...1. Assess your community’s access to health care technology and determine how that access (or lack thereof) impacts your community economically. For people living in the rural areas, the distance to main metropolitan centres often places restrictions on access to essential services, including specialist healthcare. Telemedicine provides one possible answer. Many different terms such as telehealth, telecare, online health and E-health have been used but they all have a common meaning, i.e. the use of information and communication technologies to deliver health care services at a distance. The motivation for investigating the use of telemedicine for different clinical problems include large distances between patients and specialists, isolated health professionals requiring specialist support and/or education, and situations where there is no other alternative, for example space flight or patients at sea, as well as the pervasive and pragmatic issue of cost. Are health care dollars better spent on sending the clinician to the patient, bringing the patient to the clinician, or by facilitating the consultations using telemedicine? Modern advances in information communication technologies have seen developments in the different mechanisms available for conducting telemedicine, from Morse code to the ordinary telephone and more recently the Internet. The different telecommunication networks required to support these communication technologies have also advanced...
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...Miles leaves his public school in Florida to seek a “great perhaps” in a new boarding which he chooses to attend and in that school he manages to find his first actual friends and the first “love of his life”. You see miles in public school never had any friends and he hated it. So obviously in boarding school Miles had a lot of new things to try, including cigarettes and alcohol.And even though Miles got into some trouble Miles managed to go from this guy who keeps to himself and doesn’t have any friends to a guy who has several “real friends” and the love of his life. In this book miles matured in certain aspects of the story He kind of goes from Miles the shy friendless guy to Pudge the non friendless guy who’s pretty content all the time.Pudge basically went from adolescence...
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...SPEECH TITLE: Multiple sclerosis: What is it? SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform my audience of the possible causes of Multiple sclerosis and how the disease effects the body. THESIS STATEMENT/CENTRAL IDEA: Multiple sclerosis is a disease that affects the body’s central nervous system, which results in a myriad of symptoms. Although its specific cause is unknown, it is thought that a person’s distance to the equator, smoking, viruses, and genetics may be possible triggers for MS. INTRODUCTION: 1. I never got to see my grandma walk. By the time I was born she was basically wheelchair-ridden and had live-in nurses to care for her. I actually called her Boo-Boo because I didn’t understand why she couldn’t walk. My parents told me it was because...
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...Chapter 14 Online Quiz 1 Content ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Assistive Technology Tips [opens in new window] Instructions Description | | Instructions | | Multiple Attempts | This Test allows multiple attempts. | Force Completion | This Test can be saved and resumed later. | * Test/Survey Status Question 1 1. Which of the following sexually transmitted infections is a sexually active teenager most likely to have? Answer | a. | AIDS | | b. | genital herpes (381) | | c. | VD | | d. | syphilis | 1 points Question 2 1. A century ago: Answer | a. | there was no such thing as adolescence. | | b. | adolescence began later. (361) | | c. | few teenage girls married. | | d. | adolescence began earlier biologically and ended later sociologically. | 1 points Question 3 1. What has the greatest influence on who a person’s first sexual partner is? Answer | a. | religion | | b. | ethnicity | | c. | cultural norms | | d. | nationality | 1 points Question 4 1. Why are adolescents less susceptible to respiratory ailments? Answer | a. | The total volume of blood decreases. | | b. | Overall, muscle strength doubles. | | c. | The lymphoid system decreases in size. | | d. | The pulse increases. | 1 points...
