...Prof. Sonya Blevins December 9, 2012 According to international journal of nursing the shortage is a global challenge, affecting every country in the world. However each country experiences it according to its own domestic issues. The purpose of this paper is to analyze three countries nursing population United States, Philippines and South Africa where nursing shortage has affected their health care quality. This article investigates the impact of the nursing shortage in three different countries United States with a rapid aging of its population which has an effect on the health care system, Philippines with the policy of exporting a massive of nurses oversees by the government which in return creates a vacuum in the country for skilled nurses, and South Africa where poor working condition, low wage and social unrest distress the health care system. By using literature as research tools to be able to describe what nursing shortage means for those countries and strategies that they use to address the situation. In United States the nursing shortage is more relate to an aging population. The professional issues in nursing (2009) state that between now and 2015, the population aged 85 years and older will increase by 40%. Therefore not only more nurses will be needed but also due to increase in technology the 21st century patients have shifted from acute illness to chronic illness such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease and live longer. For a quick fix...
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...problems. This country has been faced with major challenges to its environment in recent years due to climate change, population growth, increased resource consumption and overstocking making the ecosystems more vulnerable. This has caused Botswana to be susceptible to major environmental issues. I will discuss some of the major environment issues this country is currently facing today such desertification, water scarcity, and biodiversity. One major concern Botswana is facing is desertification problems that predominantly stem from the severe times of drought in the country. Due to the drought, 75% of the country’s human and animal populations are dependent on groundwater. Groundwater use has eased the effects of drought, but has left a toll on the land. Groundwater is retrieved through drilling deep boreholes, which leads to the erosion of the land. Surface water is very scarce in Botswana and less than 5% of the agriculture in the country is sustainable by rainfall. Due to this 95% of the country raises cattle and livestock as a means for an income. Therefore, it is not a surprise to see that 71% of the country’s land is used for communal grazing, which has been a major cause for the desertification of the country. Since raising livestock has proven to be profitable for the people of Botswana, the land is continuing to be exploited. The animal populations have continued to dramatically increase. Desertification is regarded as the reduction in land productivity as a result...
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...Special Populations Virginia Skov BSHS/402 March 25, 2011 A. Marie Davis Special Populations Special populations include individuals requiring help with finding resources, programs, and services to live a normal life. I researched special populations including people with disabilities, people with HIV/AIDS, addicts, senior citizens, and many more. After reviewing the different vulnerable populations and seeing the challenges each has I have decided to focus on the senior population. This is an area I am passionate about and hope to work as an advocate for in the future. The following information will address the special needs of senior citizens, programs and services for the aging, and the multicultural issues faced by this vulnerable population. The Senior Population The senior population usually refers to people who have reached the age of 65. This population is vulnerable because seniors typically are on predetermined incomes, live alone or with an aging spouse, have some form of debilitating disease, and lack the ability to perform daily activities. This vulnerable population is continuing to grow as the Baby Boomers have reached senior citizen status. According to the Washington State Office of the Attorney General (2009), The United States is in the midst of huge demographic shifts, with a third of [the] population reaching retirement age in the next few years. On January 1, 2006, [B]aby [B]oomers...
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...titled ‘Rural Health Insurance’ is one of the 3 optional caselets in this sector. BUSINESS BACKGROUND Mahindra Insurance Brokers Ltd. (MIBL) is a subsidiary of Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Ltd. MIBL was granted a Direct Broker Licence by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority in May 2004, whereby it offers Direct insurance broking services to Corporate and Retail customers in both Life and Non-Life categories. In September 2011, MIBL was granted a Composite Broker Licence enabling it to foray into Reinsurance Broking, in addition to its Direct Broking activities. MIBL is a total insurance risk solutions provider, helping customers build their risk management portfolios. It is one of the few insurance broking companies in India to have been awarded the ISO 9001:2008 Certification for Quality Management Systems. In addition to offering broking services on standard products, MIBL also provides customized solutions. For example, Mahindra Loan Suraksha is a customized life insurance solution offering Group Credit Term Cover to retail customers with auto and tractor loans from Mahindra Finance. Through this product in the unfortunate event of death of the customer by an accident or natural causes, the outstanding loan amount at that time is waived off and the customer’s family is able to retain the vehicle/tractor. Scores of people in the Indian rural market, where there is generally a single-wage earner, have greatly benefited from this product and...
