.... Health Promotion Pamphlet Critique Health Promotion Pamphlet Critique The function of a health promotion brochure is to present information to the community on different topics with the intention of improving the health and well-being of individuals through the implementation of health education. In order for a brochure to be effective, the message must be clear, precise, and totally understood by the individual. Some health promoting brochures can provide incentives to maintaining wellness promoting behaviors. Brochures outlining strategies for preventing diseases such as diabetes can provide information to attain a stable lifestyle. The information however, has to be properly presented to get those results. According to Jamison (2004) implementation of even one healthy behavior can have an ubiquitous health benefit, it is therefore suggested that suitably formulated health information brochures inform and encourage the adoption of healthy behaviors (p 262). The title of the brochure is Diabetes and it is meant to educate those who want to learn more about the disease. Source and Topic Diabetes is a major problem in the Unite States. The total prevalence of diabetes in the Unite States, all ages is 18.2 million people which accounts for 6.3% of the population that has diabetes. Of this only 13.0 million has been diagnosis and 5.2 million undiagnosed cases (Center for Disease Control). Diabetes shortens life expectancy by about...
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...teach about how smoking affects your child. Mother of Prachi is 26 years old Indian women whereas father is 28 years old who is born in Nepal. They have been married since three years and living together since one year because Prachi father has been in the United States only one year. They both work in fast food restaurant as server with minimum wage. They both have built their schedule to take care of her daughter and work fulltime. Husband has been completed of Bachelor of Science degree whereas mother has been completed only high school. While the author was talking to mother about if anyone smoke in their house, Prachi father was silent for a minute...
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...Environmental Factors and Health Promotion Pamphlet Brianna Martinez Grand Canyon University Environmental Factors and Health Promotion Pamphlet The environmental learning pamphlet discussed with the parent was on the topic of secondhand smoking effects on infants & children. The mother was 30year old single mother of a 4month old infant. The mother comes from a Hispanic background and she is a non-smoker however has a 32 year old Hispanic boyfriend who is a current smoker, who smokes approximately one pack per day. Health promotion & maintenance was discussed with mother on the harmful and potential deadly effects secondhand smoking can cause on her infant. The mother was aware on the effects of smoking around children but thought it was “okay” since her boyfriend smokes outside and never around the baby. The mother was educated on the harmful chemicals her boyfriend still carries when near or around the baby and how it spreads throughout the house. The mother reported not having any conciliation the effects it had on her baby even though the boyfriend did not smoke near the infant. The mother was very receptive of the information and quite shocked the harmful effects secondhand smoking had on her infant even while not smoking next to her infant. The mother displayed a great learning response and was going to take initiatives to help her boyfriend quit smoking and to completely stop all smoking near her household or events the child attended. Overall the teaching went...
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...caught my eye at this table was a big water jug. It sat on top of the table filled with smoke buds. There was a girl and a guy running the table and they explained how volunteers had collected all the smoke buds around campus in just two hours. It completely blew my mind that they had filled a whole water jug with just campus smoke buds and in just 2 hours. It really made me think about how many smoke buds I see. Not only on school campus or at home but on the streets as well. They’re so common its like people don’t even pay attention and it’s sad. The speakers also talked about the death rates and the risks that could come with smoking, such as lung cancer and throat cancer. This was something I was all too familiar with, but something they did do that also made me kind of think was talk about the help we can offer to those who smoke. They gave away quit smoking packs that had gum, notes and reading material. They explained how some people who can’t quit for themselves sometimes quit for others they love. It really made me think back to my dad. He knew how much I hated the smell of cigarettes and how id always break them in half when I saw them In his car. He tried to quit a few times and finally did a few years back. When I was old enough to ask why he quit he explained how he saw the way it affected his kids and it made him think about his dad and the toll it took on him. Maybe if he weren’t a smoker he would’ve still been here to enjoy his grandkids and great grandkids. He also...
