...Public Health and Health Care HCS/535 Public Health And Health Care Public health agencies can affect one’s workplace in many ways. An organization that does research on developmental health issues has to deal with the Department of Developmental Services or DDS on a regular basis. The Department of Developmental Services is a division of the Health and Human Services and helps create opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities. The DDS plays a major role in public health of the community of developmental disabilities. The role of public agencies in health as a whole helps provide care for the disabled, advocate for social rights and better health for the communities. They also help create a network of workers that are responsible for ensuring that individuals with developmental disabilities have their chance in society and are treated fair and with dignity. The Department of Developmental Services * The Department of Developmental Services is dedicated to creating innovation as well as genuine opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities to participate fully and meaningfully in, and contribute to their communities as valued members (HHS, n.d.). The DDS have many principles to help guide them in accomplishing their goal. Some of those principles include respecting each individual by promoting the human and civil rights, and try to prevent neglect and abuse. Also the DDS helps enhance public awareness about people with intellectual disabilities...
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...Public Health and Health Care Paper Health care focuses on the health of individuals whereas public health focuses on preventing disease and injury while promoting and protecting the health of populations. Public health is the science and art of promoting health, prolonging life, and preventing disease as a result of organized community efforts. Public health by way of systematic effort, identify the health needs of the community and then organize ample health service for the defined population (Association of Schools of Public Health, n.d.). The interdisciplinary approach of health services, biostatistics, and epidemiology are incorporated in public health. The purpose of this paper is to describe Center of disease control and prevention (CDC) as a public health agency and how it contributes to the core functions of public health. This paper will also examine the specific ways CDC influences the health care organizations and provider and will also discuss the roles of the agency workers including specific responsibilities, competencies, and skills. CDC as an agency and its contribution to the core functions of public health. CDC is the lead federal government public health agency and a key operational element of the Department of Health and Human Services. The CDC manages a variety of programs intended to control and prevent specific disability risks, injury, and disease on a national level through dissemination activities, program development, research, epidemiologic surveillance...
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...2015 Community and Public health care is the best avenue in promoting health and prevention of illness in a community based setting. Usability of Pender’s Health Model and Health Belief Model in a community or public health program is Pender’s research focus on health care activities that will promote wellness of people. Health promotion, disease prevention can be more easily established and practice through community mobilization. People in rural areas practice holistic medicine, this may be due to socio-economic, culture and demographic where access to health care is limited or too expensive. Health Belief Model is a cognitively based model that focus health promotion, etiology of the identification of the disease process as it affects the community. This was one of the first health care theories, developed by Public Health Nurses to improved community health programs, in order to improved community participations in health and wellness programs. Healthy behaviors maybe identified by a person perception and behavioral modifications. For example high risk sexual behaviors and the possibility of acquiring the disease process.( Croyle RT, 2005 ) They differences between these two Model – a. Pender’s Health Promotion Model aimed to educate Public Health Nurses, in order for these nurses to become professional patient advocate in the disease process to educate their clients. Through education it will promote healthy behaviors, Pender’s (1987) saw health promotion as comprised...
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...Public Health Care Nurse Case Study As a public health nurse, I can identify certain risk factors based on client information. These risk factors include habits and routines that can negatively affect a person. Furthermore, genetic factors and environmental conditions play a key role (Harkness & DeMarco, 2012, p. 68). In this public health care nurse case study, a young female suffers from malnourishment, substance abuse, economic duress, and poor living conditions. Emotionally, she is in distress and is now seeking assistance. Additionally, I am assuming that she might be homeless and lacking family support. Questions to Consider when Interviewing the Client While interviewing the client, I would ask myself which public/social services might best fit this young female’s needs. I would also mentally start addressing her sexual habits and considering when she last had a full physical assessment with laboratory tests and was checked for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). I would also be concerned about her psychological condition and if she suffers from any mental illness. Additionally, I would reflect on how to establish a safe environment for the patient. How to Assist the Client during Planning Identifying the stage of prevention is required to help a person in need. This female needs a secondary prevention. This measure identifies, plans around, and reduces the impact of a current disease (Harkness & DeMarco, 2012, p. 90). As a public health nurse, during...
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...Public health is ‘The science and art of promoting and protecting health and well-being, preventing ill-health and prolonging life through the organized efforts of society’. Public health as we know it today has moved on from what is considered the origins in the 19th century. However the core principles to which it was set up and developed still remain the same. It has always been population based and it has always ensured people stay healthy and avoid getting ill. To understand public health you must look at the developments from the 19th century to modern day, the social reformers who made changes to law and the way people live there lives. Also understand the key factors and strategies used to help evolve it to accommodate modern Brittan. The term public health has been used in Britain since the Victorian period. It was a time of radical change and a period when improving the health of the public was high on the agenda of governments. During this period there were many aspects that resulted in reform to public health. There was an alarming number of mortality statistics for this time. ‘Half of all children in Manchester in the 1830’s died before they reached the age of five’. (Walsh M Stephens 2005 p256) In Liverpool the statistics at this time were no better, labourers were lucky to live past their 15th birthday. Industrialisation had far reaching social effects. It transformed cities from an agrarian society to an industrial one. Combined with industrialisation you...
