...Health Campaign: Breastfeeding Kona Necklen HCS 535 September 16, 2013 Instructor: Qiana Amos Health Campaign: Breastfeeding Breastfeeding, a topic not so popular twenty years ago, is becoming the subject of today’s healthy lifestyle. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2013), 69.2% of adults over the age of 20 are overweight including obesity from 2009 to 2010. Eighteen percent of children ages six to 19 years are obese as well and has become a major health concern (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). Chronic diseases are also an issue with one in two adults having at least one chronic health condition (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2013). To reduce the obesity rates and chronic diseases for the future generation, promoting a healthy lifestyle from childhood years is highly recommended. This report reviews the importance of breastfeeding, Minnesota’s health themes for 2020, the different agencies and surveillance systems involved in addressing these issues, and the type of data used. Health Issue: Breastfeeding Healthy Minnesota 2020 The health assessment for Minnesota recognizes a healthy start early in life. The themes for Healthy Minnesota 2020 to promote health are: * “Capitalize on the opportunity to influence health in early childhood” (MDH, 2012, p.11) * “Assure that the opportunity to be healthy is available everywhere and for everyone” (MDH, 2012, p. 11) * “Strengthen communities...
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...the condom encourages sex outside marriage. In my opinion, I personally think that the Ministry of Health should not organize a “Use Condom” campaign. This is because the priority and the main concern should be focused more on the practical and efficient ways in how to prevent HIV and AIDS instead of encourage people to use condoms which don’t seem enough to stop the spread of AIDS. Although condom can help in preventing sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV and AIDS, but somehow it provides less protection against certain STD especially involved skin to skin contact, which including human papillomavirus or known as HPV like genital warts, syphilis and genital herpes. Using condom during sexual intercourse will reduce the risk of HIV and AIDS infection, but it doesn’t provide 100% protection against the diseases infection. There are still some rare cases in which some people were infected with HIV although they were using condom during sexual activities. The objective of the “Use Condom” campaign seem like only focus on the use of condoms which sending the wrong message that it’s fine to do any illicit sexual activities as long as using condom and will not get infected with these diseases. Not only that, there are still many ways to get infected with HIV and AIDS other than sexual activities. HIV and AIDS can get transmitted through the sharing of needles, breastfeeding from the mother who is HIV-infected, sharing syringes or other equipment used for drugs injection and...
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...importance of health education for children in early childhood and school settings Introduction Nutrition education in Australian schools is becoming a more prevalent issue than in the past due to the increasing obesity rate. Childhood obesity has accelerated rapidly into one of the most significant health problems as well as being a prominent concern for early childhood professions. Obesity is the largest nutritional problem among Australian children where childhood obesity has been estimated to be rising to the extent of 1% per year. If we take these statistics and skip forward to 2025 it translates to 50% of Australia’s young people will be overweight. Historically the family has been a child’s main source of education in regards to health through a combination of direct and indirect instruction, the child then models this behaviour. Teachers must now also be the facilitators of children’s health education to build on what children are learning from their family, the more knowledge they gain in regards to what keeps them healthy and why, the better prepared they will be for a healthy adult life. A correlation between Australian children’s health and wellbeing, and their educational prospects has been identified. (Mathews 2004) Educators have the opportunity through curriculum to develop strategies to support health and nutritional education in line with best practice by adhering to the Health Promoting Schools model There is hope that improved health education for...
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...1 Community Health (C228) Task 1 Megan Smith Student # 000473853 October 10, 2015 Community Health Task 1 2 Communities are often what shape and instill a sense of belonging for people. One such community is Northridge, which is a neighborhood located in the San Fernando Valley and is part of Los Angeles County. According to available data, there are 52,776 residents in Northridge, and diversity is a key element. A snapshot of Northridge can be seen as 49.5% whites, hispanics/latinos 50.8%, Asians 14.5%, African Americans 5.4% and others 4.6%. Along those lines, 7.6% are nonEnglish speaking and a large percentage of these residents speak languages other than English in the home. Families (married with children) make up 24.1% of households with single parents accounting for 11.8% of the residents (Lacounty.gov). Summary of Tools Population Economic Status Assessment. The median household income for Northridge in 2013 was $81,511, which is relatively high compared to the median income for California which is $61,632 (Northridge Neighborhood). While the median income is high, one source of data states 20% one in five residents of Los Angeles County receive public assistance (L.A. Times. 20% in Los Angeles County Receive Public Aid). While specific data could not be obtained for Northridge, in Los Angeles County (2011 Census) the birthrate was 130,312 and the death rate came in at 57,988, which means Los Angeles County as whole and its ...
