...Community Assessment and Analysis of the Hispanic Population in Dallas Introduction Most of Texas’ phenomenal growth over the last decade followed the route of Interstate 35 from the Rio Grande Valley to San Antonio, Austin and Dallas-Fort Worth, a broad swath that included seven of the ten fastest-growing counties in the state. And much of that growth was fueled by the fast-growing Hispanic population. Hispanics account for two-thirds of Texas' growth over the past decade and now make up 38 percent of the state's total population, according to new local U.S. Census figures. And forty-two percentage of the general population in Dallas is Hispanic. "As Census figures show, Texas is becoming more ethnically and racially diverse. Without the tremendous growth of the Hispanic community, Texas would have had very little growth," said Sen. Many Hispanic-Americans have many common heritage traits, but they also have many differences depending on their country of origin. For example, Mexican Americans make up the largest Hispanic subgroup with over 350,000 of them residing in Dallas which contributes to this being the ninth most populous city in America and the third most populous city in the state of Texas. In addition, the Dallas area economy is the sixth largest in the United States. Geopolitical features Dallas is located in north Texas, and a major city in the American South, Dallas is the main core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United...
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...Substance Abuse in Adolescents Seana Benham Grand Canyon University Nursing 427 Concepts in Community and Public Health November5, 2015 Prevalence of substance abuse among youth In 2013, the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey revealed than an estimated 16.6 percent of Colorado high school youth reported binge drinking, 10.7 percent reported cigarette smoking, and 19.7 percent reported marijuana use in the 30 days prior to the survey. As many as 13.6 percent abused prescription drugs at some point in their lives. Of note, the 2013 prevalence of Colorado high school youth ever having used other illicit drugs ranged between 2.7 percent for heroin and 7.3 percent for inhalants. Methamphetamine use was reported as 3.2 percent; cocaine, 5.8 percent; and Ecstasy, 6.7 percent. (Maternal and Child Health Issue Brief, 2014). According to Maternal Health and Child Health issue brief (2014), the prevalence of binge drinking, cigarette smoking, and marijuana use are substantially lower among middle school youth compared to high school youth. What contributes to substance abuse among youth? Substance abuse among youth is a complex issue with many potentially contributing factors that might include an individual’s peer influence, an individual’s biology, family and peer influence, and the social context in which use occurs (Newcomb; M et al. 2009). Family and peer influences can be influential towards substance use or abuse; familial risk factors that influence substance abuse include...
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...Introduction Community or public health nursing is a concept intended to shift the focus of the traditional nurse role to a global scope. Nursing practice is based in the art and science of identifying individual patient responses to illness and decreasing patient suffering when possible. Public health nursing expands beyond the individual to explore causative health related factors both negative and positive within the community, while developing processes to alleviate suffering while promoting wellness. Group Definition of Community/Public Health Based on the definition offered by Radzyminski (2007), this group collectively redefines community or public health nursing as a collaborative community based, socially responsible and resource conscientious approach to the delivery of wellness within a specific population by a Registered Nurse. The Texas Department of Health’s (April 12, 2011) echoes this concept in their vision statement embracing illness prevention and public health promotion. The focus on the greater-good of the population, as described by Sidorov and Romney (2011, p. 17), does not discount the individual. Indeed, public health promotion and protection may actually advance patient self-care. With a strong community health system, the individual is better able to work within that system to improve their own health status, self-intervene early with many a health exacerbation, and rely on efficient and effective healthcare options (Sidorov & Romney...
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...learning” (pg. 43). Bloom’s Taxonomy is commonly utilized and facilitates the acquisition of new skills through use of sight, emotion, and action pathways (Benner, Sutphen, Leonard, & Day, 2010). Community Health Course Objectives: At the end of this course, the student will be able to: 1. Identify the role of the nurse in health promotion, teaching, and disease prevention and effective health planning and community assessment concepts. Analysis – This objective requires students to recognize and understand the roles community health nurses play in health promotion and community health agencies. 2. Implement community health concepts through a practicum at a community health agency. Application - Students will have the opportunity to apply concept learned in the classroom to community health situations experienced at a community health agency. 3. Examine basic epidemiological, surveillance, and environmental health concepts as related to community health. Analysis – By exploring and articulating epidemiological, surveillance and environmental health concepts, the student will be able to identify the causal relationship of the components. 4. Formulate strategies that will influence public policy related to community health. Synthesis - Devising methodologies that can be implemented to...
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... 2. Definition of concepts 3 3. Approaches 4 1. Prevention and health promotion 4 2. Empowerment and citizen participation 5 4. Conclusion 6 5. List of references 7 1. Introduction This assignment is about critically comparing and contrasting the community psychology and public health approaches to social problems. Firstly I will define the concepts involved, secondly I will briefly discuss historical context of both community psychology and public health and lastly I will discuss approaches. . The comparison will be based upon prevention and health promotion, empowerment, individual wellness and citizen participation 2. Definition of concepts Community psychology is all about how individuals relate to the society in which they live. Public health on the other hand is defined as being concerned with preventing disease and distress. Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals. On the other hand, community psychology is fundamentally concerned with the relationship between social systems and individual well-being in the community context. Community psychology aims to promote human welfare. Community psychology focuses on economic...