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...Farmacias Similares (Simi): Company Overview Founded by Victor Gonzalez Torres, Farmacias Similares is a pharmacy chain in Mexico dedicated exclusively to generic medicines, with their merchandise priced at least 30% lower than that of traditional branded medications. Using their publicity campaign slogan, loosely translated as “the same, but cheaper,” the stores targeted their sales at the low-income uninsured/underinsured “base of the pyramid” health care consumers in Mexico. In addition, Gonzalez Torres owned various other companies that did business related to Simi, such as Best Labs, Pharmacy Plastics (which produced pill containers), Pharmacy Transports (in charge of delivering merchandise to the Simi chain,), and SimiSeguros’ (Chu & Garcia-Cuellar, 2007). Simi: Mission, Vision, and Value Ananlysis Mission - Improve the level of human life by offering products and services of quality to all health. Vision - Be recognized as a model of quality, service and confidence, with efficient processes, in a pleasant working environment which generate well-being and pride in belonging. Values – Generosity, Commitment, Service Positive Aspects: As stated by Hill & McShane, a mission statement defines the purpose of the organization and focuses on the needs of the customer. Simi’s mission statement meets this criterion. Hill & McShane also state that a vision statement defines the desired future state of an organization and results in the generation of strategies...
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...Reform: The Importance of a Public Option” by Stephen Gorin. The article discusses the issues that we are now currently dealing with well the House and the Senate debate and try to create the healthcare reform that would make sure that everyone has healthcare coverage. The big issue within this article is creating a level playing field for all the parties: the non covered public, the already covered public, the healthcare companies and the government. As if you didn’t already know this is not the easiest task as everyone wants to have a say on how it is going to be accomplished. One of the big things discussed in this article is the public plan option that is currently being debated in the legislation. Many people don’t feel that it would create a “level playing field”. One person described the public option as "a Trojan horse for government control and the progressive destruction of Americans' private health insurance coverage.” They are stating that there would be no way that with a public option would insurance companies is able to compete with a government public option. They cover what would have to happen to make this plan also work. They stated that to make the public option work that they would have to reduce rates to providers who could in turn refuse to see these patients with this coverage. They then go to discuss that they would have to create a payment system to providers that is equal and they close the gap between private and the public option payment system. ...
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...Discuss the potential impact of public health initiatives (such as Healthy People 2010 and others) on U.S. health care systems In March 23, 2010, Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to offer adequate health services for everyone including a uninsured person. It is an affordable solution of the problem that a large amount of Americans do not have health insurance plans. Americans will fully receive benefits from the law by 2014. It is the effective law to achieve optimum health care service to resolve and prevent perceived deficiencies in healthcare delivery. However, PPACA does not automatically guarantee the high quality and access to health care. The quality of health care in America is far behind compared to many foreign countries. Most of Americans struggle with health care insurances, because the private health care insurance in the U.S. is way more expensive. And, it is not certain if the health care reform is successful. The health insurance policies are too complicated for consumers to choose a suitable plan. Even though the U.S. government is on the right track to work PPACA, Americans still deserve a better health care program. The U.S. does not provide a universal health care system. In my opinion, the federal or at least each state government should provide a universal public health care system. Here are the reasons why the U.S. needed the health care reform and explanation how the U.S. is moving forward to the right direction...
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...As mentioned in the textbook “Health Care Delivery in the United States” under the section “Public Health Every Day” we tend to not think about the affects of public health in our everyday life even though we are surround by it (Leviton, Rhodes & Change, 2012, p.104). After reading this section I realized that this past week from waking up until going to sleep, my daily habits are filled with activities that are associated with public health topics. Upon waking up and brushing my teeth, the water supply from the faucet has fluoride in it. The level of fluoride in the water of Denver, CO was established by the Center for Disease Control and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to help prevent tooth decay and promote oral...