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... * Being around smoke can interfere with the normal functioning of heart, blood and vascular system. * Leads to poor lung development (meaning that their lungs never grow to their full potential). * Studies show sudden infant death syndrome occurs in infants that are around smoke. * * Insert your second reason here. * Insert your third reason here. Secondhand smoke is the smoke a smoker breathes out and that comes from the tip of a burning cigarette, pipe and cigar. It contains about 4,000 chemicals. Many which are dangerous and can cause cancer. Anytime children breathe in secondhand smoke they are exposed to these chemicals. Do you want your child to get an infection or possibly die? Then please stop smoking! QUIT! Keep your child away from secondhand smoke. Secondhand smoke is the smoke a smoker breathes out and that comes from the tip of a burning cigarette, pipe and cigar. It contains about 4,000 chemicals. Many which are dangerous and can cause cancer. Anytime children breathe in secondhand smoke they are exposed to these chemicals. Do you want your...
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...The warm summer sun is baking my skin like bread, the cool ocean breeze is whipping my hair, and I am floating on the calm cool waves gliding to the mushy surface of the sand. I can feel the burning hot sand cooking my feet like steak to a medium rare. The sand feels like I am stepping in lava with every step comes more pain, which makes me yearn to get to the cool salty sensation of the ocean. I can feel shells piercing through my skin like sharp knives poised and glad to kill. Seeing the vicious, dirty, irritating seagulls scouting for food, hurtling to their target disrupting families’ enjoyable time. I can see little children’s smile brightening the day, as they build sand castles with blue and green buckets, adding all kinds of beautiful twisted unique shells, and adding a big red flag to the top with their families company. The sleepy ocean waves pulling back and pushing forward calmly as if it suddenly got tired of causing mishap, and knocking people their boards, but is now bored and at ease. The bright summer sun is burning my eyes out, melting everyone to a pile of goop. I can taste the nasty salty water stinging my mouth, making me want something strong enough to wash away the nasty taste of salt forever making it vanish. Tasting spicy yellow hot peppers scattered around my mouth with cold smoked turkey, green sweet peppers, scrumptious tomato, and white provolone cheese mixed together leaving me to savor the yummy taste of a Wawa sub. Then washing it down with...
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...I’m Against the Statewide Smoking Ban By: Michael Spatz Imagine you walk into a restaurant and are seated in the smoking area. Knowing that this bothers you, you choose to sit there anyway. A smoker comes in, sits down in the booth next to you and lights up. Believe it or not, this is a common situation that happens for a lot of people. What would you do? Michael Spatz claims that “a statewide smoking ban is not what the state of Kansas needs right now.” (211.) I both agree and disagree with his claim. I agree with his claim due to contrasting and personal experience that Spatz suggest in the article I then disagree with his reasons for the smoking ban, because though I am not one that is bothered much by smoking, but the smell, I believe that everyone had the right to smoke if they please. In Spatz’s article, his first claim is that “Bars will lose the business of smokers, which in some cases, is enough to close down the establishment.” (211.) I completely disagree with this statement. There is quite a controversy about the smoking ban, and seeing as how most Bars allow smoking, I can see how passing this ban statewide would affect most owners. The one place that smokers know they are welcome are the Bars and if they can’t go there to smoke, where will they go? Not all Bars will lose business because of the smoking ban, but many have. Though not all people go to the bars to smoke a cigarette, but maybe to have a few drinks or so, then the smoking ban may not have such an...
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...children in the future. 2. Example: “David I thought I told you to clean up your toys.” “I was going to, but I had to beat a gym leader in my Pokémon game. Look at the new Pokémon I caught!” Type of Fallacy: Red Herring/Smokescreen Explanation: My son uses this fallacy with me at least once a day. If he gets in trouble for something or does not do something I ask him to he either lies, or he changes the subject. I feel that this tactic is very popular with parents and their children. 3. Example: Since I am young and in good health and if I continue a healthy lifestyle for myself I won’t suffer health problems from smoking. Type of Fallacy: Wishful Thinking Explanation: I am only 24 years old and have not had any health problems because I smoke. I know the risks, but it does not make me think I need to quit smoking. Normally health problems from smoking effects people as they get older not at the age I...
