...26-42. Approximately 60% of the group is married. The group is willing to pay up to $4,000 dollars per individual for their annual premium. Castor Collins must weigh the many considerations when deciding to insure Constructlt, the premiums employees are willing to pay, risks of providing a certain plan or service, and the expected utilization (University of Phoenix, 2014). In order to maintain a profit Castor Collins needs to take all of these aspects into consideration. Thirty-two percent of the individuals at Constructlt have a working profile, which involves significant physical activity, and only 25% have a working profile with moderate activity. When determining which insurance plan is best for Constructlt it is best to look at the health risk factors of the group. Thirty-eight percent of the group, which breaks down to 170 men and 210 women, has no major health risks. Conversely, 18% of the workers, 10% men and 8% of the women are smokers. The principal health risk factor affecting the group is obesity. Of the Constructlt group obesity affects 39% of the group. Hence, increasing the risk for obesity related diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes. Due to the health risk factors utilization will increase with many of the services such as diagnostic imaging, prescription medications, and outpatient physician visits (University of Phoenix, 2014). There are three different plans for Constructlt to choose from, making the right decision for all...
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...mostly do not follow the operational substance of the contract. In the case of SKI, the advertising revenues is recognised and recorded in the period in which the clicks are made or the views of the ads. However, extra commissions are paid to sales individuals who sign longer contracts that meet minimum revenue targets. In the case of the CC, the company earns the revenues through providing corporate social networks development and hosting services. However, there are revenues for the up-front fee associated with the development is recognized as the development is completed and the system is available to the customers. What fraud risk factors should she consider discussing with her team at the next fraud brainstorming meeting Fraud risk factor is a condition that tracks the 3 conditions of the fraud triangle. Besides, the fraud risks factors do not show that fraud exists. However, they indicate the warning signs where it does apply. First, is regarding the rationalizing or attitude where you cannot possibly know with certainty the individual ethical beliefs and standards. In case,...
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...Risk Factors of Behavior Risk Factors of Behavior ECE 201 Debra Lawrence Dec.03, 2012 Children should be heard not only seen. Parents as well as teachers always look to see what a child is doing. Do they ever stop to listen and ask questions? It’s always good to ask a child questions like; “How was your day? Did everything go fine at school today? Is everything going good at home and questions like that.” If you get the discipline thing right, it is so much easier being a parent-and being a child. Sometimes we wish there was a way to avoid the stress and frustration that can occur when parents and children have conflicting ideas about rules and regulations. Why are some children more challenging than others? Challenging behavior is any behavior that interferes with children’s learning, development, and success at play, is harmful to the child, other children, or adults and puts a child at high risk for later social problems or school failure (education.com). A child with An emotional and mental illness needs to be handled with kid gloves. Children with these illnesses can become irate, out of control, physical, sad, drop in grades and withdrawn. Mental Illness can cause a child to act out because they feel that they don’t belong. Some kids are more challenging because of their life at home and at school. That’s when asking your child how was their day comes in play. “Children with behavior problems often find themselves rejected...
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...Phoenix Health Care Informatics HCS482 Richard Ong September 23, 2013 Adverse Trend and Data Management Part I: Step by step guide: Adverse Trend: Immobility. Immobility in hospitalized patients is one of the main risk factors contributing to the development of pressure ulcers. Objective: Identify risk factors related to complications secondary to immobility such as pressure ulcers on the integumentary system. Immobility also leads to other adverse effects affecting cardiovascular system, respiratory system, and musculoskeletal system as well. The assessment is performed on admission data, then once a week. The risk assessment scale used was the Risk Assessment Pressure Sore (RAPS) scale, which includes the following variables; general physical condition, activity, mobility, moisture, food intake, fluid intake, sensory perception, friction and shear, and body temperature (Lindgren & Unosson, 2004). Results: 25 % of patients developed pressure ulcers. Non-blanchable erythema was the most common pressure ulcer noted among these patients. The majority of these patients were significantly older, and hospitalized for a longer period of time. In the analysis using variables included in the RAPS scale, immobility emerged as a major risk factor. Conclusion: Immobility is the main cause of pressure ulcer development among adult hospitalized patients. Part II: After reviewing patient’s charts and documentation in 4 west, it is concluded that: 37% charts with...
