obesity is affecting our children (Edelstein, 2009). Obesity is now considered one of the top ten health conditions in the world and it is estimated that over 66% of the United States population is overweight or obese(Edelstein, 2009). We must educate people of all ages the risks associated with obesity and put an end to this epidemic which leads to a lifetime of unnecessary co morbidities, lower quality of life, a quite possibly a lower life expectancy. The World Health Organization (WHO) describes
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Today, approximately 1 in 3 adults (34.0%) and 1 in 6 children and adolescents (16.2%) are obese (Healthy People 2020). This predispose the individual to cardiac diseases, stroke, and diabetes among other. Health education and scheduling a working implementation plan can go a long way in resolving the obesity challenge. Some of these interventions includes, scheduled exercises and adopting a healthy diet which do not require much of a cost to implement. The nurse need to include disease prevention
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community. • Address the influence of cultural diversity and vulnerable populations as they apply to the participating family’s community. • Explore the epidemiological influences within the participating family’s community. Select one Healthy People 2020 LHI that relates to your participating family’s community. • Develop 3 community nursing diagnoses that relate to the participating family’s community, based on the Community Assessment and Windshield Survey. • Identify 1 potential nursing
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problems faced by its members within the community. Another move would be to conduct regular health camps to monitor the health, heath education classes for the young and old alike. Create a general awareness on measures to prevent these deadly diseases. People
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TASK 1: APPLICATION OF COMMUNITY HEALTH & POPULATIONFOCUSED NURSING A. Identification of Community The community that I have choose is Harrison County, Indiana. Harrison County is located far down in the southern part of the state of Indiana its border is followed and made up of the Ohio River on the east side. The Blue River runs along the county's western border. Six counties are adjacent to Harrison County. The county has a total area of 486.52 square miles
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essential in maintaining the health of communities and educating about healthy living. Knowing and understanding the terms and definitions, dealing with the community and public health nursing is important to understand the picture as a whole. This paper will include pertinent definitions regarding community, and include a reflection of the family I have chosen to follow for this project. Community is defined as a group of people in the same geographical area, who share the same values, culture and
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Department of Transportation (2014) the state has the highest rate of drunk driving and there were more than 40,000 convictions for drunk driving in 2013, and in 2009 the number of alcohol related crashes resulting in fatalities were 238 people and injured 4,000 people. Out of all of the fatal traffic accidents in 2009 for Wisconsin, 45 percent of them were alcohol related and 40 percent of all fatal motorcycle crashes were also alcohol-related as well (Wisconsin Department of Transportation, 2014)
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caring-Influences clinical thought and action in community and public health nursing II: Diagnosis according to the Family Assessment results Nutritional guidelines-Overweight, Blood pressure and diabetes Link each diagnosis to a Healthy People 2020 LHI. Conducting a comprehensive and holistic assessment of participant family with consideration of the windshield Survey and Current research & develop a plan for the family & determine diagnosis. 3-5Legal and ethical considerations with the
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which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion [ODPHP], 2018). Environmental health has been linked to disease due to the interactions amongst people and their environment in which they are born, live, work and play. Healthy People 2020 propose sustaining a healthy environment is essential to “increasing quality of life and years of healthy life
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C228 – Community Health Nursing – Task 1 Student’s Name Western Governors University Identification of Community Nestled in Southern Indiana just west of Louisville, Kentucky and south of Indianapolis, Indiana is Dubois County, Indiana. Dubois County is comprised of the towns of Birdseye, Ferdinand, Holland, Huntingburg and Jasper. Of those towns, Jasper is the largest and is the county seat (Kelly School of Business, 2014). Over fifty-two percent of the population
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