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...Policies and strategies to improve nutritional status[7] Ministry of Health and Population strategies Health strategies In order to improve the health status of the Egyptian population, MOHP has developed several strategies, including the following: * Preventive care system: the specific areas of intervention are immunization, quarantine measures, safe water supply, food hygiene, public cleanliness, environmental hygiene and infestation control. * Primary health care: through which medical services are provided to the general population and to vulnerable groups (pregnant and lactating mothers and children under five years of age). * Curative care services: where sick people find medical treatment. Nutrition strategies Before 1992, ad hoc programmes addressed the problem of malnutrition. Following the International Conference on Nutrition (ICN), held in Rome in December 1992 and sponsored by FAO and WHO, nutrition programmes in Egypt have been enhanced. Egypt presented a country paper at the conference and took part in post-ICN condensed nutrition activities. A ministerial decree of 1994 formulated a high-level inter-ministerial committee representing the ministries of agriculture, health, planning, information, supply, education and academia. The outcome was the development of the Egyptian National Strategy for Nutrition, which has nine main policy areas. Each policy area includes a problem statement, a goal, measurable objectives, actions, authorities responsible for...
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...Childhood Obesity Epidemic How the Health Care Reform Law Will Help Prevent and Reduce Obesity Ellen-Marie Whelan, Lesley Russell, and Sonia Sekhar May 2010 w w w.americanprogress.org Confronting America’s Childhood Obesity Epidemic How the Health Care Reform Law Will Help Prevent and Reduce Obesity Ellen-Marie Whelan, Lesley Russell, and Sonia Sekhar May 2010 Contents 1 Fast Facts on Childhood Obesity 3 Introduction and summary 6 Provisions included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that address childhood obesity 6 Childhood Obesity Demonstration Project 7 Nutrition labeling 7 Community Transformation Grants 9 Broader measures in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to tackle childhood obesity 9 Prevention and public health 15 Primary care and coordination 18 Community-based Care 20 Maternal and child health 22 Research: Doing what works in obesity prevention 23 Data provisions that will help with tracking and providing improved outcomes to measure obesity prevention 25 What else is needed? 27 Beyond health care 29 Conclusion 30 Appendix: The White House Childhood Obesity Initiative 32 Endnotes 34 About the authors Fast Facts on Childhood Obesity Our nation’s children today are on track to have a lower life expectancy than their parents The obesity epidemic poses serious health problems for children including cardiovascular disease, mental health problems, bone and joint disorders...
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...Change4Life: Government initiative to reduce Childhood Obesity in England Background Change4Life, a public health program in England, effective since January of 2009 and organized by the Department of Health is the country’s first national social marketing campaign to reduce obesity (NHS, 2009, pp. 13). More specifically aimed at families with children under twelve years old, the initiative seeks to reduce childhood obesity and foster healthy and happy children, who in turn grown into happy and healthy adults. In recent years, a rise in obesity numbers and a decrease in physical activity led the Change4Life campaign to challenge the behaviors of English families that lead to excess weight gain (Change4Life, 2009, pp.1). In hoping to eliminate obesity from the earliest stages of life, Change4Life works to not only adjust citizen’s weight, but their overall health and well-being through education and easily-accessible information. In essence, this campaign aims to encourage people to lead overall healthier lives, using the slogan “eat well, move more, live longer,” which is a message strong enough to have gained over a million individuals committing to the program since its inception over three years ago (NHS, 2012, pp.1). Aims and Objectives As mentioned previously, the Change4Life policy was aimed at parents and children to foster healthy living from childhood all the way into adulthood. Change4Life’s aim is generally to inspire a “broad collection of people,” including...
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...ATTENDING THE PREVENTION OF MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV (PMTCT) PROGRAMME AT BULAWAYO CITY CLINICS, ZIMBABWE. by MGCINI SIBANDA Submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of MASTERS OF ARTS in the subject SOCIAL BEHAVIOR STUDIES IN HIV/AIDS at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA SUPERVISOR: DR GE DU PLESSIS JOINT SUPERVISOR: MR L ROETS SEPTEMBER 2008 DEDICATION This is dedicated to all women living with HIV, in the sincerest hope that this study will make a small contribution to programme development and implementation. I also wish to dedicate this to my family: Patience, Babongile and Bongiwe, with love. i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This study would not have been possible without the support, commitment and encouragement of a large number of people in a wide range of capacities. Unfortunately, it is not possible to acknowledge by name all the people who contributed in some way to the study. Above all l appreciate the contribution of all the pregnant women who participated in the study, who volunteered their time and valuable information. Particular thanks are due to my supervisor Gretchen du Plessis for her untiring effort and thorough guidance throughout the study. A special word of thanks goes to the Bulawayo Medical Director’s office and the staff at the city clinics for allowing me to carry out the study. I am also grateful to the research assistants who assisted in collecting data. ii DECLARATION I declare...
