development defines it as, “The extent of disparity between high income and low income households” (Ministry of Social Development, 2010) and it essentially deals with the fact that the majority of the wealth in New Zealand resides with a minority of the people. In recent years there has been a large amount of press about this issue, “Anger over income inequality has already sparked popular backlash in the form of Occupy Wall Street and other similar demonstrations.” (Gore, 2013, para. 3). This garnered
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The 2020 leading health indicator that interest me the most is clinical prevention. In my opinion, clinical prevention is the healthcare provider ability offer prevention advice or referrals that will educate patients and empower the patient to improve their health. I want to give people health power. This power will allow patients to live longer and heathy lives. In addition, it saves the patient and society money. Preventive services offer reduce death from disease as cancers. To eradicate diseases
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term second hand smoke is a combination of gases and fine particles of burning tobacco such as cigarettes, cigars, and pipe tobacco also known as side stream smoke. Second hand smoke consist of exhale tobacco particulars from the original person or people smoking the tobacco product this is known as mainstream smoke according to the CDC. The side stream tobacco smoke contains toughly 7,000 different chemicals that can be harmful to a nonsmoker and a estimate 70% of those chemicals can lead to cancer
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Week 2 Assignment Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection (Part 1 of the Programmatic Assessment) Fleurette Duverglas University of Phoenix NUR/405 - HEALTHY COMMUNITIES: THEORY AND PRACTICE Professor Sharon Baker November 17, 2014 Windshield Survey and Reflection Introduction The fundamental objective of conducting a community assessment is to attain the complete scenario of the region and identify the requirements of the specific community
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Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Valerie Kwiecien Healthy Communities: Theory and Practice Nur 405 Karen Harriman March 18, 2013 Windshield Survey Summary and Reflection Define Community Community is defined as an organization of individuals whom live in a geographical area that has boundaries. These individuals may share the same culture and values. The individuals are arranged in a social structure as related to relationships, which the community
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I. Introduction The use of tobacco continues to be a major cause of health problems worldwide. There is currently an estimated 1.3 billion smokers in the world, with 4.9 million people dying because of tobacco use in a year. If this trend continues, the number of deaths will increase to 10 million by the year 2020, 70% of which will be coming from countries like the Philippines. (The Role of Health Professionals in Tobacco Control, WHO, 2005). The World Health Organization released a document
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David Dumire Mr. J.L. Stedmen WRIT. 121-20154 14 March 2015 The Benefits Of Eating A Healthy Balanced Diet Living a healthy, happy, productive life is a growing concern among Americans today; both young and old alike. According to the Medical News Today, the top three leading causes of death among Americans are heart disease, cancer, and stroke. (Medical News Today: Saturday April 15, 2006) Sadly, the cause, prevention and cure for cancer remains largely unknown. However, the first and third
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behavioral risk factors. According to this data from the BRFSS 2012, as displayed in the table below, 88.2% of individuals surveyed reported having some form of health plan while 11.5% reported having no form of health plan, which estimates to be 54,801 people (CDC). HAVE ANY HEALTH CARE COVERAGE | | Frequency | Percent | Valid Percent | Cumulative Percent | Valid | 1 | 419328 | 88.2 | 88.2 | 88.2 | | 2 | 54801 | 11.5 | 11.5 | 99.7 | | 7 | 932 | .2 | .2 | 99.9 | | 9 | 624 | .1 | .1 | 100.0 |
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community that are affected by this higher incidence of smoking while pregnant. Since smoking in itself is at a higher incidence in Manistee county, 32.7%, compared to the 20.3% instance of the state of Michigan and the 7.8% incidence goal of Health People 2020, a larger portion of this county is affected in some way by this problem .When advising plans and techniques to provide knowledge and promote smoking cessation seminars and help decrease the smoking incidence, the focus will be for all smokers not
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healthcare, hospice and health promotion services to ensure quality care for their communities. The vision of the Visiting Nurses Association of America is to make sure our communities are healthier through quality care provided in a way and place people choose. The VNAAs values to the members are Access to Care, Excellence, Transparency, Accountability, Membership Engagement, Stewardship, and leader ship. The association believes all persons should have access to affordable, high-quality, compassionate
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