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...The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands access to coverage to millions of Americans, a goal health plans have long supported, but major provisions will raise costs and disrupt coverage for individuals, families, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The broad market reforms outlined in the ACA take effect on January 1, 2014. Individuals and families purchasing insurance in the individual market will be guaranteed coverage for pre-existing conditions, and their premiums cannot vary based on their gender or medical history. There will also be subsidies to help consumers afford the cost of coverage, and new health insurance exchanges will help consumers find the policies that best meet their needs. At the same time, other provisions take effect that will significantly increase the cost of coverage, such as the health insurance tax, minimum essential benefits, and restrictions on age rating. $52 billion in new taxes will be imposed on businesses by mandating that employers provide health insurance. New taxes on drug companies ($27 billion) and medical device makers ($20 billion), as well as new reporting requirements and regulations imposed on physicians, will make access to health care and services more costly and difficult for seniors under Obamacare.The cumulative impact of all of these provisions increases the likelihood that some individuals will choose to purchase insurance only after they become sick or injured, further increasing the cost of coverage for everyone...
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...The principal concern of ethics should be a standardized approach; it is how we as public health professionals ought to operate. “Ethics is concerned with establishing the appropriate way to act and reflecting upon the reasons that justify such appropriate action” (Dawson, 2008). The way in which public health professional explain information is key here. Exaggerating risks would increase health awareness and further encourage health-promoting behaviors. However Withholding key information would lead to more inquiries on whether to trust public health professionals. “The ethics of public health are concerned with the ethical dimensions of professionalism and the moral trust that society bestows on public health professionals to act for the...
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...University of Phoenix Material Evolution of Community and Public Health Nursing Identify a minimum of 3 major events (or influences) in the evolution of community and public health nursing and describe how each event led to advancement of the field. For each event, describe the following: Key health issues at the time Perspectives and goals of community and public health nursing Roles and functions of community and public health nursing Community and public health partnerships at the time |Event or Influence: America’s Colonial Period and the New Republic | |Key health issues |Communicable diseases, environmental hazards, environmental sanitation, concerns for the health and care of | | |the people in the community | |Perspective/goals |The goal was how to prevent, understand, and control diseases | |Role/functions |In 1847, the American Medical Association (AMA) formed a hygiene committee to conduct sanitary surveys and to| | |develop a system to collect vital statistics. (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012, p 25). | |Health partnerships |The Howard Association of New Orleans, Louisiana, responded to periodic yellow fever epidemics...
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...University: NRS – 429V – O103 Date – 02//2/2014 Health promotion is the process of empowering people so they take an active role in improving their own health. It is the art and science of helping people discover motivations to make positive lifestyle changes, and provide support to help insure success this includes promoting physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual health. Lifestyle is key in promoting health, so the goal is to educate, increase motivation, build skills and create an environment where making the positive health choice is the easiest choice. Health promotion is intended to strengthen the skills and capabilities of individuals and communities to adopt positive health choices by providing information and resources to the community so people can take an active role in their health maintenance. The unique knowledge of nurses working in the community and public health specifically, can affect care and treatment of pts. Public health nurses (PHN) with appropriate skills can improve the health of communities and populations. Promoting health is complex and nurses require a range of knowledge, skills and experience to become competent health promoters. Nurses in this role can affect positive health outcomes and improve quality of life by increasing a patient’s knowledge of their condition and supporting them in self-management. Nursing programs need to incorporate a greater emphasis on health promotion as there will be a greater need in the...
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...Public Health and Occupational Health Nursing The history of nursing is one of continual growth and development. The development of public health nursing as a profession is no different. The purpose of this paper is to look at how public health nursing has progressed and examine the impact it has had on contemporary work environments. History of Public Health Nursing Each generation brought with it new challenges, and public health nursing grew, along with other nursing professions, to meet and counteract those challenges. Professional nursing history began with the organizational efforts of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale was born into a wealthy and prominent family in nineteenth century Europe. During the Crimean War, Nightingale, through her population-based epidemiological approach was able to successfully and dramatically reduce mortality rates among soldiers. Nightingale envisioned nurses being formally trained and skilled in the care of the sick, injured, and weak. Nightingale also made clear distinction between nursing focused on caring for the sick and nursing focused on the prevention of illness (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2014). As time progressed, women began to play a more prominent role in society. Educated women and uneducated women alike began entering the workforce. Women of means also began to break free of some of the societal restraints upon them and became more active in public affairs. Lillian Weld, a pioneer of public health nursing...
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...Monica Fourie Student Number: 45918287 PYC4811 Assignment 1: Unique number – 657794 Monica Fourie Student Number: 45918287 657794 PYC4811 Assignment 1: Unique number - CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 1 2. DISCUSSION ................................................................................................................ 1 2.1. History ............................................................................................................................................... 1 2.2. Focus, involvement and aim ............................................................................................................. 1 2.3. Seat of pathology .............................................................................................................................. 2 2.4. Models .............................................................................................................................................. 2 2.5. Methods of evaluating interventions for long-term success ............................................................. 3 3. CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................. 3 REFERENCES .................................................................................................................... 4 Monica Fourie Student...
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