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...United States from cigarette smoking. This gruesome statistic tells us that with illegal drugs, alcohol, motor vehicle, suicides and murders combined; cigarette smoking is still the number one contributor. In 1963, Herbert A. Gilbert was not aware of these kinds of statistics, however, he was on the brink of an invention that would revolutionize the way we smoke cigarettes almost fifty years later. The invention of the Electronic Cigarette [also known as the e-cig] was patented in 1963 by Herbert A. Gilbert, “The present invention relates to a smokeless non-tobacco cigarette and has for an object to provide a safe and harmless means for and method of smoking by replacing burning tobacco and paper with heated, moist, flavored air; or by inhaling warm medication into the lungs in case of a respiratory ailment under direction of a physician.” (Electronic Cigarettes, 2009) Unfortunately for Herbert, in the early 1960s cigarette smoking was not yet the threat it has become today. People just didn’t see a need to stop smoking. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Tobacco Company had always marketed towards women; smoking was a sexy thing. As one can see from the photograph, the young lady is beautiful, slender and happy. Throughout the middle of the 1960s big Tobacco Company’s began targeting the men and using advertisements such as cowboys and men with tattoos. This was to ensure your confidence while smoking that cigarette; sadly, this was just how smoking had become perceived. Subsequently...
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...the price of good A, there is only a 0.38% change in quantity demanded, which indicates that consumers did not respond much to the increase in price,” Mr. Marcelino said. If the elasticity coefficient is greater than 1, then consumers’ reaction to the change in price is high. Mr. Marcelino pointed out that demand for necessities tends to be inelastic while demand for luxuries, elastic. When there are close substitutes for the goods or services, demand is also elastic. Except for cigarettes. Demand for these products has been noticeably inelastic. “This means that even if prices are raised, consumers, or smokers for that matter, will still consume almost the same number of sticks or packs of cigarettes. This is because cigarette smoking is a form of addiction and smokers cannot easily...
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...SMOKING IN PUBLIC PLACES Have you ever been in outdoor restaurant, and there was someone bothering you by smoking while you are eating?, what is your impression?. Smoking in public places must be removed or forbidden, because, people cannot have an healthy life, it wastes of money, and it wastes time in our life. First of all, people could not have an healthy life. For example, most of the smokers have an unusual problems in their bodies causing a lot of disease. Moreover, according to the results of smoking outdoor, majority of smokers transfer their disease for other innocent lives. Second, as my cousin always says to me, “Smoking is only a waste of money”. For instance, many smokers are spending five dollars for each day, and that only for one box of cigarette. They did not realized that all of these sums will become such as a huge amount of money. Third, as we know, to use the time in your life in things that are useful instead wastes it in smoking is surly better. For example, who has an addiction in smoking will uses his time in smoking and kill his self gradually. Furthermore, majority of the smokers are wondering why is hard for us to live long time as many people as did, absolutely the answer because they are causing harms for their lungs, and all their bodies. All in all, this topic has many opinions are different among the people, but my thoughts are stander in this argument. To smoke in public places is not good because, the people cannot have a healthy...
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...explore the influence of two types of television programs: narratives (dramas, comedies, and soap operas) versus nonnarratives (light entertainment, sports, documentaries, and news), on smokers’ reactions to antismoking advertisements. In preexposure interviews, daily smokers (n ¼ 779) were asked to watch a particular television program they usually watched. Postexposure interviews were conducted within 3 days of exposure. Results indicated that placing an antismoking ad within a program in which the viewer is focused on the narrative flow of a story may lead to reduced immediate cognitive and emotional impact of the ad and reduced intentions to quit, especially among those for whom the ad is most relevant, such as those preparing to quit smoking. Placing antismoking advertising in light entertainment, sports, documentaries, and news programs may make scarce public health dollars go further. In recent years there has been substantial focus on which types of antismoking advertisements (ads) may be most influential (Biener, 2002; Biener, McCallumKeeler, & Nyman, 2000; Goldman & Glantz, 1998; Pechmann, Zhao, Goldberg, & Reibling, 2003; Witte & Allen, 2000), with...
