...Identify and describe each of the seven Areas of Responsibility of a Health Education Specialist. Discuss the importance of each area of responsibility and provide examples of each. Responsibility I: Assess Needs, Assets, and Capacity for Health Education: With this responsibility one must assess the need for the population surrounding them. This will help to solve the problems for the individual or group. This will help stakeholders to gather data, analyze the data in order to know what areas needs to be focused on. When the stakeholders get the data together they then can proceed with developing a plan with the information collected. When gathering information one looks at the area and population that is covered, how many people are infected, age group that is affected. Responsibility II: Plan Health Education: When planning involve more than finding a location its about how good written and oral skills one has. One must be competent in developing goals on which the foundation will established for the program that is meant for. It is an importance in finding the right stakeholders for the job in order to support each other and help to develop a program together. Responsibility III: Implement Health Education: In this stage it is important to develop a program and putting it together. When developing a program one puts the data together that was collected and find materials that would be educational in teaching the techniques. One must really focus on...
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...skills through athletics, exercise and various other physical activities. Seeing its benefits for the body and its effect on life, the importance of physical education can’t be ignored. Physical education inculcates in children the importance of maintaining a healthy body and teaches then the importance of regular fitness activity in daily routine, which in turn keeps them happy and energized. This helps the children to maintain their fitness, develop their muscular strength and increase their stamina. Research has proved that children who actively participate in sports, be it team sports or dual and individual sports, have high self-confidence, which is very important for the development of a person’s character. Physical education instills the desire to participate, enjoy victory and take defeat positively, developing the overall personality of the character. By making children participate in sports, especially team sports, physical education also imbibes in them a sense of team spirit. Children learn how to work as a team member, organize themselves and function together towards attaining a goal. This in turn improves a child’s overall communications skills and the ability to get along with different kind of people. Physical education helps one gain knowledge about the overall aspects of physical health. In today’s world, several health problems like obesity, anemia, bulimia, and even diabetes, are rampant amongst teenagers. Through physical education, teachers can promote...
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...Shamale Williams HCS/341 September-29-2014 Dorothy Cucinelli Training and Assessment Training in the health care industry involves a variety steps such as assessment, development and conduct of training and evaluations (Gómez, Balkin, & Cardy, 2012, p. 278). Training and assessment in the health care industry involves skills training, peer training, customer service training, creative training, crisis training and literacy training (Gómez, Balkin, & Cardy, 2012, p. 269). Employees in the health care industry require training and assessments on a daily basis to ensure they are properly functioning in a position. Training in the health care industry is essential for patients to receive excellent health care services and for the organization to be successful. Training helps staff members to provide a variety of care throughout different types of health care organizations, such as urgent care centers and neighborhood medical clinics (Mayhew, 2014). The overall process of training in the health care industry is to provide employees with specific skills needed to perform effectively in a position (Gómez, Balkin, & Cardy, 2012, p. 258). Importance of Training and Education in a Health Care Setting Training and education is important in a health care setting because it helps health care providers to protect and provide patients with proper health care services, which helps staff members to avoid making medical mistakes and helps the organization avoid any...
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...2/19/14 Doctors always stress the importance of exercise. Even though 9 times out of 10 we don’t listen. Exercise is essential to the human body, and all living things with muscles and bones. It keeps us in shape. A body that is in shape is healthy. A healthy being is more likely to survive than an injured, weak, or otherwise unhealthy being. The importance of exercise is fitness, good health, and how a person’s mood may be. Fitness is when the body is in good condition. Not just physically, but mentally. Fitness is a quality you are required to have in a multitude of jobs. Fitness can help you achieve goals you have made for yourself. Exercise is one of the keys to fitness. A cornucopia of doctors will tell you that fitness is acquire by exercising. Playing sports with friends for example is an excellent way to achieve fitness. Another, way to achieve fitness is to eat healthy. Good health is one of numerous benefits that regularly exercising gets you. Good health benefits the body. Your bones will be stronger and so will your muscles. You keep a regular and almost constant blood pressure. Eating healthy also helps your skin. It helps your skin. So technically eating healthy makes you look better. It keeps your skin clear, strengthens muscles and bones, and helps your cardiovascular system. Regular exercise can help your mood. It is proven that people who exercise are happier and live a better life. When people exercise their mood could rise “Help Me...
