Using the Health People 2010 document (http://healthypeople.gov/About/), answer the following questions. What are the two overarching goals of Healthy People 2010? List the 28 focus areas. How often is HP 2010 updated? Access the HP 2010 document by clicking the “full text of the second edition” link. List the five elements of a community health promotion programs as listed in focus area #7 – Educational and Community-Based Programs. 1.) The first goal of Healthy People
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Vulnerable Populations Vulnerable populations are groups of people not well integrated into the health care system because of ethnic, cultural, economic, geographic, or health characteristics. As a result those individuals are in danger of not acquiring medical care there by creating a potential threat to their health. Examples of vulnerable populations include racial and ethnic minorities, elderly, underinsured or uninsured, psychiatric population, immigrants, children, and people with disabilities
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Different Cultures and Their Health Traditions The Heritage Assessment Tool is a valuable tool that can be used by health care professionals to help them become aware of the client’s ethnic, religious and cultural background in relation to their views on health, illness and diseases. As defined by Winkelman, culture, is an element of ethnicity, consists of shared patterns of values and behaviors that characterize a particular group (as cited in Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p.32) Assessing these culturally
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Epidemiology Paper – HIV/AIDS Epidemiology is defined as “the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in specified populations, and the application of this study to control of health problems” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2008, p. 243). According to Medscape’s (2011) website, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are prevalent among homeless girls and women (both sheltered and unsheltered) and is attributed to lack of access to condoms, survival sex, prostitution
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STUDY ON PUBLIC SPONSORED HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEMES IN INDIA Abstract The main of this study is to analyse the public sponsored health insurance models in India. The main aim of government sponsored health insurance schemes is to assist the BPL families in catastrophic health expenditure and thereby provide them access to quality health care. This report goes through the working procedure of health insurance schemes, especially Rajiv Aarogyasri (Andhra Pradesh), Vajpayee aarogyasri (Karnataka)
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Housing for Workers A resilient community is one that has the ability to anticipate risk and rapidly adapt and evolve in the face of change. A growing demand for fresh produce, shifting regulatory environment, and widespread labor shortage, have fueled the need to build a community structure that can sustain the changing climate in agriculture. Farmworker housing is an important component of community infrastructure that influences the health and economic vitality of the agriculture industry. This
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TOPIC: The Programme of Action to Mitigate the Social Cost of Adjustment: Objectives and Assessment of Failures and Achievements. Page Abbreviation 1 List of Tables 1 1. Background of PAMSCAD 2 2. Objectives of PAMSCAD 3 a. Projects under PAMSCAD 4 3. Assessment of Success and Failure of PAMSCAD 5 b. Community Initiative Project 5 c. Employment Generation Project 6 d. Redeployment
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Heritage Assessment Cultural heritage plays an important role in the economic, social and health promotion of an individual. The use of heritage assessment tools helps people to evaluate someone’s heritage, as well as traditional health methods used to maintain health, protect health, and restore health; Heritage assessment tool is very useful for the health care professionals when they are dealing with a person’s physical, mental, and spiritual beliefs. Every person has a cultural heritage and
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becoming the norm, shifting more health care delivery to outpatient settings, the skills of the BSN nurse are essential for practice in other community sites, such as health maintenance organizations, home health services, community clinics, and managed care firms” (The Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing as Minimal Preparation for Professional Practice, 2000). In addition to general nursing courses, statistics and research courses, BSNs’ receive additional instruction in health care promotion of patients
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ANTH 350 7980 Health, Illness, and Healing (2158) 11-19-2015 Stage 1: Ethnographic Assessment An inventory of health/illness related product in the household In an ordinary household, it is common to find medication, medical devices, and or food supplements associated to a specific health-related condition or illness. An assessment of my household reveals the following products: Prozac Paxil Amoxicillin Furosemide Esmilol Vitamin C, Multivitamin, Pottassium, iron Ambien Lunesta
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