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...PUBLIC HEALTH COMPETENCIES A. BIOSTATISTICS Biostatistics is the development and application of statistical reasoning and methods in addressing, analyzing and solving problems in public health; health care; and biomedical, clinical and populationbased research. Competencies: Upon graduation a student with an MPH should be able to… A. 1. Describe the roles biostatistics serves in the discipline of public health. A. 2. Describe basic concepts of probability, random variation and commonly used statistical probability distributions. A. 3. Describe preferred methodological alternatives to commonly used statistical methods when assumptions are not met. A. 4. Distinguish among the different measurement scales and the implications for selection of statistical methods to be used based on these distinctions. A. 5. Apply descriptive techniques commonly used to summarize public health data. A. 6. Apply common statistical methods for inference. A. 7. Apply descriptive and inferential methodologies according to the type of study design for answering a particular research question. A. 8. Apply basic informatics techniques with vital statistics and public health records in the description of public health characteristics and in public health research and evaluation. A. 9. Interpret results of statistical analyses found in public health studies. A. 10. Develop written and oral presentations based on statistical analyses for both public health professionals and educated lay audiences. B. COMMUNITY...
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...Table of contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………3 History and core concepts……………………………………………………………………...3 Similarities and differences…………………………………………………………………….5 Strengths and weaknesses…………………………………………………………………….6 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….6 Reference list…………………………………………………………………………………….7 3 Critically compare and contrast community psychology with the public health approach Introduction In this essay, I will critically compare and contrast community psychology and the public health model in terms of their origins, core concepts, strengths and pitfalls of each approach, similarities and differences and in what way these approaches do or do not supplement one another. Community Psychology according to The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology is defined as “a branch of applied psychology that focuses on person-environment interactions usually at the level of the community and is aimed at improving the general quality of life within a community” (Matsumoto, 2009). The Public Health model also consists of efforts to improve the health of communities and according to The Acheson Report, is defined as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organised efforts of society” (Department of health, 1998). History and core concepts Community psychology in South Africa followed a very close development likened to the American development and gained its momentum at a time where social disorder was present...
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...Community Conceptual Model Leonie Taylor-Brown, Kellie Durner, Diane Nims, Jessica O’ Hara NUR/544 August 25, 2014 Amy Weaver FNP Community Conceptual Model Milio's framework for prevention was created as a complement to health belief model (HBM). HBM is based on individuals avoiding disease, but has limitations, such as placing the burden of action on the patient (Nies and McEwen, 2011). While Milio recognized these limitations, she continued the development of her framework for prevention. She focused on opportunities for nurses to make changes at the population level. Milio also noted that health care deficits resulted in an imbalance between health needs and health resources, and therefore believed that health promoting resources should be readily available and at a low cost. No matter what a person’s background is, they will choose options that are the simplest and less resistant. If the simplest means were choosing health-damaging options, individuals will present increased risk for poor health. It is up to the policies created by the government, federal or local, and organization to provide the education and resources for individuals. Based on Milios framework of prevention, these resources should be cost efficient and easily learned. According to Milio (1976) "The range of options available to them, and the ease with which they may choose certain ones over others is typically set by organizations public and private, formal and informal" (p...
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...COMMUNITY GARDENS: GOOD REGIONAL INVESTMENT Daniel P. Olivas Webster University Abstract The concept of gathering people together in an outdoor space in order to collectively work towards the common goal of planting and harvesting produce can be traced in the US to the late 19th century. Community gardens still exist in the US today with the same goal as before, but the objectives that are witnessed in contemporary community gardens have grown to include goals such as training youth in agriculture and nutrition to serving as an important part of people’s health and wellness lifestyles. Several reasons will be listed in this paper that explain the growing and renewed popularity of community gardens which further include economic and medical benefits, as well as individual contribution to the community. This movement in community garden growth is reflected as most movements are in the US’ current political environment. Our current presidential administration sees the First Lady, Michelle Obama, actively promoting health consciousness in particular among youth while making a strong case on the benefits to be reaped from community gardens. On a different note, our recent national economic environment makes a reasonable argument for supporting cost-saving, and even income-generating, ideas such as community gardening. Introduction El Paso County’s most recent addition to its collective gardening community was a unveiled less than a year ago. The...
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...the term health in all policies to refer to the actions to incorporate health into policies. (Wikipedia) 3. CONCEPT – 3. MONITORING AND EVALUATION: Monitoring and evaluation is a systematic collection, analysis and reporting of information about public health activities. It determines programs efficiency and establishes standard of performance at the activity level. Proper monitoring and evaluation helps to identify the strong and weak points of programme operations and discrepancies. Basis for program accountability is formed and program effectiveness is determined. 3.1 Personal Context: Personally, I feel that the importance of monitoring and evaluation cannot be over emphasized. Every public health intervention or health education intervention...
