...Steven Palestino Critical Thinking Assignment 1 Healthy People 2020 Healthy People was established in 1979 by the Department of Health and Human Services with a mission to improve health and well-being across the entire nation (Nutrition, Health and Safety for Young Children: Promoting Wellness.). Healthy People tracks information about disease, health equity, disparities, overall wellness, and hundreds of other important categories (Center for Disease Control and Prevention). The Healthy People initiative tracks and records data every ten years and shows if improvements are made in several different categories. Healthy People 2020 is the most recent program. The Healthy People 2020 initiative consists of 600 objectives which are further broken down into 42 topic areas, and 28 health indicator focus areas (Nutrition, Health and…). The initiative focuses on national statistics, with state and residential statistics added over the period of time. One of the most important objectives that deals with this class is the section about Early and Middle Childhood. The goal of the Early and Middle Childhood objective is to “document and track population based measures of health and well-being for early and middle childhood populations over time in the United States” (Healthy People). Early childhood is defined from birth to the age of eight years old and is important because it is a time extreme physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Middle childhood...
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...Health Promotion Prevention Adrianne Gorman Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-0104 August 10, 2014 The health promotion includes strengthening the skills of individuals to encourage healthy behaviors, and it also includes constructing the healthy social and physical environments to support these actions (Green 1979). It includes any mixture of health instruction and associated organizational, economic, and political interventions designed to facilitate behavioral and environmental changes promoting to health (WHO, 2011). Health promotion involves all different countries from around the world to join together in collaboration to ensure that all the people from each and every community have the resources and information available to educate and further advance their participation in healthy lifestyle. This should be an opportunity available to all individuals even if they are financially dependent, old, uneducated, educated, affluent, or young to name just a few. The green health promotion gives the idea of improving the ecological health and sustainability of the community, school, or business. Green health promotion has been a term since 1986 when the Ottawa Carter for Health Promotion was involved in the ecological public health movement. Green promotion is heard throughout the country. Addressing the green health promotion in schools shows that there is a lack of collaboration between groups educating and the nursing professional. We must begin working on...
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...BSB PLC 10th December, 2014. Liverpool Title: BSB Employee Wellness Programme PLAN : IN RELATION TO HEALTHY EATING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. Abstract: Well-being is about staff being confident, happy and healthy and it focuses on the development of individuals. It has two main elements: psychological and physical well-being. Physical well-being is important for learning and developmental capabilities by Viv Young and Claire Bhaumik,( 2011) Health and well-being at work: a survey of employees [online]. Available at: http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rrs-index.asp . Accessed on: 5th December,2014. In furtherance to the above, a number of research findings inspired by the World Health Organization (WHO) have suggested that lifestyle behavioural choices contribute to a significant proportion of chronic diseases globally, thereby necessitating strategies to improve behavioural risk factors such as healthier eating and regular physical activity to be considered in a variety of settings including the workplace. It’s pointed out that: "Workplaces are important settings for health promotion and disease prevention. People need to be given the opportunity to make healthy choices in the workplace in order to reduce their exposure to risk. Workplaces should make possible healthy food choices and support and encourage physical activity" . Agency: This can be said to be in link with the agency theory-Agency is the capacity of individuals to act independently and...
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...started by Jack Cohan. It was 1st opened at Edgware, North London in 1929. Initially Company had grown and reflected in Retailing. The company floated on the Stock exchange in 1947 with an initial price of 25 pounds. Strategies Implemented 1. The company makes the use of stamps that could be exchanges for cash or goods. So company could build customer loyalty. 2. Cohen’s another strategy was ‘Pile it high and sell it cheap’. 3. After that, they moved to out of towns and started store with more attractive interiors. 4. Another strategy that they had take up that they have started stores at petrol bunks. Overall they made a turn over of 1billion pounds in 1979. 5. In 1980’s they had started new stores and new initiatives to start some other business also. 6. In 1985 they announced healthy eating options with nutritional information and advice on some of branded foods. 7. In 1990’s they moved to undertake other major supermarkets as well. 8. They deal with pharmacies and make tie up with the Royal Bank of Scotland to provide EMI schemes to the customers and also overcome the profit of Levi’s outlet. 9. In the new century they have moved up with Shopping via Internet and home delivery 10. In 1933 through to its finest products as well as a brand called “Free from” for customers with special diatory needs. 11. They also expand their business in Japan, Malaysia, South Korea and Ireland etc. Future Strategies 1. Now a days most of the Company...