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...Case Management Overview Paper Sarah Pierce BSHS405 May 21, 2014 Glenn Cummings Case Management Overview Paper The purpose of this paper is to give a brief overview of case management. This paper will first discuss the 13 various roles and responsibilities of a case manager. Then, it will explain the importance of being able it identify problems and causes of behavior theoretical models. Finally, this paper will define what a special population is and what potential issues a case manager should be prepared to address. Roles and Responsibilities There are many different roles and responsibilities for a case manager; 13 of which are briefly covered below. 1. Outreach worker: Reaches out in the field to find people who need help and refers them to the services they need, then they follow up them to make sure they received the most help or if they needed anything more. 2. Broker: Helps people get to the services they need and also helps the services and the clients communicate. The broker makes contact with the agencies that offer the services for the clients. 3. Advocate: Fights and pleads for change, services, policies, rules, regulations, and laws that will benefit the client. 4. Evaluator: Evaluates client or community needs and problems. The problems could be medical, psychiatric, social, or educational. After evaluating the problems the evaluator formulates a plan. 5. Teacher/Educator: Performs instructional activities 6. Behavior Changer:...
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...reference to a named country, evaluate attempts to manage population change (15) During 1959 China experienced a catastrophic famine due to relaxed population control and the promotion of large families, due to this famine 20 million people died. As a result China’s Communist government under the power of Chairman Mao introduced a number of management policies, including the ‘later, longer, fewer’ program and the more extreme ‘one child policy’. In the early 1970’s a policy known as the ‘later, longer, fewer’ program was introduced. It was the first real attempt to control population growth in China. The authorized age of marriage was raised to 25 for men and 23 for women, whilst couples were encouraged to wait later to begin their families, allow for longer spacing in between children and have fewer children overall. Contraceptive advice became freely available in an attempt to elongate the time before the first child was born. The policy was partially successful. It began to reduce fertility rates, although not fast enough to really slow down population growth due to the demographic momentum that had already developed. The One Child Policy was launched in 1979 when the total population reached 1 billion. The initial goal was to stabilise China’s population at 1.2 billion, but due to the slow effects of the ‘later, longer, fewer’ program and the two child family, had to be revised to keep the population under 1.4 billion until 2010. There were a number of regulations...
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...Mergent online source expressed that the Canada is rich with resources such as natural resources, their labor is skilled, it has a modern infrastructure, strong economic prospects, and its fiscal budget is balanced. Exports for Canada are roughly a third of the GDP, with the United States absorbing 80% of its exports per year. However despite Merchant’s report of Canada’s soundness, how well a country performs for their own economy is really more important by having the right trading partners, technology advance products and services, and being able produce these services in areas that need and want them at right margin prices. Here we will assess Canada’s: Principal imports and exports, gross national product (GNP) demographics of the population, and per capita income. In addition I will also discuss Canada’s target markets and recommended products (goods or services) that I believe would benefit Canada. Note: Line spacing is off, see APA 6th for correct spacing Principle Imports and Exports The significance of imports and exports provide the consumer with products and services they want and need, ultimately imports and exports affect the economy. Products and services provide choices especially products produced from foreign countries. Despite the benefits of products and services by countries abroad, countries need to consider a balance in relation to imports and exports. If too many imports are shipped to a country they can offset the balance of the exports causing...