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...county located in the state of Florida. As of the 2010 census, the population was 1,229,226, making it the fourth most populous county in Florida. Its county seat and largest city is Tampa. Hillsborough County is included in the Tampa – St. Petersburg – Clearwater, Florida Metropolitan statistical area. Hillsborough County was created on January 25, 1834, from Alachua and Monroe counties, during the US territorial (1822 – 1845). It was named for Willis Hill, the Earl of Hillsborough, who served as British Secretary of State for the colonies from 1768 to 1772. The counties 1834 boundaries were much wider and included eight of the present day counties: Charlotte County, Desoto, Hardee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, and Sarasota County. The last significant change in Hillsborough County’s borders was the separation of its western section to create Pinellas County in 1911 (Wikipedia, 2015) On New Year’s Day in 1914, the St. Petersburg – Tampa Airboat line initiated the first scheduled commercial airline service in history, from St. Petersburg to Tampa. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1266 mi.² of which 1020 mi.² is land, and 246 mi.² is water. There is approximately 158.27 miles of shoreline on Tampa Bay. The county’s unincorporated area approximately 888 mi.², or more than 84% of the total land area. Municipalities account for 163 mi.². The modern boundaries of the county place it midway along the west coast of Florida. A narrow strip of Hillsborough...
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... nationalist agenda.As critical as it is to state,its not the fault of Trump or even of much of his racist supporters for thinking the way they do.Prejudice principally affects a person when it is being directed at he/she, but being conscious of being the one using discriminatory bias is not instinctive.However,there is still a resolution for preventing this close-minded generation from relentlessly absorbing this negative energy. Creating programs to unite youth from different social groups is what a city like Boston needs.An article on (BostonGlobe.com) shed light on the occasional subject matter of whether or not Boston is considered a “racist city”. Columnist Rene Graham who has lived in Boston for 30 years now writes ‘having lived in a Florida community where a neighbor flew a Confederate flag in front of his home, I felt somewhat inoculated from whatever Boston could toss my way..Boston taught me the tough lesson that racism was more than a treasonous flag snapping in a stiff breeze.’She later states ‘During my early years in Boston, some stores would keep certain items, like black hair care products or hip-hop CDs, behind its counters, assuming that customers of such goods were more likely to steal them.’This testimony leaves the impression of Boston not having the best reputation with ethnical justice and shapes the idea that Boston has not changed much since the Boston Busing era in the 1970’s.Likewise, young muslim communities and Latino communities are pressured to fit in...
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...Week 2 Assignment Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection (Part 1 of the Programmatic Assessment) Fleurette Duverglas University of Phoenix NUR/405 - HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: THEORY AND PRACTICE Professor Sharon Baker November 17, 2014 Windshield Survey and Reflection Introduction The fundamental objective of conducting a community assessment is to attain the complete scenario of the region and identify the requirements of the specific community. This assignment is reflection of my windshield survey conducted in North Miami Beach. The client includes a family that consists of five members. The assessment of the community is based on precise and inclusive examination of various aspects that includes history, health care issues of the region, data on the population of community, mediums of communication available, vital statistics, governmental efforts, and attitude and perception of the community members. The community health nursing requires a holistic approach, and the selected five member family needs to be considered with respect to. (Annerbäck, 2012). Community is specifically defined as the “social group of any volume whose members inhabits in specified locality, share government, and often have a similar cultural and historical heritage”. Furthermore, community health can be understood as congregation of combined requirements through identification of problems and administration behaviors within the community itself...
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...Jamaica 1 Overview of Country Jamaica is an island nation in the West Indies. The capital of Jamaica is Kingston. It lies about 480 miles south of Florida and is the third largest island in the Caribbean Sea. The only two island that are larger that is Cuba and Hispaniola. (The World Book Encyclopedia vol 11) Jamaica was inhabited by the Arawak Indians, who were the first people to live in Jamaica named the island Xaymaca, which means land of wood and water. They based their communites on fishing, hunting, and small scale cultivation of cassava. Due to the appearance of the Spanish the Arawak Indians disappeared in 70-80 years. The disruption of the economic system, new diseases, and migration decimated the population. When the Spanish took over the island they were disappointed with the absence of gold on the island the Spanish used Jamaica as a base for supporting the conquest of the Americas, with its treasures of gold and silver. (www.jamaicans.com) In 1655, Jamaica was captured by the British expedition led by Admirals Penn and Venables and they gain possession in 1670. It was very little the Spanish did to defend it from the British because of lack of gold and silver. They fight African slaves which they called Maroons. The British and Maroons signed a peace treaty in 1738. Sugar became the major crop, and the island ranked as it’s most important slave market in the Western...
