...Health is “the ability of a system (a cell, organism, family, society) to respond adaptively to a wide variety of environmental challenges (physical, chemical, infectious, psychological, social)' (Brody and Sobel, 1980: 168-69). The relationship between health and psychology has become more focused in the 20th century. It has been considered as far back as ancient Greece, but has taken root heavily in the 20th century. Health and psychology has the meaning that our mind and bodies interact with each other. If we are overly stressed then we may likely see physical health effects such as higher blood pressure, increased heart rate, etc. When we keep a positive balance between our physical health and our mental health, then we are working on the close relationship of health and psychology. We can directly affect our health by our lifestyles. By this I mean if we choose to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, consume to much caffeine, or be overweight. Since these lifestyle choices affect us physically and mentally many workplaces offer wellness programs to help aide in the education of health and psychology. When an employer makes the choice to provide wellness programs for their employees both the employer and the employee benefits. The employer benefits if they provide medical insurance to the employee in the possibility of lowering their health insurance cost. The healthier lifestyle the employee lives the less cost in time loss from work, or possibilities for workplace injuries...
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...Psychology and Health Issues Psychology and Health Issues When the weight of an individual is greater than what’s considered to be healthy for their given height is exceeded, and then they are labeled as obese. The ranges of weight also have been able to show the increase and likelihood of other diseases and health care problems. “About one third of the United States adults are obese and approximately 17% of children and adolescents between ages two and 19 are obese” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). According to the center for disease control, “ in 2010 no states has a prevalence of obesity less than 20%, thirty six states has a prevalence of 25% or more, and twelve of the states had a prevalence of 30% or more” (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2010). Individuals can become obese by eating a large number of calories and not exercising enough to burn the calories off. Although diet and exercise plays a part in obesity there are also other factors such as age, gender, genetics, environment, physical activity, illness, and medication (WebMd, 2005-2011) that takes a part in obesity. As individuals begin to age their metabolizism slows down. Women sometimes tend to be more overweight than me. Men are know to burn more energy at rest than women and require more calories to keep up with their body weight. Lack of exercise and the continuous consumption of junk food also contributes to obesity in youth and adults. Nowadays some families depend...
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...Chickenpox Chickenpox is a common childhood skin disease that caused by a viral infection. The virus that is involved is called the varicella zoster virus (www.medicinenet.com). The disease has a worldwide distribution and is reported throughout the year in regions of temperature climate. The peak incidence is generally during the month of March through May lifelong immunity for chickenpox generally fellow the disease. Chickenpox is highly contagious it is easily passed between families and school classmates through airborne particle droplets in exhaled air fluid from the blisters or sores. It can be transmitted indirectly by coming into contact with article of clothing and other item exposed to fresh drainage from open sores. Patients are contagious up to five days (more commonly, one to two days), before and five days after the date that their rash appears. When all of the sores have crusted over they are no longer contagious. Before the rash appears children will get a fever, headache, swollen glands and flu like symptoms. Because chickenpox is so contagious there are treatments that you can do at home to relieve the itchy and discomfort. * For the blisters you can apply cool compress, calamine lotion, lotion containing diphenhydramine (Benadryl) should not be used. * A cool water bath every three hours to four hours, you can also add baking soda to the water to calm itching or you can soak in aveeno oatmeal bath to soothe itching blister. (www.emedicinehealth...
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...The substance abuse counselor is one, which helps individuals dealing and suffering from a variety of different addictions such as those of alcohol and drugs. The substance abuse counselor is to counsel individuals who are addicted to these substances, helping him or, she to identify and understand the behaviors and problems associated with his or, her addiction. Addiction can become a very debilitating disorder if not treated properly and for those seeking help and treatment for, one’s addiction by this type of method. Both the psychological and physical side of the individual needs to be addressed in order to benefit fully the chances of the patients overall success with the treatment (Substance use and Abuse, Week Four reading, aXcess, HCA250- The Psychology of Health course web site, 2007)....