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...Health and Wellness All people all over the world need health and wellness. Health and wellness are very necessary. Health refers to a state of complete mental, physical, and social well-being, and not just in absence of diseases. Wellness refers to condition of physical and mental health. The paper will start by describing health and wellness. After that we will describe the dimensions of health and wellness. And also we will describe the multiple factors of health and wellness. Finally, we will be discussed the importance of being healthy and well and also the ways to maintain your health and wellness. Health and wellness are the most important aspects in our life, so everyone should know the definition of each one. Health is the general condition of a person's mind and body, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain. Wellness is an approach to healthcare that confirm preventing illness and extending life, as contrary to confirm treating diseases. There are many dimensions of health and wellness. First, there are many dimensions of health such as physical health, intellectual health, emotional health, social health, and Spiritual health. The physical health refers to the state of the body - its compositions, development, functions, and maintenance. There are a few ways to ensure good physical health such as: -Eat nutritious food to keep the body and mind energized. -Water is necessary for cleansing the body. And -Fitness through exercise. Then, the...
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...ethical and legal issues concerning the “Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act” otherwise known as (HIPPA). This law has impacted the healthcare industry and the way in which healthcare workers conduct themselves with patients, their families, and with one another. In nursing the importance of confidentiality has always been the forefront of patient care. The current Code of Ethics for Nurses (ANA,2001) is clear in its intent and meaning as it relates to the nurses primary role in promoting and advocating patient’s rights relating to privacy and confidentiality. Every nurse has always understood the need for patient confidentiality even before (HIPPA) was law. Truth being with advanced technology, new demands in healthcare, and recent developments in the world at large has made it more difficult to keep this promise. But keep it they must. As healthcare workers on any given day we hear and see private and confidential information, it is our duty to protect it. On occasion we do become comfortable with patient’s medical information that it can be easy to forget that as healthcare workers how important it is to keep information secure and private. Thus, a recommended solution to this issue is to recap the -privacy section of the “Health Insurance Portability Act” and refer to it as a guide to fully be able to protect patient confidentiality. The article is written to provide healthcare professionals information about the importance of keeping patient’s medical information...
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...Abstract An exploration of the importance of Evidenced-Based Practice (EBP), and how it ensures quality healthcare and positive patient outcomes. We will take a look at a simple procedure such as hand washing and show why it is an EBP protocol. Why Is Hand Washing So Important? Everyone in the world is responsible for good hand hygiene. As healthcare providers, it is important to teach our patience the importance of good hand hygiene to prevent spread of infection and or disease. By doing this, you are involving patients in their care and helping the greater cause of disease prevention. All healthcare facilities include hand hygiene protocols. Where I work, the hospital policy is that we wash our hands upon entering a patient’s room, put on gloves, remove gloves, wash hands upon leaving that patient’s room, then wash hand again upon entering the next patient’s room…and continue that routine with each patient. We were allowed to us hand sanitizer up to three times, in place of washing with soap and water, providing the patient is not on contact or any other special precautions. For the most part, most of do this, but I did not see everyone following this protocol, especially doctors. Most of the staff only use the sanitizer all of the time. The only time hand washing protocol seems to be followed fully is when I witness sterile procedures. This is a problem and causes increased occurrence of healthcare associated infections (HAIs), but it is difficult to ensure healthcare...
