Hendricks County Promotion of Healthy Lifestyle with Nutrition and Exercise Faith N. Kirirah – 000328312 07/03/2014 HGT Community Health Practicum Western Governors University Assessment The fieldwork for this report is performed in Hendricks County in the state of Indiana, United States of America (USA). Community Hendricks County is located just west of Indianapolis, Indiana. This county boarders on Borne County to the north, Marion County to the east, Montgomery and Putnam Counties
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University PCN 303 October 30, 2011 Personal wellness is not limited to the client. Wellness must be a priority of the professional as well. One’s approach to personal wellness must be holistic to include emotional, physical and spiritual health, which in turn helps one to obtain well balanced relationships. An effective counselor takes care of self in order to be prepared to deal with the stresses of the profession. There are many aspects and variables to counseling, without personal wellness
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your heart, your health, and everything in between. Just place it on your wrist, and it will collect data on your heart rate, calories burned physical activity and sleep patterns - and even upload them into an easy-to-read online dashboard.”(Cepro.com, 2011). The Basis Band is an innovated product for the diet, exercise, heath fanatic individuals. It fits right in the market for this area since obesity is an issue in the World today. This device is an alternative to fitness based products. The
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Health Care Models Analysis Directions: Develop a hypothetical case requiring the treatment of a patient (for example, the patient has a virus, an allergy, or a chronic condition). Using this case, explain the process in which each model (medical, holistic, epidemiological triangle, and social) would provide treatment (considering underlying causes, symptoms, as well as personal, social, economic, and environmental factors). If a model can be explained using a labeled graphic, then that is acceptable
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RunningHead: Childhood Obesity 1. Childhood Obesity 2. The topic I have chosen is Childhood Obesity. Health has always been a major topic in our society. This paper will show childhood obesity as a growing problem in our Nation. According to Hagelin, 2012, 1 in 3 children is, “obese or overweight”, often resulting in medical problems adding up to “nearly $150 billion” each year (Hagelin, 2012 p.8). This is beginning to be a major problem in the United States
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Health Promotion Health promotion is defined as the activity and behaviors that help individuals stay healthy. These include reduction in stress, knowledge of nutrition, management, fitness and self-responsibility. By emphasizing on the positive aspect of good health, health promotion helps a person to build up assets that will keep up and develop his or her good health and perk up their quality of life. It colludes to the action a person takes when there are no indications of any illness to stay
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Associate Level Material Six Dimensions of Health Worksheet Part 1 For each of the following six dimensions of health, list at least one characteristic, activity, belief, or attitude that reflects that dimension in your life. Provide a brief explanation with each example. Refer to Ch. 1 in the text for explanations of these dimensions. Physical health: It has a characteristic of body size, shape, physical fitness, and a newer definition of ADL, which means activities of daily living.
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Technology Background/Motivation: Health related issues as well as complications are a major cause of concern among each and every population (Klapow and Pruitt, 13). Monitoring one’s health is a way of detecting any medical concerns before they get out of hand. If detected early enough, any slack in healthy living is stopped or corrected. The problem with the world today is that we are always on the fast lane and nobody stops for anything even when their health is at risk (Welk, 17). The culture
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TASK 1 Application of Community Health & Population-Focused Nursing AngelitoArguelles WGU Student No. 000476784 A. The community that I have chosen for the assigned community assessment is Broomfield county in the state of Colorado. This particular county is fairly new in its inception. According to the city and county of Broomfield website’s constitutional amendment section (n.d.), the city of Broomfield became the city and county of Broomfield on November 15, 2001. Before then, the
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to do something special. By caring about very simple things, you can be much healthier than others and enjoy long and happy life. They can benefit your overall health. Let’s start healthy life from today. What Do You Do For Your Health? These days, our environment is becoming worse. As the environment get worse, ways to stay our health are paid attention to many people. I don't have special ways. But I heard that many thing about that and try to apply several thing in my life. First, to
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