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...product and much of if any side affect have been noted through some studies. In the ECLAT 12-month study, which is double-blind, controlled, randomized clinical study to evaluate smoking reduction, smoking abstinence and adverse events in smokers (Caponettto etal, 2013). The study demonstrated e-cigarettes hold some validity in ‘reducing number of cigarette smoked, and can lead to enduring tobacco abstinence…” E Cigarettes are operated by batteries that heats up the liquid solution of which some contains zero nicotine, propylene glycol, and other chemicals. When consumers puff on the element this triggers the vapor to be heated giving off a mist (vapor) which consumers inhale and exhale like traditional cigarettes. E Cigarettes are made to look and feel like their real counterpart and ‘simulate the visual, sensory, and behavioral aspects of smoking traditional cigarettes (Caponnetto etal, 2013). Without the combustion or burning of the tobacco leaves, e cigarettes have been proven through some studies to have positive effects on consumers as well as aiding in smoking cessation (Scott, 2013). Here is a diagram that shows the anatomy of e cigarettes from www.ecigaretteslist.com. Market Analysis Company When a close friend (smoked for 25 years) who was able to quit smoking with the aid of e cigarettes back in 2010, IVape is launched to with the mission to help those smokers who are struggling to quit and have unsuccessfully tried other FDA approved...
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...The Process of Quitting Smoking Cigarette is a common item of human society. As early as several centuries BC, the Maya began to smoke the burning tobacco. Columbus discovered the new world in 1492 and found Indian people smoking tobacco. After that, tobacco has become commercial crops gradually. Cigarette was born. In the past 200 years, smoking has become an important social means. Not only adults from different industries and different class smoke, but more and more minor students also start smoking. To be honest, I hate smoking. Every time I smell someone is smoking, I always frown and leave the smoking area as soon as possible. But by my side, there are many friends, classmates and family members are smokers. But why do they enjoy smoking? “Nicotine is the drug in tobacco that causes addiction. It is absorbed and enters the bloodstream, through the lungs when smoke is inhaled… Nicotine is a psychoactive drug with stimulant effects on the electrical activity of the brain. It also has calming effects, especially at times of stress, as well as effects on hormonal and other systems throughout the body… Smoking doses of nicotine causes activation of "pleasure centers" in the brain, which may explain the pleasure, and addictiveness of smoking” (“Smoking: how to stop”). This paragraph explains the reason for smoking addiction. It seems that abstain from cigarette is really a hard task. My grandfather, however, had an experience about giving up smoking successfully. My grandfather’s...
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...(e-cigarettes) have earned considerable attention recently as an alternative to smoking tobacco, other group of researchers have become fascinated about the impact on the health of users, effects, and usefulness of it compared to the natural cigarette which has surfaced proposals on whether it is better than conventional cigarettes. At the beginning of the research of Murray Laugesen about whether Electronic cigarettes, he said “Electronic cigarettes, without tobacco, flame or smoke, claim to be cigarette substitutes and to deliver nicotine safely”. In his paper he questioned whether these claims were true, and this is also the groups aim. Many people have pondered on this topic and our group is just one of the many who are pushing to improve the study. As high school students, we are becoming aware of these matters and just like Murray Laugesen who was curious on whether the claims of Electronic Cigarettes are true. The study from the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institute of Health tested the hypothesis on 384 heavy smokers who have frequently tried to quit and tested whether male or females would prefer when they most likely would like to smoke and how it hindered them from stopping their habitual act of smoking. Results show that people who have become dependent on smoking especially when the subject is in a bad mood. They say that a bad mood enhances the satisfaction of smoking. Thus when the subject is experiencing problems, the craving for a puff is greater...
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