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...towards his persona and career. John Anthony Frusciante was born in Queens, New York, USA on Thursday, 5th March 1970; as the first and only child of his father John and his mother Gail. His paternal grand-grandfather Generoso, from small town of Benevento in the region of Campania in southern Italy, moved to United States at the beginning of World War, with a single carton suitcase I to start a whole new life. Generoso and his son, John's grandfather, were playing fiddle and mandolin around New York restaurants for life. Influenced by his family's musical background, John's father was playing piano and studying at Julliard, but later on he decided to change his mind and study law. Right now, John Frusciante Sr. is a retired judge in Florida. On the other side, John's mother, Gail, is a very talented singer and she contributed the heavenly harmony vocals on RHCP's hit Under The Bridge accompanied by two friends. She is still involved in music and is a member of her church's choir. John's parents later went separate ways and had more children in their other marriages. John's step-father, Laurence Berkley, is involved with martial arts and has released A SAMURAI WORKOUT DVD, which also features some of John's music. Mr. Berkley stated that he instilled discipline and cultural awareness in the lives of the five children he raised, amongst them John himself. At the same time, John consider him to have been a cool person to have around while he was...
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...Social Marketing Campaigns and Children’s Media Use Social Marketing Campaigns and Children’s Media Use W. Douglas Evans Summary Media-related commercial marketing aimed at promoting the purchase of products and services by children, and by adults for children, is ubiquitous and has been associated with negative health consequences such as poor nutrition and physical inactivity. But, as Douglas Evans points out, not all marketing in the electronic media is confined to the sale of products. Increasingly savvy social marketers have begun to make extensive use of the same techniques and strategies used by commercial marketers to promote healthful behaviors and to counter some of the negative effects of conventional media marketing to children and adolescents. Evans points out that social marketing campaigns have been effective in helping to prevent and control tobacco use, increase physical activity, improve nutrition, and promote condom use, as well as other positive health behaviors. He reviews the evidence from a number of major recent campaigns and programming in the United States and overseas and describes the evaluation and research methods used to determine their effectiveness. He begins his review of the field of social marketing by describing how it uses many of the strategies practiced so successfully in commercial marketing. He notes the recent development of public health brands and the use of branding as a health promotion strategy. He then goes on ...
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...Coke – Ethical Issues “Our product is quite healthy. Fluid replenishment is a key to health. Coke does a great service because it encourages people to take in more and more liquids.” - Michael Douglas Investor, Coke’s Chairman and CEO. “Public schools are funded by the public to educate the children as provided by state law. It is totally inappropriate that its facilities and employees are being used by corporations to increase their own profits on public time and with public dollars.” Dr. Brita Butler-Wall, Executive Director, Citizens’ Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools, US. THE RECALL On June 13, 1999, Coca-Cola[1] (Coke) recalled over 15 million cans and bottles after the Belgian Health Ministry announced a ban on Coke’s drinks, which were suspected of making more than 100 school children ill in the preceding six days. This recall was in addition to the 2.5 million bottles that had already been recalled in the previous week. The company’s products namely Coke, Diet Coke and Fanta had been bottled[2] in Antwerp, Ghent and Wilrijk, Belgium while some batches of Coke, Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite were also produced in Dunkirk, France. Children at six schools in Belgium had complained of headache, nausea, vomiting and shivering which ultimately led to hospitalization after drinking Coke’s beverages. Most of them reported an ‘unusual odor’ and an ‘off-taste’ in the drink. In a statement to Reuters, Marc Pattin, a spokesman for the Belgian Health Ministry explained the seriousness...
