...Library Philosophy and Practice 2008 ISSN 1522-0222 Importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Making a Heathy Information Society: A Case Study of Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria Monday Obaidjevwe Ogbomo Esoswo Francisca Ogbomo Department of Library and Information Science Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria Introduction There is widespread research interest in information and communication technologies (ICTs). According to Crede & Mansell (1998), ICTs are crucially important for sustainable development in developing countries. Thioune (2003) notes that for the past two decades most developed countries have witnessed significant changes that can be traced to ICTs. These multi-dimensional changes have been observed in almost all aspects of life: economics, education, communication, and travel. In a technologydriven society, getting information quickly is important for both sender and receiver. ICTs have made it possible to quickly find and distribute information. Thoiune (2003) indicates that many initiatives have taken at the international level to support Africa's efforts to develop a communication infrastructure and. These efforts are designed to enable African countries, including Nigeria, to find faster ways to achieve durable and sustainable development. Helmut (1998), cited by Akpore (1999), states that of the technological changes that have influenced our lives in recent years, information technology (IT) has...
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...measure energy from foods9. the foods and beverages a person consumes | Type here your answers to crossword puzzle: Across: Down 2 Organic 1 foods 4 Vitamins 3 Nutrition 6 Elemental 5 Malnutrition 8 phytochemicals 7 Calories 10 Essential nutrition 9 Diet Worksheet 2: Dietary Reference Intakes and Food Composition Tables The Dietary Reference Intakes are a collection of 4 nutrient values used for different purposes. List below the definitions for the abbreviations. When or why would these values be used? 1. RDA – It stands for Recommended Dietary Allowances. Nutrient intake that are suffir=encient to meet the needs of almost all heathy people in a specific gender and life stage group 2. AI – Adequate intake nutrient intakes that should be use as a goal when no rda existsit vales are approximation of the nutrient...
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...Prime Deason Poverty is a Direct Link to Obesity ITT It is not a secret that food has become significantly more expensive over the past years. Take a walk down an aisle in any grocery store and one would take notice that purchasing all of the five major food groups could potentially leave the consumer broke by the time they check-out. While the price on meats, fruits, and vegetables increases, the amount of cheap, prepackaged meals on the shelves continues to grow. Although, processed foods have been in grocery stores for quite some time, they have now almost taken over the super markets. While affordable and convenient, these prepackaged, processed foods can lead to many heathy problems, including obesity. With prices on food at the grocery store driving consumers away, the fast food industry has been stepped up in a big way. Along with families on-the-go, many families living poverty have turned the convenience of inexpensive, fast food. Known as the “dollar menu,” almost every fast food restaurant in the United States has this option on their menu. Not only is the “dollar menu” popular, but “value meals” are a favorite for consumers, as well. Fast food restaurants, such as McDonalds and Burger King, are not the only problem, though. Pizza establishments, for example CiCi’s and Pizza Hut, offer all you can eat buffets for considerably low prices. With the “dollar menu” and all you can eat buffets, the fast food industry markets their low prices geared towards poverty...
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...The 2020 leading health indicator that interest me the most is clinical prevention. In my opinion, clinical prevention is the healthcare provider ability offer prevention advice or referrals that will educate patients and empower the patient to improve their health. I want to give people health power. This power will allow patients to live longer and heathy lives. In addition, it saves the patient and society money. Preventive services offer reduce death from disease as cancers. To eradicate diseases using immunization. Stop obese by offer information and nutrition alternatives. I would like create option for the disable. Whether it a leading health indicator such as, colorectal cancer screening , hypertension, diabetes, immunizations or...
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...Racism and discrimination are ethnicity-related stressors that can cause poor health outcomes and disparities in health. In comparison to White people, these factors are increasingly associated with an overrepresentation of minority groups (such as African American and Latinos) with persistent health disparities (Myers, 2009). Additionally, African Americans, more than any other minority group, have the poorest health outcomes and disparities. Perceived racial discrimination (PRD), or a feeling that unfair treatment was given based on ethnicity, is reported in higher levels by minority groups than Caucasians (Adam et al., 2015). PRD can cause chronic stress in individuals’ daily lives and throughout their lifetimes. One way of measuring the...