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...OF THE RISKS CAN COSTCO ACQUIRE THE #3 KMART? ABSTRACT The retail business is very competitive. Because the retail industry provides products and or services for the needs, wants, and sometimes feelings of the consumer it can be hard to determine what they like and don’t like. Moreover, with the economy, which by the way affects all businesses, you just do not have an exact science on how things will turn out. Industry businessman, economist etc. can only make assumptions based on occurrences. So, if you are in a business to make a profit, and satisfy stakeholders you need to have a plan. Sometimes the plan calls for mergers and acquisitions. Mergers and acquisitions can have a positive and/or negative effect. “According to a KPMG study, 83% of all mergers and acquisitions failed to produce any benefit for the shareholders and over half actually destroyed value.”(http://www.itapintl.com/...the-impact-of), to be a good CFO you must do the research to determine if acquiring another company will be beneficial. This report will identify the risk factors of the target acquisition company Kmart and the risk factors present in the parent company Costco. Our team will then show how these risks can be mitigated. BECAUSE OF THE RISKS CAN COSTCO ACQUIRE THE #3 KMART? KMART RISKS/MITIAGATION Many investors such as Costco may be unaware of all the risks associated with investing in a specific company. Providing current and future investors with risk factors allows...
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...SUICIDE RISK ASSESSMENT GUIDE REFERENCE MANUAL INTRODUCTION The Suicide Risk Assessment Pocket Card was developed to assist clinicians in all areas but especially in primary care and the emergency room/triage area to make an assessment and care decisions regarding patients who present with suicidal ideation or provide reason to believe that there is cause for concern. This reference guide provides more specific information and the rationale for the sections on the pocket card. The sections of the guide correspond with the sections of the card. The Reference Guide may also be used as a teaching aid for new providers, residents and students at all levels and disciplines as well as other caregivers. This introduction provides general information regarding the nature and prevalence of suicidal behaviors and factors associated with increased risk for suicide and suicide attempts. Suicidal thoughts and behaviors (including suicide attempts and death by suicide) are commonly found at increased rates among individuals with psychiatric disorders, especially major depressive disorder, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, PTSD, anxiety, chemical dependency, and personality disorders (e.g., antisocial and borderline). A history of a suicide attempt is the strongest predictor of future suicide attempts, as well as death by suicide. Intentional self-harm (i.e., intentional self-injury without the expressed intent to die) is also associated with long-term risk for repeated attempts...
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...GOLDACRE BJP 2000, 176:266-272. Access the most recent version at DOI: 10.1192/bjp.176.3.266 Suicide in psychiatric hospital in-patients : Risk factors and their predictive power References This article cites 0 articles, 0 of which you can access for free at: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/176/3/266#BIBL To obtain reprints or permission to reproduce material from this paper, please write to permissions@rcpsych.ac.uk http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/eletter-submit/176/3/266 http://bjp.rcpsych.org/ on April 6, 2012 Published by The Royal College of Psychiatrists Reprints/ permissions You can respond to this article at Downloaded from To subscribe to The British Journal of Psychiatry go to: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/site/subscriptions/ B R I T I S H J O U R N A L O F P S YC H I AT RY ( 2 0 0 0 ) , 1 7 6 , 2 6 6 ^ 2 7 2 Suicide in psychiatric hospital in-patients Risk factors and their predictive power JOHN POWELL, JOHN GEDDES, JONATHAN DEEKS, MICHAEL GOLDACRE and KEITH HAW TON Background Psychiatric hospitalinpatients are knownto be at high riskof highriskof suicide, yetthereislittlereliableknowledge of risk factors or their predictive power. Aims To identify risk factors for suicide in psychiatric hospital in-patients and to evaluate their predictive power in detecting people at risk of suicide. Method Using a case ^ control design, 112 people who committed suicide while in-patients in psychiatric hospitals were compared with112 randomly selected controls.Univariate...