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...Change and Innovation Paper Erica Douglas HCA/250 THE PHYSCHOLOGY OF HEALTH IN THE WORKPLACE May 11, 2014 Instructor: TERI ROSSMAN In any area of life, there will be change and there will be some form of resistance from those who are in their comfort zone. Healthcare is no different. Electronic medical records have bypassed paper records and the hustle of filing charts and retrieving charts. When implementing change, there has to be not only those that work on the technological side of things, there needs to be someone that are involved with the human side of things to work with those who are having a hard time dealing with the changes. Not everyone will adapt to change in the same manner. Some of the older workers are not as computer savvy as some of the new-aged, younger workers. This can create fear in them not only because it is something new but there can also be fear of losing one’s job because of the changes. According to "Successful Workplace" (2014), training and retraining will be key to using EMRs efficiently as first rollouts and follow on releases need to be ‘swallowed’ by healthcare organizations Education and communication can help reduce resistance to change by helping their employees see the logic of the change effort. (Robbins, S., Decenzo, D., & Coulter, M., 2014). Dealing with change is a personal experience for all involved. No two people will adapt to change in the same way. It is important for organizations to be aware that there...
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...Assignment ~ Motivation and Organizational Culture Paper October 2, 2011 Heather Foradori HCA250 Madden Being a manager in any kind of environment can be very stressful especially if it interferes with your cultural beliefs and values. In this instance Ayame Nakamura is a Japanese immigrant who works as a project manager for a pharmaceutical company in California. This particular position has a management style of confrontational, which interferes with Ayame’s cultural background. Ayame probably comes from a very strict and tight environment and is easing into a career where everything is going to be upfront and straight forward. Management is needed in all workplaces or else there would be total disorder and the business would most likely not be a very well-run business. When it comes to management in workplace psychology that is just has important because you need to understand that in order to manage the business your psych needs to be stable in negative and positive situations. Situation in which she might be very uncomfortable is when they give feedback about bad service or such. In our culture we take the negative we receive and try to turn it into a positive but in this instance she might not know how to handle negative feedback and take it hard and put more stress on her shoulders. The pharmaceutical company has to make sure that it has strong management so it can stay afloat. Even though Ayame has a...
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...Substance Abuse in the Workplace Valencia Simpson HCA250- Psychology in the Workplace Wakita Bradford August 25, 2013 Substance abuse is the overindulgence in chemical and/or drugs that affect an individual’s physical and mental well-being. There are many factors that influence if someone engages in smoking, drinking alcohol, or use drugs. Many of that is based on personal relationships, society, and sometimes the need to feel like a person is part of the “in crowd”. It not only affects the person that is doing the drugs but also the family and friends of the loved ones. Substance abuse is a disorder that is characterized by a pattern of continued use of medications or controlled substances. The portion of substance abuse that I chose would be marijuana or a legal name would be cannabis. Cannabis is often consumed for its psychoactive and physiological effects which can include heightened mood or euphoria, relaxation, and increase in appetite. Unwanted side-effects can sometimes include a decrease in short-term memory, dry mouth, impaired motor skills, reddening of the eyes, and feelings of paranoia or anxiety. Contemporary uses of cannabis are as a recreational or medicinal drug, and as part of religious or spiritual rites; the earliest recorded uses date from the 3rd millennium BC. Since the early 20th century cannabis has been subject to legal restrictions with the possession, use, and sale of cannabis preparations containing psychoactive cannabinoids currently...
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...Substance 1 Final: Substance Abuse Frank T. DiBona HCA250 May 12, 2012 2 Substance abuse is a disease that does not discriminate, no matter what race or gender, it can affect anyone, anywhere, at any given time, and children as well as adults can fall prey to this type of addiction. According to Robinson, Saisan, and Smith (2012), “Some people are able to use recreational or prescription drugs without ever experiencing negative consequences or addiction.” (para. 1). I have known people that were addicted to drugs, whether street drugs or prescribed, and I have seen the what they were like when they were clean, as well as when they were high, and I have heard the horror stories that were associated with their addiction. Being addicted can tear apart a family, make a person do things that they would not normally do, and sometimes their addiction would cause problems even when they were clean; people looking for money that was borrowed or stolen, as well as drugs. Families have gone broke, college savings gone, jewelry from a family member taken to get their next fix, household items pawned for a few dollars to buy a bag of heroine that would only last one day, if that, cars repossessed because the money that should have gone to making the payment was used to buy cocaine, and marriages broken...
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