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...it related to personal health behaviors (U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, 2011). This paper will examine the Healthy People 2020 objective HDS-3, Reducing Stroke Deaths (U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2011), and how the promotion of this objective has progressed since it’s Healthy People 2010, 12-7, predecessor. History The Healthy People initiative was introduced in 1979, by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in an effort to provide a systematic approach to improving health (Koh, 2010). The plans, known as HP 1990-Promoting Health/Preventing Disease (Centers for Disease Control, 2011), Healthy People 2000, Healthy People 2010 and the current Healthy People 2020 have focused on identifying health priorities and aligning the strategies to effectively implement those strategies. The goals related to each version of the initiative have changed, as have the number of objectives/measures. HP 1990 goals were to decrease mortality in infants and adults and to increase the independence among older adults while the Healthy People 2020 goals were aimed at: - attaining high quality, longer lives - achieving health equity, eliminating disparities - creating social and physical environments that promote good health - promoting quality of life, healthy development, healthy behaviors (Centers for Disease Control, 2011) Literature Review One can see that the earlier goals were focused...
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...The Labour Government, with the intention of creating a system of universal whilst also free health-care across England, established the National Health Service in 1948. Both the conservative and the Labour governments subscribed to a ballot about how the NHS should be run until 1979 when the new prime minister, Margaret Thatcher took power. The conservative reform of the NHS concentrated on four elements. These four elements included: the principles of the free market for example, competition were introduced and encouraged in health care. GP’s become responsible for their own budgets and were known as fund holders. This is where they were able to purchase service on behalf of their patients registered to them from hospital trusts. This idea was that the service could promote efficiency whilst also reducing the costs as trusts competed with each other to provide services. The second element was that the care in the community was designed to take the disabled and mentally ill, the old and the sick out of institutional care and to put them back into the care of their family and the wider community. The third element focused on private health schemes, where this period saw an increase in private homes for the elderly. The last element was the introduction of a patient’s charter, which, was introduced in 1992 in order to understand performance standards for health care. However, there have been many suggestions that the health service has been shaped into a three-tier system...
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...McDonald’s Healthy Happy Meal: Marketing Plan Group 1 Christopher Odiah Michele Parker Caratrella Woodberry Marketing Management: MKTG-522 Professor Yabs Semester: Summer B 2012 Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2.0 Situation Analysis 2.1 Market Summary 2.2 SWOT Analysis 2.3 Competition 2.4 Product (Service) Offering 2.5 Keys to Success 2.6 Critical Issues 3.0 Marketing Strategy 3.1 Mission 3.2 Marketing Objectives 3.3 Financial Objectives 3.4 Target Markets 3.5 Positioning 3.6 Strategies 3.7 Marketing Mix 3.8 Marketing Research 4.0 Controls 4.1 Implementation 4.2 Marketing Organization 4.3 Contingency Planning 5.0 Conclusion 2.0 Situation Analysis McDonald’s is a late entrant to the healthy food choice market for kid’s meals, even though they have added healthy food items like premium salads and wraps to their menu for adults within the last five years. Competitors like Chick-Fil-A, Arby’s and Subway have made more penetration into this market by offering kid’s meal choices to its customers that are lower in calories and fat content. McDonald’s can leverage the prime position it occupies in the $236 billion fast food industry in the US to strategically position itself to compete for this market through innovation and creativity. It is currently re-branding as part...