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...Obesity Institution Date Analyze with substantial details the pathophysiology of Obesity Obesity is a condition whereby there is excess Accumulation of body fat. Obesity is medically defined in terms of body mass index (BMI). The BMI is the arithmetical way of coming up with the correct weight range as far as the height of an individual is concerned. Obesity is indicated when a body mass index exceeds 30kg/m2. When BMI increases it is further classified as severe, super obesity and morbid. (Campos, P. F. 2004). Obesity is a lifestyle disease which is spreading swiftly universally. Every Individuals of all age, gender and ethnicity are affected by this disease. Women are affected more than the men. The tendency to gain weight increases with the growing age. However, in the recent years alarming trend of childhood obesity has been noticed. Obesity renders an individual vulnerable to various other diseases like, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, sleep apnoea etc. The main cause for Obesity is when the intake of the calories exceed the dissipated calories. In simple terms, when one tends to eat more than his body requirement the extra fat start depositing in the body tissues giving rise to obesity. Junk food is the main cause. Children enjoy unhealthy food items and hence are getting more affected by the rising incidences of obesity. The lack of physical activity is the other common cause for obesity. For proper digestion of the consumed food, physical...
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...of the health visitors role. However, no formal, evidence based weaning intervention is currently being promoted to health visitors and advice continues to be communicated at the discretion of individual practitioners. Very little research exists on this topic, much emphasis has been placed on encouraging breast feeding as the main focus infant nutrition literature. Yet childhood obesity is on the rise and establishing healthy eating habits as a baby could pave the way for healthy eating habits later in life. This paper looks at the ways professionals communicate general messages about weaning and attempts to provide some clarity and guidance for health visitors about a humanistic intervention to educate parents about the benefits of waiting till six months, rather than using ‘scare tactics’ as to what could happen if they wean earlier. It is hoped that not only will this paper provide guidance about best practice, it will also highlight the importance of the subject and the pressing need for urgent research on the specific topic of delivering weaning advice. Table of Contents Page Abstract 1 Table of Contents 2 Section 1 : Introduction Aim 3 Objectives 3 Background 4 Section 2 : Literature Review Parameters for literature search 10 Consumer perception of the health visitor 11 Communicating public health messages 13 Specific health promotion...
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...Banta sa kinabukasan: Kalusugan ng kasanggulan at kabataan sa Lungsod Maynila Iniharap ni Antonio Domingo R. Reario III Komunikasyon II TFG2 Kay Rosemarie Roque (Instruktor) 8 Hunyo 2015 Unibersidad ng Pilipinas-Manila Kalye Padre Faura, Ermita, Manila Banta sa kinabukasan: Kalusugan ng kasanggulan at kabataan sa Lungsod Maynila Ang malnutrisyon Ang malnutrisyon ay isang seryosong problemang pampublikong kalusugang naka-ugnay sa malaking pagtaas ng panganib na mamatay at magkasakit (Blossner & de Onis, 2005). Karagdaran pa rito, ito ay nakaaapekto na sa daang at milyong buntis na ina at bata (Müller & Krawinkel, 2005). Layunin ng pananaliksik na itong malaman ang estado ng malnutrisyon ng mga batang 0-71 buwang gulang sa Lungsod Maynila. Maliban pa rito, susuriin ng papel na ito ang mga posibleng paliwanag, dahilan, at solusyon sa problemang tinatalakay. Ang pananaliksik na ito ay makatutulong sa lahat ng mga magulang at balak maging magulang. Ang nutrisyon ay may tatak na impluwensiya sa paglaki, lalo na sa mga unang taon ng buhay (Koletzko, 2008). Ibigsabihin nito ay makikita sa pagtanda ng isang tao kung naging tama, labis, o kulang ang nutrisyong nakuha nito noong siya ay bata pa lamang. Ayon kay Cunningham (n.d.), nangyayari ang malnutrisyon kapag ang kinakain ng isang tao ay hindi akma sa kailangan nitong mga nutrient upang mapanatiling malusog ang katawan. Nangyayari ang pagiging kulang sa nutrisyon kung ang kinakain ng isang tao ay kulang...