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...education, environments, health care, products and films. * News: news make people know clearly about any events of nation and global. * Technology: provide people widely knowledge * To make people know about caring their health in modern science. * People know more about evaluation of technology. * People are highly of creative thinking, and to develop technology. * Provide people convenient communication via internet with each other and getting fast information. * People can produce things using technology today. * Culture and civilization: the advertising which allow people know more about their religion include languages, letter, speech, belief, clothes and sort of things. * Business: people know about * Create business strategy * People are clearly to decide what they have to do in their business. * People are able to develop their business and let them success. * Sport: educate people more about * Sports are importance to health * Prevent people from ills * Get rid of any drugs * Education: * People value in themselves and society * Educate people to get in touch in study and let them know how importance of learning * People become good citizen and good behavior * Make people respect to their parents and the elder * Educate people to act in good * Prevent people from crime * Health care: provide people more knowledge * People know how to maintain health, living, clean and well-being ...
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...References A health career (2015) How to become a physiotherapist [Online] Available at: http://www.ahealthcareer.co.uk/how-become-physiotherapist.html (Accessed on: 28/05/2015) Chartered society of physiotherapy (2015) what is physiotherapy? [Online] Available at: http://www.csp.org.uk/your-health/what-physiotherapy (Accessed on: 28/05/2015) Community Care (2015) Social workers should use Equality Act to embed anti-discriminatory practice [Online] Available at: http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2013/01/09/social-workers-should-use-equality-act-to-embed-anti-discriminatory-practice/ (Accessed on: 28/05/2015) GAP MEDICS (2015) skills and traits needed to make a good midwife [Online] Available at: http://www.gapmedics.com/blog/2014/10/22/skills-and-traits-needed-to-make-a-good-midwife (Accessed on: 28/05/2015) House with no steps (2013) person centred approach and practices [Online] Available at: http://www.hwns.com.au/Resource-centre/person-centred-approach (Accessed on: 28/05/2015) Info Entrepreneurs (2009) IMPORTANCE OF KNOWLEDGE TO A GROWING BUSINESS [Online] Available at: http://www.infoentrepreneurs.org/en/guides/importance-of-knowledge-to-a-growing-business/ (Accessed on: 28/05/2015) National Careers Service (2012) Midwife [Online] Available at: https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/advice/planning/jobprofiles/Pages/Midwife.aspx (Accessed on: 28/05/2015) NHS (2010) Clinical Education [Online] Available at: http://www.ulh.nhs.uk/for_staff/education_a...
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...perception of the government’s role, and the importance government regulation has when it comes to the medical industry. I scored with the majority of the students when it came to describing the roles of biostatics serves in the discipline of public health. I found it to be of low/medium importance level. I do feel there is a need for biostatistics however; it is one of the concepts that does not play in my mind on a daily basis and it seems like most of the other students would agree. It tends to only strike me as important when it is on a national, worldwide, or has gained the importance of the media or news. I also scored with the majority of the class when it came to the statistical concepts as well. I do feel that averages and statically concepts can be very helpful when it comes to the impact that things health wise can have on the human population. When it comes to statistic the number can be manipulated pretty easily to portray whatever picture that people want. That does not mean is what is always being done, but I think is a large reason why as a class we generally find a low importance on it. For example, drug companies do a great job using statistics to show how great their products are with helping the world’s health problems. What the drug companies do not rave about is the other side effects their new medication cause to solve a different problem. However, again it is not something that gets placed a high importance until it becomes relevant news again in the public...
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...The article’s main claim is that social determinants of health (such as income and gender inequality) should be considered in Canadian health policy because they shape a person`s life and link “government policy, the market and the health and well-being of citizens” (Raphael, 2008, p. 232). As such, Raphael cites three barriers that impede the recognition of social determinants in Canadian policy. They are: 1. The dominant biomedical ideology of positivist science based on the empirical evidence, sees health and illness as individual pathology, taken out of social and environmental determinants shaping health (Raphael, 2008, p. 224). 2. The public ideology of individualism isolates health issues as personal responsibilities as opposed...