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...(suicidal ideations and behavior) in the last 50 years. Suicide continues to be the second leading cause of death among 10 to 24-year old?s globally with many more adolescents contemplating and attempting suicide (World Health Organization, 2010). The slow progress of knowledge generated in the study of suicidality may be related to the fragmented approach taken to investigate what puts an individual at risk (Stewart, et al., 2017). Research has identified multiple suicidal risk factors such as psychopathology, suicidal ideations, stressful life events, poor academic performance, and low familial and social support....
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...Suicide Factors Suicide is the act committed by a person towards himself with the aim of ending his own life. It is a distressing phenomenon, which brings negative effect on the close relatives and friends. There are a lot of factors, which may lead to committing suicide. In this case, depression may be one of the most powerful causes for an individual to harm himself. Thus, one may regard the suicide to be the perfect way out of pain and suffering. Besides, global assessment done by World Health Organization, stated that the rate of suicide has risen since 1950, as much as 268 per cent among young males from 15 to 24 years (Perlman, Neufeld, Martin, Goy, Hirdes, Neufeld, Martin, Goy & Hirdes). Therefore, the suicide risk assessment is used in order to learn more about the person, about their needs and stressors. There are various kinds of assessments, including quizzes and questionnaires. Additionally, I have found the suicide risk assessment developed by Sandra Cushing and Susan Boyd, and identified the chief risk factors. When analyzing the assessment, I concluded that among them there are those factors specific to depression, for instance, family history and mental disorder, severe depression, history of previous attempts to commit suicide, anxiety, feeling of loneliness and hopelessness, suicidal intention and plan, command hallucinations, homicidal thoughts. Among other factors for consideration there were also family history of suicide, physical illness, different...
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...M. Niedermeier Suicide among African Americans is a neglected topic. Social workers practice in both clinical and nonchnical settings, and as the largest occupational group of mental health professionals, they have a unique opportunity to reach this underserved group. However, little is known about social work's empirical knowledge base for recognition and treatment of suicidal behavior among African Americans.The authors performed a systematic critical review of published articles by social workers on African American suicide and suicidal behavior, to ascertain the state of social worker's contribution to and knowledge of suicide risk factors and effective treatments. They conducted Web-based (for example. Social Work Abstracts, PsycINFO, PubMed,JSTOR) and manual searches of suicide research conducted by social work investigators and pubhshed in peer-reviewed journals from 1980 to 2005. References cited in the articles were used to identify candidate articles. According to the search results, social workers contributed only 11 empirical research articles focusing on African American suicide or nonfatal suicidal behavior. Risk factors for suicide are reviewed, and the implications for clinical social work practice and research are addressed. KEY WORDS: African Americans; clinical knowledge; ethnic minority populations; suicide S uicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide; in 2002 alone, approximately 877,000 deaths worldwide were due to suicide (World Health...
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...major symptoms of the depression. Women with suicidal ideations are differentiated from those who attempt and commit suicide. Suicidal ideations and suicide attempts are strong risk factors for completed suicides. The risk of suicide is approximately ten times greater in people who have a history of suicide attempts and seven times greater in people who have a history of suicidal ideations (Doucet & Letourneau, 2009). Suicide has been defined as an escape from the self, or a destructive behavioral response to blocked escape (Baumeister, 1990). Suicidal ideations are conceptualized as thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that range from brief uncertain thoughts of suicide to detailed and properly thought out plans to terminate one’s own life (Doucet & Letourneau,...
