...Collaboration to Build Healthier Communities A Report for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America Wilder Research Wilder Research Wilder Research Report prepared for the RWJF Commission to Build a Healthier America by Paul W. Mattessich, Ph.D. Wilder Research Saint Paul, Minnesota Ela J. Rausch, M.P . .P Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Minneapolis, Minnesota With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation June 2013 Creating Healthy Communities Cross-sector partnerships are sparking widespread action to improve community health COATESVILLE , PA SEATTLE, WA Access to healthy foods Access to preventative care and healthy housing LOS ANGELES , CA Quality early child care and education CHICAGO, IL Data and evidence to build health into all policies and practices MIAMI , FL Opportunities for physical activity and healthy living health community development • community development finance • community planning • early child care/education • human services • housing Introduction “ Building a healthier America is feasible in years, not decades, if we collaborate and act on what is making a difference.” —Robert Wood Johnson Foundation In 2008, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation convened a commission of nonpartisan leaders to identify opportunities to improve the health of all Americans by creating environments that protect and actively promote health. Their report, Beyond Health Care:...
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...First Name Last Name, RN, BSN City, State Zip phone, email SUMMARY Hard-working, goal-oriented, compassionate skilled professional nurse with 1 year experience on a fast-paced, 34-bed telemetry unit seeking a position that will utilize outstanding assessment skills, excellent communication skills, and provide exceptional patient care. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Hospital Name, City, State Staff Nurse – Heart Failure Unit * Provided direct patient care to patients requiring continuous telemetry monitoring including LVAD, transplant, and medical patients on the heart failure unit * Participated in coordinating discharge planning and home care with doctors, social workers, case managers, physical therapists, nutritionists * Served as a patient advocate and recognized for patient satisfaction * Monitored daily weights, intake and output, and reported symptoms and changes in patients’ condition * Actively participated in codes and rapid responses on the unit * Participated in Performance Improvement projects and activities * Provided written and teaching/demonstration skills for extensive patient education * Counseled patients a family members on the promotion and maintenance of health and disease prevention through health teaching EDUCATION College Name, City, State Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS * New Jersey Registered Professional Nurse * New York Registered Professional Nurse * Basic Life...
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...JUSTICE IN OUR POST-9/11 NATION Though there had been terrorist attacks in the United States prior to September 11, 2001, the events on that day in the skies above America, and in the cities of Washington, DC, New York, NY, and Shanksville, PA led to an unprecedented focus on the rights of victims and survivors, and historical expectations were placed upon our government as Americans looked to our leaders for protection, reparations, and justice. In some estimation, our government reacted swiftly, passing legislative measures that would reinforce the strength of the American economy. In other respects, individuals found it necessary to form private groups to advocate for measures and benefits that would not otherwise have become law without their fight. Certainly, in the realm of victim rights, advocacy, and the demand for justice, our post-9/11 nation has endured a dramatic metamorphosis. The September 11th Victim Compensation Fund was created by Congress through the Air Transportation Safety and System Stabilization Act (49 USC 40101), shortly after 9/11 to compensate victims (or their families) of the attack, should they agree not to sue. There was no such government compensation for other tragedies on American soil, such as the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City or the Katrina hurricane disaster. In this instance, the airlines asked Congress for help, and Congress decided that the airline industry “must remain financially secure; that airline...
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...46 to 11.26 per 100,000 people, between ages 10 to 24 it is the 3rd leading cause of death, 2nd leading cause in 24 to 35 year olds and the 10th from all age groups. Globally one in every 40 seconds, 800,000 a year, suicide is absolutely preventable, these are not accidents and 90% sought treatment for mental health prior. Thoughts and ideation are higher among young adults’ ages 18 to 25 years where the greatest attempts are made; among 18 and older 8.3 million report having suicidal thoughts, 2.2 million made plans, 1 in every 25 succeed in committing suicide. Between the ages 15 to 24 years old 100 to 200 attempts are made, 500,000 in the United States seek help in emergency rooms; an estimated 6.5 billion in non-fata, self-inflicted medical cost. The initiative seeks to apply ecological approaches normally dedicated to specialized populations; the approach will intrinsically identify suicide victims through venues and or genres. Public suicide prevention efforts could encompass and engage participants via screening an entire social demographic and ordained community care as means to introduce interventions. In the context of public health, suicide is on the rise in the United States and world-wide; a community’s health is diminished by the exponent death of its members. A government existence is within its ability to assure the quality of life and...
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...we call reactive--that is, they minimally address fitness levels then when illness or injury occurs, public assistance and basic health aide is provided as both solution and treatment. Our approach, which emphasizes prevention and good health promotion, is much more proactive. By helping school age youth change their behavior patterns and choose more healthy and active lifestyles, NextGen will lower parent’s health care expenditures and subsidies provided by healthcare organizations, while raising academic productivity. Health care expenditures will decrease due to reduced medical insurance premiums, reduced risk of obesity, reduced physical injuries and removal from prescription drugs that currently address these issues. 2. Situational Analysis Next Gen Fitness is a start-up company seeking to promote fitness and health reformation to youths and adolescents living within urban America city limits. NextGen staff consist of 14 professionals with backgrounds in fitness, nutrition, psychology and sports medicine. Our unique ability to serve this customer base is all the employees come from the same environment and have a...