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...As human beings, we cannot live alone. Since we born, we are part of various groups in our society, such as family, neighbourhood, town, city and nation. Within those groups, we need to take part in socialisation, as we all are social beings. Therefore, it is necessary to have the skills for us to behave appropriately. To obtain these skills, positive self-esteem and self-image are required. Young children need to be loved and cared for as well as feeling safe and valued in order to have a healthy emotional development. This early emotional development involves developing relationships with others, which build the foundation for young children to develop their ability. Instead of feeling anxious about the possibility of being abandoned, children feel secured enable them to start exploring their environment and becoming independent. The very first relationship is usually built between a baby and a primary caregiver, usually the mother or mother substitute. This relationship is of particular significance as it develops the attachment, which is vital as the foundation of developing subsequent relationship (MCI, undated). "The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature" (Bowlby, 1988, p3) Attachment is described as “an enduring bond” (MCI, undated) and further elaborated by the attachment theorist, John Bowlby. He famously stated “what is believed to be essential for mental health is that an infant and young child...
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...the UK’s leading financial services, specialising mainly in vehicle and home insurance, as well as a range of supplementary products such as breakdown cover, legal protection and personal accident cover. It employs more than 3,000 people in several different locations. Despite the organisations continued success through increased profits, they remain focused on employee engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In 2010, BGL have introduced the ‘My Wellbeing’ programme, which consisted of four main pillars; My Health, My Fitness, My Happiness and My Relaxation and Energy. BGL states that the programme is of ‘central importance to their CSR focused strategy’. CSR is rapidly gaining recognition all over the world, where the organisations are expected not only fulfil their legal obligations but to voluntarily take further steps to improve the quality of life for the employees and their families as well as for the local community and society at large. WELLBEING AND STRESS The economic and health costs of stressful work environments may be much greater than many suspect. Cardiovascular illness has been strongly implicated as a potential health outcome for those exposed to stressful work conditions (Karasek, 1979). In Britain, heart disease accounts for a loss of 70...
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...the UK’s leading financial services, specialising mainly in vehicle and home insurance, as well as a range of supplementary products such as breakdown cover, legal protection and personal accident cover. It employs more than 3,000 people in several different locations. Despite the organisations continued success through increased profits, they remain focused on employee engagement and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In 2010, BGL have introduced the ‘My Wellbeing’ programme, which consisted of four main pillars; My Health, My Fitness, My Happiness and My Relaxation and Energy. BGL states that the programme is of ‘central importance to their CSR focused strategy’. CSR is rapidly gaining recognition all over the world, where the organisations are expected not only fulfil their legal obligations but to voluntarily take further steps to improve the quality of life for the employees and their families as well as for the local community and society at large. WELLBEING AND STRESS The economic and health costs of stressful work environments may be much greater than many suspect. Cardiovascular illness has been strongly implicated as a potential health outcome for those exposed to stressful work conditions (Karasek, 1979). In Britain, heart disease accounts for a loss of 70...
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...The Social Context of Childhood Describe and analyse how social factors impact upon children and young people and consider how your setting and practice responds to it. The concept about the nature of childhood has changed in significant ways over time. According to James & Prout (1997) the beginning of the twentieth century has marked what they refer to as 'Century of Child'. This is the time when children were acknowledged as the future of every country. Serious attention was paid to things such as children’s health and education. Also many campaigns were formed to relieve child poverty, which led to the first major success of the Family Allowances Act (1946). This act offered a regular sum for second and subsequent children to be paid to the mother, raising the living standards of children and providing a better quality of life. However over the years particular attention has been paid to the environment that children live and the impact that it has upon their development and life chances. Bronfrebnner (1979) looks at the environment as a layered complex where each layer has an effect on child’s development and life chances. He believed that interaction between factors in the child’s maturing biology, his immediate family/community environment, and the social background fuels and directs his development. Bronfrebnner (1979) continues that modifications or conflict in any one layer of child’s environment will flow through other layers. Furthermore Paquette...