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...Draft for Suicide Prevention Paper by Mariegold H. Bulquerin-Robles. Suicide is the third leading cause of deaths among 10-19 year olds in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with males (81%) more common than females (19%). Foremost risk factor for suicide among youths is mental disorders, whether diagnosed or undiagnosed, with depression as the most common of the mental disorders associated with suicide. Other risk factors include substance or alcohol abuse, exposure to suicide or history thereof, exposure to violence, impulsive behavior and life-changing stress. The stressors that most youths encounter that may overwhelm their ability to cope include disciplinary problems, interpersonal loss, family violence, sexual orientation confusion, physical and sexual abuse, and being the victim of bullying. Any combinations of these risk factors increase the likelihood of suicide among youths, and identification of these factors help chances to identify those at risk. Warning signs such as changes in behavior, social withdrawal, erratic sleeping and eating patterns, low self-esteem, poor hygiene and loss of interest in personal upkeep should be paid attention, and talking or writing about dying or killing one’s self, along with prior suicide attempts are the foremost warning sign that signals that one is contemplating suicide, and should not be ignored. Primary prevention for suicide includes educating parents, educators, coaches...
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...Many people may say that suicide is a form of escape from fears and or depression in life. In reality, suicide mainly occurs because of different risk factors such as alcohol or drugs. Parent suicide is extremely rare. Many parents can be great role models for their children, so the cause of their suicide, the affect on others, and the recovery process from this horrific tragedy is uncommonly known. The suicide of a parent can have traumatic effects on many people, causing other suicidal risks to increase. There are many methods of committing suicide, including hanging, electrocution, cutting the body with a knife, gun shots, poisoning, and self-starvation (Ratnarajah, et al. 2). Suicide is not inherited, but once it occurs within a family,...
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...Higher Risks of Suicide among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Youth in America Teela Oxendine-Cummings CST5334 – Ethnic and Cultural Awareness Capella University Abstract This paper presents an overview of what is known about suicide and suicidal behavior among LGB youth. For the intention of this paper, the term youth is generally defined as people age 15 through 24. In developing this paper, the learner reviewed the relevant literature published from 1996 through 2011; researched suicide prevention and mental health support programs, and researched services for LGBT youth. After summarize research findings about the higher risk of suicidal behavior for LGBT youth, the paper explores risk and protective factors for this group and provides suggestions to the field that is used to reduce suicidal behavior among LGBT youth. Table of Contents Research Paper Title…………………………………………………………1 Higher Risks of Suicide among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) youth in America…1 Abstract …………………………………………………. 2 Table of Contents………………………………………..3-4 Introduction…..…………………………………………..5 Overview on Suicide ……………………………5 Illustration of the LGBT Youth………….............5-6 Sexual Orientation and Suicide………………...6-7 Scope of the Problem : Suicidal Behaviors ………….7 Suicide Deaths Among LGBT Youth…………...7 Suicide Attempts Among LGBT Youth…………7-8 Suicide Ideation Among LGBT Youth………….8 Conclusion on Suicidal Behaviors of LGBT...
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...Teen suicide in male Native American teens Elizabeth Nather Teen suicide in male Native American teens Community can be interpreted and defined in a variety of ways depending on the group, it’s purpose, size, their interests, makeup, history, and bonds. Some communities have a history together while others form for just a short period of time. Because of these variables, a community can exist for different reasons, and have a unique make up with its own particular standards and goals. While one community may exist to counsel its members short term, another may have existed for many years with the goal of promoting future generations and preserving the history and traditions of their community. Webster defines community as, “a group of people with a common background or with shared interests within a society (Meriam Webster, 2010). The Native American Indians are an identified community. They share a common history and have shared interests within their society. Theirs is a unique culture with rich traditions and beliefs that have been passed on through many generations; a culture very different from many typical US ones. Historically, Native American communities have encouraged interdependence among Indian youth, families, and community connections (Long, et al.,2006). As these communities foster interdependence, many Native American youth are faced with a one sided knowledge of American society. The reservation is all they know so they cannot acclimate to...
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