...Taking a comprehensive look at the quality of healthcare for our senior citizens and answering the question why the United States has a epidemic of obesity and how we can stop it. Today, the health care systems have advanced by prolonging life expectancy and quality of life. Though, providing health care is not cheap and easy to do. Cost, accessibility, and quality is a challenge that they face in order to provide the people with healthcare. Learning and being aware of disease trends can provides us with invaluable knowledge in treating our elderly and preventing obesity in today's society.. The major tend that will influence healthcare in the future of the United States is when the generation known as the"baby boomers", who are the the fastest growing age groups and adults born between (1946 and 1964) will turn 65 in 2011.(1) This group of seniors will also have chronic health conditions as they age that will be the major cause of illness, disability, and death in the United States. The nations population is estimated to increase to to increase to 392 million by 2050 because life expectancy is projected to increase from 76.0 years in 1993 to 82.6 years in 2050. In 2050, life expectancy in the low assumption would be 75.3 years and in the high assumption would be 87.5 years. “About 30 percent of the population in 1994 were born during the Baby Boom. As this population ages, the median age will rise. People born during the Baby Boom will...
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...Should over-eating that leads to obesity be considered an eating disorder? Introduction The twenty-first century has seen many changes in body image from previous decades, ranging from all different body shapes and sizes. As the media is glorifying slenderness and a thin physique the rates of obesity all over the world are still increasing at an exceptional level. Obesity can be simply defined as having too much excess body fat that is considered healthy for a person’s height. Obesity after several decades of controversy has been finally recognised as a disease by the obesity Society in 2008. Just like all other diseases obesity can have very serious consequences on a person’s health. There are a lot of factors that come into context to determine if someone is obese or not. Currently the most convenient way to diagnose obesity is by examining a person’s BMI (Body mass Index). If an adult’s BMI results come back with a figure ranging between 25-30 they are likely considered to be overweight thus any score over 30 is on the scale of obesity. Obesity rates will continue to soar if people don’t take immediate action. Obesity is not always the result of excessive over eating or an extreme lack of exercise and physical activity, but it also is the result of biological and behavioural factors. (A)What are the causes of obesity? The cause of obesity is not always clear. Individual differences will play a huge role in determining what the cause of obesity is. The most known...
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...Zachery Yates English 103 Dr. Stephen Clifford 10 March 2011 Educating a Child Inside and Out “Just say NO!” This is an exclamation that we begin teaching our children in an attempt to keep them safe from harm. “Say no to drugs!” “Say no to strangers!” Our attempts in protecting children from any of the evils of the world usually fall back to having them, “Just say NO!” But, how does this protect them from the pitfalls and dangers of childhood obesity? How can we teach them to say “no” to unhealthy food or habits that are instilled upon them from their school meals, education or classmates’ influences? How can we protect their self-esteem from being damaged from childhood teasing? How can we protect them from the onset of adult disabilities while at an adolescent age? The value of an education has always been deemed as “priceless” but our current education system is allowing one of the key components of a healthy life, inside and out, to be overlooked. The missing piece in our children’s education system is the emphasis being placed on physical fitness. Today’s children are required to proficiently pass certain benchmarks in the areas of Reading, Writing and Math. But, these components are not enough to protect our children and educate our children for the eventual road to adulthood. Physical fitness needs to be recognized as one of the essential areas of childhood growth and education. It must be treated with as much importance as the current mental benchmarks of Reading...
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...Trident University Data analysis is a procedure of inspecting, cleaning, transforming, and modelling data with the goal of highlighting useful information, suggesting conclusions, and supporting decision making. There are multiple facts and approaches, encompassing diverse techniques under a variety of names, in different business, science, and social science domains in data analysis. For data analysis we have to mine the data first for our purpose such that the data we can handle easily. Basically for data analysis our first thing to do our planning, how we are going to collect the data, our going data going to make sense or not, actually data will be meaningful for our object, after planning all this we have to target which population we are going to take, how we are going to frame them first and from that population we have to take samples for our purpose. Target population: The complete collection of objects whose description is the major goal of the study. Designating the target population is a crucial but often difficult part of the first step in an observational or experimental study. For example, in a survey to decide if a new storm-water drainage tax should be implemented, should the target population be all persons over the age of 18 in the county, all registered voters, or all persons paying property taxes? The selection of the target population may have a profound effect on the results of the study. We are going...
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