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...were not of public health standard especially after the labour unrest. To understand the public health crisis that existed at that time it is important to have an idea of what public health means. Public health as defined by Winslow (1920) “is the science and art of preventing, prolonging life and organized community efforts for sanitation of the environment, control of communicable infections, education of the individual in personal hygiene, organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to realize his birth right of health and longevity”(p.5). Considering this definition and the conditions of the British Caribbean territories one could conclude that there were very little to no public health existence in the time of the 1930’s. Consequently, the British Government appointed the Moyne Commission on August 3rd 1938 to investigate and make recommendations on the social and economic conditions of its territories and to file a report. The Moyne Report ended on February 20th 1939 and published fully in 1945 (Green, 2014). This project, therefore, will give a brief biography of Lord Moyne, discuss the factors that led to the establishment of the Commission, state the implementations of the recommendations; the implications to public health and give an overview...
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...covered in Ch 17) Qualifications/education of a registered dietitian Credible sources of nutrition information Warning signs of quacky nutrition products Ch 2 Planning Healthful diet Describe the principles of diet planning Know how to calculate nutrient density of food Describe the Exchange List Describe the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 Recommendation for intake of whole-grains Definitions of the Dietary Reference Intakes Information included on a food label Nutrient fortification vs. enrichment of food Know how to calculated % total kcals from fat, carb, protein: e.g., for a 2000-kcal diet with 25% kcals from fat, how many grams fat are consumed? Types of food label health claims allowed by FDA Vegetarian diets – health benefits; nutrients of concern Ch 17 Nutrition care & assessment Calculation of BMI Major responsibilities for patient nutrition care assumed by MD, RD, RN Define/describe Medical Nutrition Therapy Biochemical indicators of nutrition status Methods of food intake assessment Understand “functional assessment” Ch 14 Pregnancy, Lactation Dietary Guidelines 2010 specific to women capable of becoming pregnant and pregnant women Define, describe pica Describe the concept of critical periods in...
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...HEALTH RESEARCH AGENDA SETTING IN REGION 2 Center for Health Development for Cagayan Valley (CHD-CV) Department of Science and Technology (DOST) National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) FOREWORD The current thrust of the Department Of Health conceptualized by no less than the Hon. Secretary Himself, Dr. Francisco T. Duque, III, coined as FOURmulaONE aims to “undertake critical reforms with SPEED, PRECISION and EFFECTIVE COORDINATION directed at improving the efficiency, effectiveness and equity of the Philippine Health System in a manner that is felt and appreciated by the Filipinos, especially the poor”. Now, more than ever, the health of the Filipino people should not be the sole responsibility of DOH through CHD-CV (as initial chair of the Regional R&D Coordinating Council of the consortium) rather the unified efforts of allied agencies/institutions, NGOs and most importantly, the individual himself. Unfortunately, many areas in the country, Region 02 included, have little or no access to information that affect the environment and people’s health. As a consequence, people live their lives without the benefit of some precautions that they may observe in order to safeguard their well-being. It is in this light that through the stewardship of PCHRD, through its Executive Director Jaime C. Montoya and DOST Regional office through Dir. Rustico B. Santos, DOHCHD-CV through Dir. Purita S. Danga and her Asst. Dir.,Dr. Tita N. Callueng; NEDA. Dir Milagros Rimando;...
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...Introduction Dr. C.E. Winslow defines Public Health as the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, promoting health and efficiency through organized community effort for the sanitation of the environment, control of communicable diseases, the education of individuals in personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing services for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery to ensure everyone a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health, so organizing these benefits as to enable every citizen to realize his birthright of health and longevity. Public health nursing is defined by the World Health Organization Expert Committee of Nursing as a special field of nursing that combines the skills of nursing, public health and some phases of social assistance and functions as part of the total public health programme for the promotion of health, the improvement of the conditions in the social and physical environment, rehabilitation of illness and disability. Community diagnosis is the process of identification of the various factors that affect the health of an individual in the community and to detect certain problems that a community has. As a community it involves all the individuals that are living in it. Assessment of these factors is done by the Public Health Nurse. It is not an easy task for it requires thorough investigation by surveying families present in the community...
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