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...practice nursing. According to Joel (2009), there are currently four major groups of APNs: certified registered nurse anesthetist, certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners. APN focus on critical thinking, educating the public, diagnosing and treating illnesses, and prescribing medications to name a few. This paper will discuss the future of the nurse practitioner and how I, as a future adult-gerontology primary care nurse practitioner, will advocate for my patient population. Philosophy and Beliefs of Nurse Practitioners Due to the fact that nurse practitioner is a branch of advanced practice nursing, the two professions often share many of the same philosophic beliefs. The overall philosophy of both professions is centered on four key concepts of person, society, health and nursing; whereas, the core philosophy for nurse practitioners is that of individualized care where focus is on patients’ conditions, as well as, the effects of illness on the lives of the patients and their families (Health Communities, 2001). The beliefs of NPs are that prevention, wellness, and patient education are priority (Health Communities, 2001). All of these concepts especially those of person, society, health and nursing aid in defining the role of NPs, as well as, APNs. Like any other medical profession nurse practitioners take...
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...student applies the concept to the current context of his personal life, social life or to the current job he/she is doing. The Contextual project work enables a student to learn by connecting to the Real world. This Contextual Project work learning demonstrates the activities in the real life to which the students can relate to the incorporating not only content, the what, of learning but the reasons why that learning is important. Contextual learning, then, engages students in meaningful, interactive, and collaborative activities that support them in becoming self-regulated learners. The over-all purpose is to nurture and encourage in them high level of self-motivation and autonomy, building on academic skills developed by the students. This activity can be undertaken by individual students or in small groups for the purpose of encouraging cooperation and team cohesion. It is always desirable to have such project undertaken in small groups...
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...Developing an Advocacy Campaign for Diabetes Emmanuel Besong Walden University Policy & Advocacy for Population Health Nursing 6050N DR. Trudy Tappan March 27, 2016 Introduction Population health is defined as the health outcomes and its distribution in a community. Population health includes policies and interventions that affect health outcomes. Diabetes is a population health issue. Data is used to trend diabetes outcome of the diabetic population (healthcatalyst.com, 2013). According to CDC (2014), 9.3% of the population of the United States of America live with diabetes. This percentage amount to 29.1 million people diagnosed or undiagnosed with diabetes. Each year approximately 200000 deaths occur in the United States of America alone. The disease is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States of America (CDC, 2014). National Data trend estimates that by the year 2050, 1 in every 3 American will have developed diabetes (CDC, 2014). The American Diabetes Association defines Diabetes mellitus as a metabolic disease caused by low insulin secretion or inaction of insulin resulting in hyperglycemia. Long term effect of diabetes mellitus results in failure of many organs, such as eyes, blood vessels, kidneys, nerves, heart disease, stroke, amputations of the legs and feet, and early death. Diabetes Mellitus can be classified type 1 and Type 2. Insulin dependent diabetes is called type 1 diabetes and it is caused by a lack of insulin due to the damage of beta cells...
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...UNISA Pyc4811 Assignment 1: Unique no: 805932 2016 2016 Write an essay in which you critically compare and contrast the community psychology and public health approaches to social problems. At first glance, there seems to be a fine line between community psychology and the public health approach, however on further examination it is more than semantics that separate these two principles. Both, community psychology and the public health approach, started as a result of the frustration of main stream psychology not being able to address broader social issues. The realisation that psychology needed to focus a great deal more on community and social change in order to address mental health and illness. Although community psychology and the public health approach seem to share the same intrinsic values, the focus of community psychology seems to be more aimed at the cultural and political aspect of social behaviour and outcomes, whereas the public health is focused more on health and prevention of diseases and self actualisation within the social context. “Whereas public health considers physical health and well-being as paramount to successful living and aims to reduce the individual's engagement in high-risk behaviour and dangerous environments, community psychology is more concerned with the social and political context of mental health” (S. Van Niekerk,2013) Treatment...
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...Mobile Rapid Clinic GH LTD 2011 The Ghana Community Responsive Integrated “Rapid Clinic” Network Creating Local Ownership and Rapid Access to Healthcare Services & Bringing Specialty Medical Services to Local Communities A Public-Private Self Sustainable Venture Presented by Dr. J. KwekuLaast MD, MPH Accra Ghana Mobile Rapid Clinic GH LTD 2011 The Ghana Community Responsive Integrated “Rapid Clinic” Network Creating Local Ownership and Rapid Access to Healthcare Services & Bringing Specialty Medical Services to Local Communities A Public-Private Self Sustainable Venture Presented by Dr. J. KwekuLaast MD, MPH Accra Ghana TABLE OF CONTENTS Concept Summary 5 Vision, Mission Corporate Objectives 6 Background 7 The Solution 8 The Model 8 Location and Branding 8 SWOT 9 Markets And Competitive Strategy 10 Pictures 12 The Ghana Community Responsive Integrated “Rapid Clinic” Network Presented By Email: klaastgh@gmail.com Concept Summary Despite large investments in public hospitals and polyclinics in many developing countries, and fledging health insurance programs, large numbers of the general public lack access to basic medical services even in the cities. In Ghana, the national health insurance scheme was established to reduce the disparity in access to health care. Although it has been successful in increasing the number of people who can...
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