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...2.3 Effects of Different Types of Drugs Review There are several types of drugs. Never drive a motor vehicle after taking a substance which alters the central nervous system. This includes over-the-counter, prescription, and of course, illegal drugs. The following categories of drugs have known side effects that include impaired attention, reaction time, and vision: * Antihistamines * Pain Relievers * Tranquilizers * Hallucinogens * Stimulants * Narcotics It is very dangerous to combine alcohol and other drugs. Synergism occurs when the effect of one drug is enhanced by the presence of another drug. A multiplying rather than additive effect may occur. It takes more ounces of beer than whiskey to become impaired, but people tend to drink more beer (total ounces) than whiskey. Regarding the servings of assorted alcohol beverages, they all have differing amounts of alcohol. Beer actually has more alcohol than whiskey and coolers are even stronger. There are also an infinite number of ways to mix alcoholic beverages so a drink by drink comparison can only be made when size and alcohol content of the drinks involved are known. Alcohol is a toxic substance. The use of alcohol has no benefit to the body or society. Abuse or excessive consumption of alcohol or other drugs affects the physiology of the body in many ways. If a body becomes accustomed to the presence of alcohol continuously, a physical dependence develops and changes in...
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...of The Dark Knight Rises, still drew the curious. “People drive by to look,” he said, but “not too many.” The Aurora massacre is noteworthy, even in the crowded field of mass shootings, as one of the more wretched and demoralizing in the recent history of American violence, and I was surprised that the scene of the crime did not attract more attention. “I guess people move on,” he said. I walked up a slight rise that provided an imperfect view of the back of Theater 9, where the massacre took place, and tried to imagine the precise emotions the victims felt as the gunfire erupted. “The shooting started at a quiet moment in the movie,” Stephen Barton told me. He was shot in the opening fusillade. “I saw this canister-type thing, a smoking object, streak across the screen. I thought it was a kid with fireworks playing a prank.” Barton is 22 years old. He had been preparing to leave for Russia this fall on a Fulbright scholarship. “The first...
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...Biography for Amy Winehouse More at IMDbPro » ad feedback Date of Birth 14 September 1983, Southgate, London, England, UK Date of Death 23 July 2011, Camden, London, England, UK (alcohol poisoning) Birth Name Amy Jade Winehouse Nickname Wino Ames Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) Mini Biography Amy Winehouse was a five-time Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter known for such hits as 'Rehab' and 'You Know I'm No Good' among her other works. She was born Amy Jade Winehouse, on September 14, 1983, in Enfield, London, England to a Jewish family with Russian ancestry on her mother's side. Her father, Mitchell Winehouse, was a taxi driver; her mother, Janis Winehouse (nee Seaton), was a pharmacist. Her family shared her love of theater and music. Amy was brought up on jazz music; she played her brother's guitar and received her own guitar at age 13. Young Amy Winehouse was a rebellious girl. At age 14, she was expelled from Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London. At that time she pierced her nose and tattooed her body. She briefly attended the BRIT School in Croydon, and began her professional career at 16, performing occasional club gigs and recording low cost demos. At age 19, she recorded her debut, Frank (2003), a jazz-tinged album that became a hit and earned her several award nominations. During the next several years, she survived a period of personal upheaval, a painful relationship, and has been struggling with substance abuse. Her 2006's album...
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...staff created some of the world's most well-known fictional characters including Mickey Mouse, for whom Disney himself provided the original voice. During his lifetime he received four honorary Academy Awards and won 22 Academy Awards from a total of 59 nominations, including a record four in one year,[5] giving him more awards and nominations than any other individual in history.[6] Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorttheme parks in the U.S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland. The year after his December 15, 1966 death from lung cancer in Burbank, California, construction began on Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. His brother Roy Disney inaugurated the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971. 1901–1937: Beginnings Childhood Disney was born on December 5, 1901, at 2156 N. Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa community area to Irish-Canadian father Elias Disney and Flora Call Disney, who was of German and English descent.[7][8] His great-grandfather, Arundel...
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