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...Good afternoon Ms Chin and my friends , my name is Choong Si Kei and now it’s my turn to present the 5-minute speech. Before I start , please allow me to ask you all a question. “ How many times have you heard “I don’t have enough time to sleep” or said it to yourself especially while you are doing your assignment or prepare for your final exam .. So today , I choose this topic to inform the importance of having enough sleep in our daily life. Here is the briefly explained about what is sleep. Let us take a look at the reasons why we must get a quality sleep and I will make you realise why enough sleep is important to you with the first reason. First , having enough sleep can help you to prevent and cure of disease . The importance of sleep for health is mainly that it helps the body recover from several diseases and other health problems. When you are asleep, your body get the chance to repair its damaged cells and related functions, and strengthen the immune system, thus preventing the other health problems such as stroke and heart disease. Therefore, for a person to avoid heart disease and strokes, sleeping between 7 and 8 hours everyday is advised. Going beyond the boundaries of this range will result to unhealthy body conditions over time. Now, you start to think about the importance of better sleep to your health. I am going to focus about the next reason why we must have a good quality of sleep. So the next reason is to enhance our memory . Studies show that those who...
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...the Study Health is the level of functional and (or) metabolic efficiency of a living being. In humans, it is the general condition of a person in mind, body and spirit, usually meaning to be free from illness, injury or pain (as in “good health” or “healthy”). The World Health Organization (WHO) defined health in its broader sense in 1946 as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Although this definition has been subject to controversy, in particular as having a lack of operational value and the problem created by use of the word "complete", it remains the most enduring. Classification systems such as the WHO Family of International Classifications, including the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), are commonly used to define and measure the components of health. The maintenance and promotion of health is achieved through different combination of physical, mental, and social well-being, together sometimes referred to as the “health triangle”. The WHO's 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion furthered that health is not just a state, but also "a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities." Systematic activities to prevent or cure health problems and promote good health in humans are...
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...Ethics of Health Care Oscar Derry Brown HCS405 March 9th 2013 Donna Nanovski Reporting Practices and Ethics of Health Care This paper will explain the practices and ethics of the health care system. Within the past few years there has been countless of fraud and abuse in the Medicare and Medicaid systems. Many false practices by doctors and health care staff to make the extra dollar. On the other hand there are health care providers who follow the right proto-call to stay honest with his or her patients and practices. This paper will summarize the many financial elements and the ethical standards of the health care providers. Financial Management As the health care system enters to the new century, there is a tidal wave effect within the system. With so many changes, such as the older generation are working and living longer the health care system has to change. Reorganizing (organization) the health care system over the past 10 years has changed completely the procedure of delivery and financing. Better future planning however has been a challenged for the health care system. There are several factors cost cutting, services continue to reduced, the growth of revenues and return on the investments. This can be called mismanage care that has decreased cost (M. Cipriano-Silva, 1998). The health care workforce is the fastest growing career in America. Eleven million plus strong employees is most powerful workforce of health care today...
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...Environmental Health Term Paper: Childhood Obesity in Low Socioeconomic Status Communities Jordan Landers Florida State University Abstract Obesity is at an all time high in the Unites States, affecting 35% of adults and 17% of children. Childhood obesity can be very detrimental causing emotional, physical, and social strain on the lives of adolescents. Those that are affected the most are citizens that live in low socioeconomic status communities due to lack of education and lack of resources. There are shortages of grocery stores and markets that offer fresh fruits and vegetables thus communities rely on fast food restaurants and convenient stores for food. Furthermore lack of fresh food coupled with physical inactivity is the main reason for the rise of childhood obesity and obesity in general in the past 30 years. Creating safe places for children to play as well as providing food and resources is the only way to eliminate the ongoing obesity epidemic. Growing up there has always been a certain degree of importance placed on the diet and living a healthy lifestyle to live a long and successful life. As of late there has been a boom in fitness sales, gym memberships, and importance on diet and quality food consumption, yet in the past 30 years the United States has seen a drastic increase in the amount of obese individuals. With social media and so many other health initiatives taking place across the country, why is there still a rise in obesity levels amongst...
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