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...Of all American healthcare organizations, safety-net hospitals are facing one of the largest curveballs, as nearly 30 million Americans stand to gain coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act beginning in 2014. Nationwide, only 2 percent of acute-care hospitals are safety-net facilities, but they currently provide about 20 percent of all uncompensated care to provided to the uninsured. Despite this statistic, a decline in America's uninsured is unlikely to relinquish the need for safety-net hospitals, according to experts. Public hospitals for the poor will still have a place in the American landscape, especially since most safety-nets are responsible for training physicians and take on significant patient volumes would otherwise incapacitate markets. Instead, it's the traditional role and public perception of safety-nets that's poised for the biggest transformation. "These hospitals don't always set out wanting to be the safety-nets, but it's a position they get forced into," says Igor Belokrinitsky, a strategy consultant with Booz & Company in Chicago. "They become a hospital of last resort, but they really want to be a hospital of choice. Do you want to stay a safety-net hospital or find something else that will set you apart?" One safey-net's approach Newspaper editor Henry W. Grady founded Atlanta-based Grady Health more than 120 years ago, concerned about a lack of quality healthcare for Atlanta's poor. Today, Grady's payer mix is roughly...
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...When Radiation Therapy Kills CASE STUDY When new expensive medical therapies come along, promising to cure people of illness, one would think that the manufacturers, doctors, and technicians, along with the hospitals and state oversight agencies, would take extreme caution in their application and use. Often this is not the case. Contemporary radiation therapy offers a good example of society failing to anticipate and control the negative impacts of a technology powerful enough to kill people. For individuals and their families suffering through a battle with cancer, technical advancements in radiation treatment represent hope and a chance for a healthy, cancer-free life. But when these highly complex machines used to treat cancers go awry or when medical technicians and doctors fail to follow proper safety procedures, it results in suffering worse than the ailments radiation aims to cure. A litany of horror stories underscores the consequences when hospitals fail to provide safe radiation treatment to cancer patients. In many of these horror stories, poor software design, poor human-machine interfaces, and lack of proper training are root causes of the problems. The deaths of Scott Jerome-Parks and Alexandra Jn-Charles, both patients of New York City hospitals, are prime examples of radiation treatments going awry. Jerome-Parks worked in southern Manhattan near the site of the World Trade Center attacks, and suspected that the tongue cancer he developed later was related...
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...Health Status and Health Care Services in Germany with comparison to the United States Table of Contents Table of contents………………………………………………………………………………… 2 Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Statistics Show…………………………………………………………………………………... 4 WHO Health Stats for US……………………………………………………………….. 4 WHO Health Stats for Germany…………………………………………………………. 4 The Big Little People Problem…………………………………………………………………... 5 The Errors of Youth…………………………………………………………………………… 5 “Battle of the Fatties”…………………………………………………………………….. 5 For the Public, By the Public…………………………………………………………………... 6 Drug Abuse Care……………………………………………………………………….... 6 Care for the Mentally Ill…………………………………………………………………. 7 Drug Related Death Rates……………………………………………………….. 7 Suicide Rates…………………………………………………………………….. 7 A Time to Die……………………………………………………………………………………. 8 The Part of Life that is Death…………………………………………………………… 8 The Part of Death that is Fear…………………………………………………………… 8 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………. 9 References……………………………………………………………………………………… 10 Introduction The long held belief that the United States is the greatest country on earth has been debated in recent years. Domestic terror attacks, stock market crashes, and a deep recession have challenged the standing of the US amongst other nations. As the US is rebounding from these domestic problems, it is in a legislative battle to reform a long failing health care system. In comparison to European countries...
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...Background of the study Hepatitis is a very significant global concern, several different viruses have been identified (Hepatitis A B C D and E), which collectively, account for the majority of viral hepatitis in humans. They afflict more than half a billion people worldwide, and are responsible for over a million deaths a year. Hepatitis-A is a condition characterized by the inflammation of the liver. Symptoms of this viral infection are not always present and this includes jaundice, stomach pain and dark color of urine. Since this virus cannot be killed, treatment consists of relieving only the symptom’s, while the body fights the infection. Ones the person is infected with the virus, they will not be infected again. The cause of Hepatitis A is a single stranded RNA virus from the family picornaviridae and genus hepatuvirus. This virus only affects human. Hepatitis-A is most commonly spread by eating, drinking or using utensils that has been contaminated with the stool of a person infected. This type of transmission is called “fecal-oral” transmission. For this reason, the virus is more easily spread in areas where there is poor sanitary condition or where good personal hygiene is not observed. According to the staff nurses interviewed at the Bontoc General Hospital, there are few cases which have been confirmed to have this disease. They believe that the common acquisition of the disease of the patients of Bontoc General Hospital is through ingestion of contaminated...
