Physical activity recommendations for adolescents with repaired tetralogy of Fallot: review of the literature and guidelines for practitioners Adolescents living with congenital heart defects (CHDs) are a growing population in the United States. While in the 1960s and 1970s, the risk of dying after cardiac surgery was high at 30%, over the past few decades, this risk has decreased to approximately 5%, with the majority of children born with CHD living into adulthood (American Heart Association [AHA]
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Health of Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders Today the United States is a melting pot of ethnicity. The United States was founded and built by immigrants. Even though minorities help build the U.S., they suffer health issues disproportionately compared to white non-Hispanics. The World Health Organizetion defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their health. The Hawaiian and Pacific islanders’ racial category refers to a person having original
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Social issues SNAPSHOT The impact of domestic violence on children Key Points Domestic violence and children • Children, especially babies and young children, affected by domestic violence experience significant emotional and behavioural difficulties. • More than half of women in Australia who experience violence from a partner during their lifetime will be caring for children when the violence occurs. Living with domestic violence has serious effects on the emotional and behavioural wellbeing
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January 6, 2013 Dear Mrs. Who: Health and safety are a hot topic of discussion these days and our children and families are becoming more and more dependent on local resources to ensure adequate medical care in this ever changing economy. Schools are challenged with finding ways to engage parents in utilizing these resources and learn how they can help make keeping their children safe and healthy. I am proposing that we hold a Health and Safety Fair for the students and parents to create awareness
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Grassroots groups are calling on people either not to fly or to protest by refusing to submit to those full body scans, the ones that show everything. Major airline pilot unions are urging their members to avoid body scans. They are worried about health risks associated because of repeated small doses of radiation along with intrusiveness and security officer behavior. The T.S.A. insists that the machines are safe. And you believe what the government tells you, don’t you? A quote
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DEPRESSION IN ADOLESCENTS 2. Table of Contents Introduction …………………………………………………………………………….…....3. Background of Depression in Adolescence…….…………………………………………….4. Causes ...............................................................................................................................…...5. Symptoms………………………………………………………………………………….…6. Diagnosis….…………………………………………………………………………………. 7. Treatment……………………………………………………………………………………..7. Epidemiology of Depression in Youth………………………………………………………
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organization must know their goals, missions, and how to reach them. Health care facilities are in huge demand for the elderly and for people who lives in low-income communities. A person who receives good quality health care services can prevent the spread of contagious diseases. This paper will describe the need of the community, population it is serving, and a brief description of the facility. Franklin C. Fetter Family Health Center (FCFFHC) is an outpatient clinic and has served the communities
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Child labor can lead to an increase in psychological problems in adolescents. In “Children Working on the Streets in Brazil: Predictors of Mental Health problems,” Mariana Maciel, Andrea Mello, Victor Fossaluza, Luciana Nobrega, Giulana Cividanes, Jair Mari, and Marcelo Mello, Professors at the Department of Psychiatry at the Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, share the result of their study. In their study, they explain the psychological risks of child labor, including emotional abuse and neglect
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Benedictine University MPH 610 – D1B4 Health Policy Developing New Policies: Policy Proposal Suicide Prevention Week Eight N. De Shields Instructor Dr. Yasmin Dada-Jones ABSTRACT This policy proposal attempts to abate the increasing number of suicides in the United States, a survey from 2001 to 2009 list fatal self-injuries span world-wide demographics, male and female, age, ethnic disparity and economic disposition. From 1999 to 2007 the number of suicides in the United States increased
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patient’s CFTR gene has 2 or more disease causing mutations (Levy 1). Typically cystic fibrosis is diagnosed during a child’s first year of life, however, there is a rising number of adolescents and adults getting diagnosed with the disease (Diagnostic 2). One potential reason for the rising number of adults and adolescents is the wide range of phenotypes the disease causes. The phenotypes for cystic fibrosis range from asymptomatic to a critical, life-shortening lung disease (Levy 3). In addition to
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