Epidemiology Paper The purpose of this paper is to discuss the relevancy of the vulnerable population, and the disease for this group. The vulnerable population that has been chosen is mental illness, and the disease for this population is AIDS/HIV. There will be a definition and description of epidemiology in regards to HIV/AIDS, with the steps and method that was used. The Epidemiological Triangle will be define and identified, and the different types of epidemiology. The population chosen characteristics
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Code of Ethics Paper Lindsey Green, Dawn Galvan, Angela Carbo, Hughie Webb HCS/335 July 27, 2015 Mr. Lawrence Fergus Code of Ethics Paper Health care ethics involve moral principles, beliefs and values that help health care providers make good decisions about medical care. The core element of health care ethics is the sense of right and wrong, the rights that we possess and the duties we owe to others. “Thinking carefully about the ethical aspects of health care decisions helps us make
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increasing day by day as it is considered to be the “land of opportunity”. People from all over the world are here with different cultures. As US has increasingly cultural diversity -Asian are 3.6 % 1 ten % of US population is foreign born by 2050 (Gregory Juckett, 2005).It has become very important to understand and respect this various cultural beliefs especially in the healthcare system. All cultures have equal values and are different from one another. Heritage Assessment is a tool to help us know
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includes their skills, experiences, culture, interests, values and their ambitions. Each of these groups is rich with enormous possibilities. One of the Public Health provider’s professional responsibility is to learn and understand the diversity and cultural differences that exists in there area of operation and beyond, in order to address the health needs of these groups effectively (Woodward, 2010). One of the key agendas of the public health sectors in any country is to provide health care interventions
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important natural resource that can potentially be sustainably harvested and managed to yield a diversity of commodities of economic importance .wood is by far the most important product harvested from forests. The wood is commonly manufactured into paper, lumber, plywood and other products .in addition, in most of the forested regions of the less developed world firewood is the most important source of energy used for cooking and other purposes.Pontentially, all of these forest products can be sustainably
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Classifying Abnormality Paper Alycia Moss PSY/410 September 7, 2011 Laurie Rhia Classifying Abnormality Paper Many efforts have been made to try to classify abnormal behavior, by utilizing some type of diagnostic categorizing system. These efforts have progressed from methods that vaguely lists disorders, to more thorough, modern methods, like DSM- IV- TR, this method lists numerous amounts of different mental disorders. Psychopathology is the study of mental illness
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restoration of individual cultural beliefs. This evaluation helps meet the needs of different patient populations to provide quality holistic care. The purpose of this paper is to explore the Hispanic, Native American, Chinese, and the author’s own personal cultural beliefs from perspectives of health traditions, maintenance, promotion and restoration of health. The objectives are to identify different families and the own common health traditions based of the cultural heritage. Evaluate and discuss
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infestans causes the devastating diseases in potato crop called late blight. It has two mating type population ie; A1 and A2. While A1 type is reproduced asexually, A2 type is reproduced sexually. The main habitat of these pathogens is moist and damp places where they complete their cycles and completely destroy the potato crop. The potato growers are seeking the sustainable late blight management techniques to increase the yield of potato crop. The integrated disease management process would be the
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insurance, and cultural beliefs. (AAHI, 2005) Poverty creates many complications in one’s health and recuperation from illness. Like any other minority group, Asians often won’t seek out healthcare for fear of being deported and not understanding what the health problem is. To this day many Asian Americans do not understand western medicine and prefer traditional remedies and treatments over seeing a doctor or taking a pill. (Louie, K. 2001) Asian’s suffer from various diseases. The two leading
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Heritage Assessment Nurses have been trained to respect the beliefs and cultural choices of others because patient’s cultural beliefs and rituals influence patient care and outcomes (Anderson, 2012). Nurses need to become aware of patients beliefs, values and rituals to ensure competent and safe patient care (Edelman & Greiner, 2010). The heritage assessment is useful because it is an important step in building cultural competency through interviewing the patient and determining the things the patient
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