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...mental function”. I think the government needs to change that’s. An alternative for those deemed unfit would be public transportation. But by making it cheaper and more accommodating to the elderly I feel there won’t be as much of an outcry over revoking driving privileges. Larry Lipman say “Losing driving privileges is traumatic” but it doesn’t have to be if you make the alternative a more appeling option. In conclusion I feel that that the elderly show be watched with a closer eye when behind the wheel. By imposing simple age restrictions and yearly test we can prevent many possible fatal car accidents. But instead of just taking away driving privileges, giving the elderly alternative means of getting around as to maintain a heathy and productive life....
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...Michelle Obama has created an program for the United States that she insist will "solve the problem of childhood obesity." Many health problems come along with the struggle of obesity. Obesity can trigger diabetes, cancers, high blood pressure, asthma, and heart disease. "Lets Move," the program, covers a long line of problems. It will increase physical activity among communities as well are promote better eating habits by making heathy food available for cities that don't have access to such. This program started off with a lot of support from sport figures, state governments, US government departments and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Being a first lady you become very involved in American and doing anything you can do to improve it. So to start of...
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...information that can lead to the identity of employees and patients, billing information about patients. Etc. The Information security analyst team is responsible for the determination of which employees require access to PHI and what level of access they require through discussions with the employee’s manager and approval. II. "No cardholder data should be stored unless it’s necessary to meet the needs of the business". (PCI Security Standards Council, 2010). III. Every Heart-Healthy new employee must sign a confidentiality and security standards agreement for handling customer information. IV. Every Heart-Healthy new employee will undergo security training that will be administered by the Information security analyst team. V. Every Heart-Heathy new employee must have a unique identifier. i.e. User ID PASSWORD REQUIREMENTS Passwords are an important aspect of computer and systems security. They are the front line of protection for user accounts. An imperfectly chosen password may lead in the compromise of...
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...perception of sports and nutrient in Qatar, where people think it’s a difficult and time-consuming process. | (2) Provide a list of your tactics and how they support your overall campaign strategy: | Pre-event activities: The aim is to primarily push our target audience to register for the event.Social media- 1) Create engaging posts about healthy habits that will be easily sharable. 2) Reach out to social media influencers to be part of the event, e.g. Mohammed Al Kuwari- chef and advocate of healthy eating. 3) Create (#Challenge_with_Friends) a weekly competition supported by our influencers. For instance, Mohammed, our chef, can create a healthy breakfast recipe post for our account and we’ll ask our followers to recreate their own heathy breakfast version and tag us to win a one-on-one lesson with Mohammed (redeemable during the event). Activation- We will promote our event by creating a health check booth where visitors will be able to get a healthy weight assessments and an invite to our event. Event: It’s a one day event filled with simple and fun activities. It will run under two main themes: sports and nutrient. The day...
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...Tuan Le ENGL 101 Feb 25, 2016 Why Does Stress Should Be Reduced in People’s Live? In modern life, stress is so common that it has become a part of life. Stress is not always bad. Stress with positive force can help us perform under pressure, motivate us to do our best such as studying for exam, working with deadline or a job interview. However, when stress is a negative force, it can adversely affect everything in our live such as health, mood, relationship and quality of life. Therefore, stress is a harmful force, and it should be reduced in people’s live. Let’s talk about stress. Stress is body’s way of responding to many kind of demand, and it can be caused by both good and bad experiences. In addition, stress happens when people can’t face with pressure, and this pressure can be in many shapes and forms. But, a negative stress can cause may horrible physiological reactions for people. Physical effects, nervous system effects and psychosocial effects are the main effects that stress can cause on human’s body. The first is physical stress effects; according to Stress Symptoms, Signs, and Cause, a negative stress can cause many physical effects on human’s body such as weigh gain, hair loss, digestives problem, heart attack, etc. The research’s show that 40 percent of deaths and 70 percent of diseases in the United States are related to stress. For example, hair loss is the most common stress, and this stress usually have been seen in individuals who have a difficult...