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...Case study: When radiation therapy kills When new expensive medical therapies come along, promising to cure people of illness, one would think that the manufacturers, doctors,and technicians, along with the hospitals and state oversight agencies, would take extreme caution in their application and use. Often this is not the case. Contemporary radiation therapy offers a good example of society failing to anticipate and control the negative impacts of a technology powerful enough to kill people. For individuals and their families suffering through a battle with cancer, technical advancements in radiation treatment represent hope and a chance for a healthy, cancer-free life. But when these highly complex machines used to treat cancers go awry or when nedical technicians and doctors fail to follow proper safety procedures, it results in suffering worse than ailments radication aims to cure. A litany of horror stories underscore the consequences when hospitals fail to provide safe radiation treatment to cancer patients. In many of these horror stories, poor software design, poor human-machine interfaces and lack of proper training are root causes of the problems. The deaths of Scott Jerome-Parks and Alexandra Jn-Charles, both patients of New york City hospitals, are prime examples of radiation treatments going awry. Jerome-Parks worked in southern Manhattan near the side of the World Trade Center attacks, and suspected that the tongue cancer he developed later was related to...
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...Poopology! Sucker! ------------------------------------------------- Early life [edit] Blaine was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and is of Puerto Rican descent on his father's side, and Russian Jewish on his mother's. Blaine's mother, Patrice Maureen White (1946–1995),[2] was a school teacher living in New York, and his father William Perez was a Vietnam veteran. When he was four years old, he saw a magician performing magic in the subway. This sparked a lifelong interest for Blaine.[3] He was raised by his single mother and attended many schools in Brooklyn. When he was ten years old, his mother married John Bukalo and they moved to Little Falls, New Jersey,[4] where he attended Passaic Valley Regional High School.[5] He has a half-brother named Michael James Bukalo. When he was 17 years old, Blaine moved toManhattan, New York.[6] ------------------------------------------------- Stunts and specials [edit] Street Magic and Magic Man [edit] On May 19, 1997, Blaine's first television special, David Blaine: Street Magic aired on the ABC network. According to the New York Daily News, “Blaine can lay claim to his own brand of wizardry. The magic he offers in tonight’s show operates on an uncommonly personal level.”[7] When asked about his performance style, David explained, “I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.”'[8] Time magazine commented, "his deceptively low-key, ultracool manner leaves spectators more amazed than if he'd razzle-dazzled...
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...Camden City Accelerated School Strategic Plan Grand Canyon University: EDA 575 May 15, 2013 Camden City Accelerated Academy School Profile Camden City Accelerated Academy 1033 Cambridge Ave. Camden NJ 08105 856-966-5278 Ext. 24400 (Main office) Ext. 24501 (Academic Office) 856-342-6822 Fax Executive Director: Jamar Brown Principal: Charles Johnson Director of Operations: Jaquay Waller Director of Special Education: Maura Schlindwein Purpose: The achievement of all pupils and the establishment rely on the preparation and implementation of the school administrators. ISLLC 2008 Standard one, states that the leadership team must examine assorted elements of the school community in order to design and implement the specific actions for the schools vision to come together. Also, ISLLC 2008 Standard three, states that the schools vision has to be watched carefully to guarantee success for all students and staff. Mission: “The Camden City Accelerated Academy pledge to overcome obstacles, discover individual potential and establish goals for the future in a rigorous academic environment” (Camden City Accelerated Academy Brochure, 2012) Vision: “The Camden City Accelerated Academy is dedicated to establishing the most extraordinary learning environment that allows our students to spread their wings to their fullest potential and soar into the future” (Camden City Accelerated Academy Brochure, 2012). The intent of Camden City Accelerated Academy is not...
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...one occasion." In national surveys (in the USA) about a third of high school seniors and 45 percent of college students reported at least one occasion of binge drinking within the previous 2 weeks. March 26, 2004: The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reports that, “More than five million high schoolers binge drink at least once a month.” As a Floridian who lives near one of the 'Spring Break" hot spots, this comes as no great shock. I guess there are a lot of parents out there who are surprised by these numbers and yet, what were they doing in college or when the drinking age was 18? How do you expect your kid to just say no, when you said yes not that long ago? Talk to your teenagers and be honest with them! ~ Amy. RN ~ [pic] While some national surveys have documented a significant decline in the use of other drugs by high school seniors and college-age youths, there have been only small declines in the numbers reporting binge drinking. Teenagers and young adults drink alcoholic beverages at about the same rates they did 5 years ago. Binge drinking increases the risk for alcohol-related injury, especially for young people, who often combine alcohol with other high-risk activities, such as impaired driving. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the four leading injury-related causes of death among youths under the age of 20 are motor vehicle crashes, homicides, suicides, and drowning. Alcohol is involved in many of these deaths. Sexual...
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...nonprofit public charity supported by foundation and corporate grants and individual donations. © 2012 Children’s Defense Fund. All rights reserved. Table of Contents Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Stand Up and Take Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Child and Teen Gun Deaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Child and Teen Gun Injuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Guns in Cities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 State Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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