Professor Vollaro ENC 1101 February 4, 2013 Effect Cause Paper Illiteracy The society, the American economy, many people’s health, and even the justice system are all affected by illiteracy. The lack of the ability to read and write has a huge impact, one way or another, on the everyday life of every person. Twenty percent of the American population is functionally illiterate, which means they cannot read at all or they read below the fourth grade reading level. It is important
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suicide attempts would demonstrate poorer social problem solving compared to non-suicidal depressed elderly. Depression, loss, and physical illness are all associated with suicide in elderly people where poor problem solving is a risk factor in young adults; however the vulnerability of each individual is not fully understood. The participants included 64 individuals aged 60 or older, including depressed suicide attempters, non-suicidal depressed attempters, and non-depressed controls. The 25 item
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Assessment Tool Analyses As stated by Weissman and Beck in Development and Validation of the Dysfunctional Attitude Scale: A Preliminary Investigation, The Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) was developed to measure pervasive negative attitudes of a depressed person towards self, outside world, and future. (Weissman, 1978, p.3) When it was initially done it had one hundred questions, then it was reduced to two sets of forty questions and since then there have been different versions used
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through the University of Phoenix. Recently, we had a community assessments assignment to identify aspects within our community that could adversely affect the health of the community. I commend your efforts to explore ways additional ways the County has attempted to implement various food programs such as a healthy breakfast for school children in the morning before the start of school. Chesterfield County Health Department through health screenings in public schools reported in 2013, that more than
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my weight dropped to 72 pounds. I lay in a hospital bed with unkempt hair, fragile limbs and a sunken face. I was seriously ill. The villainous disease was not cancer or AIDS. I had anorexia, a condition which afflicts many teens and young adults, especially young women.” - Me Still to this day I am not sure how I had gotten to that point. The point where I was so focused on being skinny, on being part of the in-crowd. I can blame it on many things like, how I was new to the private school life
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Professional Presence and Influence Professional Presence and Influences To feel completely human one have to be able to care for themselves and also for someone else in a respected and nurtured manner. According to Dr. Koerner, one consider them self valuable and useful when they are able to contribute to wellbeing of themselves
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1) What questions do you ask of Dr. Levin and of the local Arkansas health department? Human exposure to mercury even in small quantity is never a thing medically which may cause some serious health problems, and could be a threat to the lives of these young adults. Metallic mercury exposure is toxic to the central and peripheral nervous systems. The inhalation of mercury vapor, as the case of one of the teens who smoked mercury laced cigarette can produce harmful effects on the nervous, digestive
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When we hear the words overweight or obesity we tend to relate these words with adults. A reason to this could be, because obesity affects our body’s function. Many health problems arise in the forms of type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and lack of range of motion. The majority of times, we see these health complications in older adults. Now, the health problems experienced by adults due to obesity are now being experienced among children. When a child is overweight or obese during childhood
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billion people have high blood pressure (hypertension); of these, two thirds are in developing countries. * Hypertension is one of the most important causes of premature death worldwide and the problem is growing; in 2025, an estimated 1.56 billion adults will be living with hypertension. * Hypertension is the leading cause of CVD worldwide. *
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“epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of health-related events in human populations and the application of this knowledge to improving the health of communities (p. 282). In many communities there populations at risk for to specific health care problems creating a vulnerable population. “Vulnerability is a general concept meaning “susceptibility,” and its specific connotation in terms of health care is at risk for health problems” (De Chesney, 2008, p. 3). As Stanhope and Lancaster
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