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...Danielle Murgio “Benefits of a bodily cleanse” There are many different ways to cleanse the body, but they all have similar results and benefits. They improve senses, help with weight loss, and show positive changes to hair and skin, and plenty of other healthy changes. I will talk about the benefits and how they can help lead to an overall healthier lifestyle. A detox will boost you’re energy and rid the body of excess bodily waste. Energy is boosted because the intake of sugar, caffeine, Trans fat, and saturated fat is replaced with fruits, vegetables, and water and that provides a healthier natural boost of energy. Another major advantage that detoxing provides is the purging of the body. The liver, kidneys, and colon are all flushed and removes most if not all of the toxins that were being stored. A common side effect of a backed up colon is bad breath, so cleansing the colon can also result in the loss of bad breath although results may not be the same for everyone. Detoxing can help with weight loss and boosting the strength of the immune system. Detoxing will make you lose a good portion of water weight as long as you are properly staying hydrated and will lower calorie intake and in turn you will lose some weight. But in order for the weight loss to become steady you will have to continue making healthier choices after you’re detox is complete. The immune system if highly improved after a detox because all the organs...
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...achieving other goals. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs supports this program because the theory suggests that the most basic level of needs (food, water, shelter, safety, health) must be met before the individual will strongly desire other life’s motivations (love, sex, creativity, morality). Referral Statement On October 15, 2015, a client had called CCEVA (at 11:30 a.m.) about needing diaper resources for a one-month old girl, and a fifteen-month old boy. The client stated she did not have anymore diapers and she had no financial resources. The client’s husband had lost his job, and had not been able to obtain employment. The client was given an appointment the same day at 3:00 p.m. The client was referred by her Healthy Families caseworker. Heathy Families is a new parent support program that assists to strengthen the parenting skills for caregivers in the community. Their goal is to increase the chance for all children to have a healthy start in life and enter school ready to learn. My role will be to provide case management services to the family and provide therapeutic interventions with the child. A. Other agencies providing services After our initial meeting, I learned the client receives services from the following programs: • Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, the client receives $900.00 per month for a household of five. The family can purchase food from any SNAP approved store as long as the food is not hot and prepared. •...
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...MY PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT ON EDUCATION ( DRAFT) BY CLAUDIA SANCHEZ FOGARTY I Beleave children are our future, by saying this, I feel responsable as a teacher to help them reach thier full potential, and to guide them to become heathy and productuctive happy grownups. To achive my goal i will lead the children to reach allways their maximum potential in every aspect of their learning process by exposing them to their soroundings and teaching the kids the role of every subjet in life, by experiment with real cituations in class, to have all kinds of materials and resources for them to use during the learning process, providing them a clean, safe, and happy atmosphere will be essential to do so. During this process i will let the children chalege themselfs to a higher level and have them learn that always trying is the must important thing, make them proud of their individual achivement. With every day activities record their improvements by taking pictuters and notes so i will be able to measure their leaning levels and new abilities and knowing their strenghts and weekneses will help me focuse in particular in each one of them, Letting the Parents get involve in some activities will also help me maintain their enrichment, and a better team work at home and school to reach all the goals. 1 Also showing the kids their improvements and prace it will give confidence and leading them to make desitions ang give out oppinions or suggestions by themselfs in order...
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...are obese. I feel the reason that we have so many kids that are so over weight is because of all the devices nowadays. You’ve got your iPod’s, iPad’s, cell phones, the Xbox, the Wii, Nintendo DS, and all the television channels, the kids are not outside playing, or riding bikes anymore. No they have their heads in a device sitting on their butts. When I was a child I would be outside from sun up to sun down, would only come in for lunch and dinner. I was out running, playing, swimming and riding my bike. Now I also feel that parents that are divorced don’t say no to all the junk food as much as if they were still married. I feel they are trying to win the love of their child anyway they can. Plus I feel that they eat out more and not as heathy when they are divorced, that’s just my opinion. I even believe babies are overweight nowadays with the parents wanting the baby to sleep all night they add cereal to their baby’s bottles making them gain weight. That’s not good for them it stretches their stomach then when they start eating baby food they want more then they need because it takes more to fill them up. Now that you have an overweight baby then it’s an overweight toddler and it just keeps going. It is really sad. Before you know it you have and overweight adult. Now for adult obesity, people are lazy. Like the kids nowadays the adults have their head suck in their devices as well. It’s easy to just sit home and look on Facebook or Pinterst, you can be on that for days. I...
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...He goes on to say, that whenever a heathy discussion/ argument has surfaced, the goal isn't always to completely change one's opinions completely in your favor, but to instead, to merely gain the respect and consideration of your opponent. I believe in the support of this sub claim greatly and can't support it enough. This is further backed through a quote from E. B. White when he says, "Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the...
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