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...FOREWORD In a span of only five years, the population of the Philippines grew by 7.7 million – from 68.8 million in 1995 to 76.5 million in 2000. During this period, the population growth rate (PGR) was 2.36 percent per year, which means the population doubling time will be within 29 years if the rate does not decline (NSO, 2001). Side by side with rapid population growth is poverty, which still grips about a third of the country's 15.3 million households (NSO, 2001a). This Country Report is timely in that it revisits the link between population/development and poverty, environment, and resources. The Report has two purposes. First, it intends to review the Philippine population/development situation, including issues of reproductive health and gender equity, from the perspective of goals affirmed in the Bali Declaration, the ICPD Program of Action and other related documents. The report's second purpose is to highlight priority population issues in the context of alleviating poverty and improving the quality of life of Filipinos. To reduce poverty significantly within the coming decade, the Philippines must face the challenge of building the capacities of its vast human capital. Only in this way can Filipino families, especially the poor, meaningfully, responsibly, and productively participate in the development process. CONTENTS |FOREWORD ...
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...Growth of Banking and Development in India The world’s second largest populated country, India, is the apple of the eye for the world now. The world economies are seeing it as their potential market. This has been going on since quite some time now, ever since 1991 reforms of liberalization, globalization and privatization. Indian markets in urban areas have grown appreciably and are on the verge of saturation, so corporates have started tapping rural markets, since more than 60 per cent of India’s population lives in rural areas. During this global meltdown and fall of exports, if the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector has been able to show rising quarterly growths, it is because of the Rural Markets and their rising spending power, which have not been affected by this meltdown. If we look at the strategies followed by Rural Marketers in the FMCG sector, it is to sell many small sachets of Rs. 2 shampoo pouches, Rs. 5 Maggi packs and the Rs. 5 chota Pepsi, because here, the strength lies in volume sale, considering the large consumer base in these rural markets which won’t spend altogether at once on buying large family packs of 500ml shampoo or super saver packs of Maggi or a Pepsi pet bottle of 2 litres. Therefore, consumption trends followed by the rural Indian are considered to be the driver of future growth of companies. And this trend of tapping rural markets is visible across all sectors now, be it FMCG, IT, Banking, education etc. For example, today...
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...The Aging Population The aging population is living longer than ever before and according to statistics this longevity and aging will continue to grow. The importance of providing the Fifty million aging Baby Boomers are sparking demand for products and environments that accommodate their changing physical and sensory capabilities. Today, one out of every 9 Americans is "old"—another former youth turns 50 every 8 seconds. Those age 65 and older now exceed 35 million, a number poised to explode. January 2011 ushered in the first of approximately 77 million Baby Boomers, born from 1946 through 1964 and are surging toward the gates of retirement (transgenerational). This growth will steadily increase and the population must be prepared to accommodate the aging population. According to the Bureau of Vital Statistics the aging population is the fastest growing population and will continue to increase. This dramatic growth in numbers and proportions, increased life expectancies, and energetic life styles, now enables us to live 20 to 25% of our lives in active retirement. Moreover, today's physically and intellectually active younger generations predict that tomorrow's elderly population will be better educated, healthier, culturally literate and, as individuals, more discerning consumers. Changes in Demographics Sustainable development means sustainable and healthy development of the whole human society on the basis of mutual coordination and common development...
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...Abstract The aim of this work is to look into urbanization trend in Pakistan and its socio-economic implications. The study would examine the effectiveness of a range of remedies applied in Pakistan, and as to how other countries are dealing with the problems arising due to urbanization. Based on analysis of the case of Pakistan and cross-country experiences, an attempt will be made to suggest remedies based on regulatory framework and various economic instruments to resolve the urbanization related issues. Urbanization is generally considered as a means and an end towards development. In Pakistan as well, the transition of a substantial portion of population to a largely urban population and the development of mega-urban regions/centers is being viewed as an engine of economic growth in the Government’s ‘New Growth Framework’. The success of this Growth Framework depends, to a large extent, on the speed with which the urban centers are transformed into dynamic, knowledge-based, productive, healthy and efficient centers. Urbanization is the process of a country becoming more industrialized from a previously agricultural dominated society; it is a cyclical process involving three essential aspects: behavior, structure and demography. Table of Contents Chapter Page 1. Introduction • Urbanization...