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...RESISTANCE TO ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE Introduction Resistance is a common reason for the failure of change initiatives. The subject is thus of extreme importance to management. This paper explores the contention by King and Anderson that a common theme in defining resistance is “a naïve and managerialist assumption that resistance is counter-productive – even irrational – behaviour which needs to be overcome” with an emphasis on organisational change. It begins by looking at organisational change and its managerialist perspective and then examines resistance in an organisational setting. It ends with suggestions on how resistance to change should be managed by organisations. What is organisational change? Organisational change can be described as the transformation of an organisation from a current state to another, desired state. In all definitions of change there is the emphasis on the alteration from one state to another (Goodman and Kurke 1982). This process can be either structured or unstructured and can be either incremental (an improvement on an existing state) or transformational (a total transformation to another state). Organisations themselves have been defined as “social arrangements for the controlled performance of collective goals” (Huczynski and Buchanan 1991) and Rogers (1962) defines change as an alteration in the structure and function of a social system. While no consensus exists as to why organisations change (Hughes 2010), it is generally accepted...
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... Contribution of Human Resource Management in achievement of organisational objectives Human Resource Management seeks to achieve - Individual, Social Organizational Goals: Organization is a social unit that is composed of number of people and function through people only. All the resources such as men, money, materials and machinery are collected, co-ordinate and fictionalized by the people. Without human efforts, no organization can achieve its goals. Therefore, this resource is called human resource, which is the most significant resource of any organization. We also consider that human resource become unending source of ability, power, skill, efficiency, knowledge, creativity for accomplishment of organizational objectives and also play crucial role in management process. These days, organizations have realized that the most valuable asset in the organization is its people. The growth of an organization depends on talent of its human assets as people act as change agents for the implementation of any initiatives in an organization.(Baptiste, 2004) Human resource management is a set of policies, practices and programs formulated to achieve both personal and organizational goals as it is the process of binding people and organizations together. According to Flippo, Human Resource Management “the planning, organizing, directing and controlling of the various aspect of human resources to the end that individual, organizational and social objectives are accomplished”...
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...Services, also referred to as the Health Department, is the United States federal department and principal agency for protecting the health and welfare of all Americans; created in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officially opened on 4 May 1980 after it was removed from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). Attached were four major operating agencies of HHS: the Office of Human Development Services, the Public Health Service, HCFA, and the Social Security Administration (SSA). The major events during the 1980s at HHS concerned health care finance. A former U.S. Senator, Richard Schweiker, was appointed secretary of HHS by President Ronald Regan. He worked on changing the way in which the federal government reimbursed hospitals under Medicare from retrospective, or payment after the fact based on cost, to perspective, or payment in advance based on the diagnosis of the person as treated. In the early 1990s President William Clinton made welfare reform and health insurance his two priorities in the HHS realm. He failed in 1993 to get his health insurance proposals through Congress, despite a major publicity campaign help from his HHS secretary and former university president Donna Shalala. Therefore, he went with his initiative to end welfare as an open-ended entitlement and to substitute a program that left more discretion to the states than previously and made a job, rather than an income maintenance grant...
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...University of Phoenix Material History of Nursing Research Worksheet There have been many influential publications, agencies, and people in the field of nursing research. Write 1–3 sentences in each cell of the table below to describe the importance, goal, or influence of each item. |Publications |First publication date and importance: | |Nursing Research |First Published: 1952 (Burns & Grove, 2007. p. 9) | | |Importance: | | |“Research conducted by the ANA and other specialty groups provided | | |the basis for nursing practice standards that currently guide | | |professional practice. The increase in research activity in the | | |1940’s prompted the first publication of Nursing Research” (Burns & | | |Grove, 2007, p. 9). | |Sigma Theta Tau Journal published by this organization is |First Published: 1967 (Burns & Grove, 2007. p. 10) | |now called...
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