. This paper focuses on the educational opportunities available for offenders in Harris County, TX. The education opportunities are structured to assist offenders with incarceration related factors and attempts to help offenders with successful reintegration with family, the community and society as a whole. I will discuss several educational initiatives available to offenders and how these initiatives correlate to our text. Harris County, TX . On March 12, 2004 the CEA unanimously voted to grant accreditation to Harris County Sheriff’s Office Inmate Education Program. The Harris County Sheriff’s Office became the first county jail in the U.S. to receive the Correctional Education Association (CEA) accreditation for its Inmate Education Program (Albers, 2006:15). This recognition sets Harris County Sheriff’s Office to a high standard to be compared with. The educational facility is located on Crites Street...
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...ceration Incarceration and Religiosity in a Male Inmate Population Robert Ellery Loomis ADMJ 240W Section 003 Fall 2006 Robert Ellery Loomis ADMJ 240 W Section 003 Incarceration and Religiosity in a Male Inmate Population John Locke said that "good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided." The need for removal of persons who commit acts against society as a whole has been a part of human nature. However, is it possible to reintroduce these people back into society and have them be an active and appropriate member of society? I have chosen to examine whether or not religious affiliations while incarcerated assist in the rehabilitation and lack of re-offense upon release. This area deserves additional research, after this study, due to the fact that about 5.6 million, about one out of every thirty-seven people are incarcerated in the United States (NCIS). If researchers can find a more effective way to reduce the level of recidivism; this in turn will decrease the number of incarcerated United States citizens and allow the governmental appropriation to be allocated to other needs. The following study, Religiousness and Post-Release Community Adjustment in the United States, 1990-1998, will be used to determine these three hypotheses: (1) that men...
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...How to control complication of type 2 Diabetes Palakkumar Patel Monroe College Abstract This paper is presenting about how to control complication of type 2 diabetes. In the USA 90% of diabetes patients suffering from type 2 diabetes. In every year lots of patients going to die due to type 2 diabetes complication. In previous studies review is presenting about due to type 2 diabetes so many complications are occurring in different part of the body and some study is presenting about due to health education we can reduce the problem in community. By doing heath education, continues health check up and doing some personal health counseling about diet and personal lifestyles.in school health education also effect on child on diet personal life styles. How to control complication of type 2 Diabetes Chapter 1: Introduction Diabetes is a leading cause of adult-onset blindness, kidney failure, and non traumatic limb amputations; significantly higher risk for coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, and stroke, and they have a hypertension, dyslipidemia, and obesity; Diabetes is a the seventh leading cause of death in the United States (1). USA is expending $245 billion annually for health care expenditures and productivity losses and is a leading driver of growing Medicare expenditures for controlling glucose levels, blood pressure (BP), and lipid levels and avoiding tobacco, singularly or in combination, reduce the incidence of costly and disabling micro- and...
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...increase costs to the healthcare system”[13] & taxpayer. If this can be significantly reduced, it has to be better for the women, their families & society. Each year in NZ there are >2800 women diagnosed with Breast Cancer, with the number increasing each year [14]. “PMPS is defined as a chronic pain. It is considered a neuropathic condition which arises after surgery for breast cancer PMPS is different from other painful syndromes as it is typically localised to the anterior or lateral region of the thorax, auxiliary&/or medial upper arm, causing burning pain, shooting pain, pressure sensation or numbness”.[15-20]. This report analysed over 45 different journal articles that looked at the incidence of PMPS & treatment options [1,2,4-15,21-51]. The use of Gabapentin & Venlafaxine showed statistically significant data to warrant further consideration [1,2,8,11,1327,31,32,34,39,40,46,47,50,51] Gabapentin, initially used to treat seizure disorders[22,24,26] now it is commonly used to treat neuropathic pain [35,41] & has opioid sparing properties which makes it ideal in the postoperative setting39,52]. Venlafaxine, a serotonin...
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