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...textbook. Fortunately, I had a chance to visit some of the major cities in India for a few days and form some superficial impressions of the business environment there. The first thing I noticed when I disembarked in Delhi was the wealth of foreigners in the land. Indeed, as I exited the airport, the number of Caucasians and East Asians on site was comparable to the number of natives. Wherever I went, it was common to see foreigners assimilated into the work environment. Many had brought over their spouses and children to live in the country, even if their stay was meant to be temporary only. In fact diversity, even in subtle ways, was the hallmark of my time spent at an office in Delhi. It was common for all the team members, including the management, to sit around one table at lunch time. The team included people from different religious backgrounds and a range of dietary restrictions was in place. However, people could casually joke about these differences without offending anyone in a manner that I have not yet experienced in my own country. My sense is that the regulatory environment in India is more stringent than that of Pakistan. Taxation and capital controls are taken more seriously at the corporate level as finance departments endeavour to keep their reporting accurate and up to date. The...
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...Demographics: The Aging Population Angela Lewis HCS/490 December 12, 2011 Eric Longino Demographics: The Aging Population The number of senior citizens in the United States is rapidly increasing. It has been reported that aging Americans are living healthier, longer lives while enjoying greater wealth than ever before. There are diverse decisions that must be made that will support the well-being and health of the aging population as the Baby Boomers continue to grow larger. The growth of the aging population in the United States over the next 50 years is projected to have an exceptional impact on the United States health care system. The greatest challenge to the United States will be to provide affordable, appropriate, and adequate health care. According to Hales (2009-2010) in 2003 there were nearly 36 million people who were age 65 and over and accounted for about 12% of the total population in the United States. It has also been stated by Hales (2009) that “This number is anticipated to grow to 87 million by 2050, or about 25% of the total United State population” (558). A Majority of this increase will transpire by 2030 as the last of the baby boomers reach age 65 (Jacobsen, Kent, & Mather, 2011). However, providing health care for the increasing aging population will be costly, require an adequate health care workforce, and compete with other challenges such as in-home medical care and affordable prescription drugs. The increase in the number of aging...
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...Philippines Demographics 1 Factors that Affect Population Growth 2 Advantages and Disadvantages of Large/Small Population 3 Population Control 5 How can we curb population growth? 6 IV. Conclusion 6 V. Generalization 7 VI. References 7 VII. Glossary 8 *words in red font color contain definitions on the glossary VIII. Pictures and Figures 9 Our Lady of the Pillar Catholic School, Inc. F. Tirona St., Poblacion 2 - A Imus, Cavite 4103 Prepared by: Jomari Alejandro III A. Herrera 3rd Yr. St. John Orange Team S.Y. 2011-2012 Submitted to: Mr. Jeffrey V. Cabreros MAPEH Teacher I. Introduction Population refers to the whole number of people in a place or given area or any specific proportion of that given number. Population may be associated with the number of people living in an area per square kilometer or the density of the population. Demography is the field of sociology the deals with the statistical study of human populations and sub-populations. Demographers perform censuses to update statistical data on population and ratios within the field. Population plays a vital role in the performance of countries since it is one of the factors that affect the economy of a country. It affects the gross national product of the country; logically, more manpower with secured employment for each will result a greater gross income. Furthermore, population affects the country since it is the people that...
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...Research Proposal Proposed North Bay Casino: Community Perceptions ADMN-2136 Proposed North Bay Casino: Community Perceptions Introduction On May 17th , 2012, the city of North Bay accepted the proposal from the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation to build a casino. The proposal has created differing opinions within the population. The research we would like to conduct will be analyzing the perspective of North Bay residents to discern critical factors that shape their overall impression of the topic. Socio-economic and public health sentiments are considerations used in the proposed analysis. The population`s knowledge of the coming event, recognized opportunities and benefits, perceived risks, and philosophical views are components contributing to our research. Casinos have both positive and negative implications for a community, and community attitudes are instrumental in their success rates. Research Problem A casino coming to North Bay has brought up some controversy, whether the public believes the casino would be beneficial or have a negative impact on the community. We will determine whether the residents of North Bay are opposed or supportive of this decision (Conrad, 2012). We will uncover the resident's opinion of this decision. We will be analyzing the general interpretation of North Bay's residents and if the casino will improve tourism for this area. This could be an exciting attraction and improve the social quality of the city. Additional...
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