Healthcare Article Reviews Samples For Students

Healthcare Class: Comparison and Analysis of Two Critical Articles

Introduction
This paper reviews the two critical articles written on American healthcare system. The author, David Goldhill, has narrated his personal experience of American healthcare system in his article “How American Health Care Killed My Father” (Goldhill 2). Whereas the other article “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills are Killing Us” written by Steven Brill is essentially a critique on the current US healthcare with much of its emphasis on current US President Obama’s healthcare policies recognized as ‘Obamacare’ (Brill 7).
The complexities of US health care system has raised countless debates and discussion in the American social ...

Introduction

In the United States, and in other developed countries, healthcare is treated more like a necessity than a benefit, contrary to the way how most developing countries prioritize the provision for healthcare and other health and wellness-related services, wherein it is perceived more like a luxury. This is one of the main reasons why there are a lot of thriving health and medical insurance companies in the U.S. and other developed countries. The citizens in those places are willing to pay a premium just to get the best healthcare services for themselves and their family members, who basically act as dependents in a family health ...

Abstract

In this paper, I will cover the issues of treating patients with dual diagnosis. Dual diagnosis is a condition when patients develop two disorders, and most healthcare professionals are not able to assist those patients in treating their conditions. A literature review reveals that lack of proper regulations and specialized treatment models are considered the main causes of low recovery rates among patients with comorbid disorders. Other issues include lack of patient motivation, education, compliance with treatments, etc. The available literature mainly criticizes the contemporary situation in healthcare when it comes to treating patients with comorbid disorders, but some approaches ...

Introduction

This paper aims at critically analyzing the role played by the knowledge possessed by nurses and how it helps in the delivery of services in health cares. The research also seeks to highlight the importance of the resources used by nurses to acquire the much-needed knowledge (Barker, 2009). The staffing crisis problem occurs when knowledge in the provision of care is limited in nursing. When nurses lack inadequate knowledge in providing care, it is equal to not having enough staff. The costs of healthcare are very high, which means that patients need to get the best form of care ...

Health care management is the profession that offers leadership and direction to the organizations that provide personal health services as well as units, departments, divisions and services in those organizations. This implies that healthcare management is necessitated by the nature of organizations which requires managers and other heads to provide leadership, coordination and supervision of employees. This is done so that organizations can achieve their goals which are not possible to attain through a single individual. It also implies that the complexity and scope of the tasks carried out while providing services area high to the extent that staff cannot ...

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Nurses' Experiences of Ethical Preparedness for Mass Health Emergencies and Healthcare Disasters: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Evidence
Healthcare ethics has been of higher importance as long as healthcare practice has existed. It is first necessary to explain that healthcare ethics is regarded as moral principles that are commonly considered as allowable and reasonable by the society. However, in spite of a universally stable set of ethical standards that direct the healthcare industry, there are many cases of these values on the verge of being violated. For instance, it is extremely possible that a medical worker will face an ...

Managed Competition

The article is about health reform in the United States. According to the author, one of the failures of the government of barrack Obama is the failure to reform the health care regardless of the fact that he had promised to make changes in the system. There are many people who die in the United States who should not have died. It is argued that most of the people who die are those who have no health insurance cover. The candidate had promised to come up with a method that would ensure that the entire citizen is covered. According to ...

Article Summation

Burns et al., (2014), in their research work, offer a critical appraisal on the uptake of health care services for childless low income adults who have just been enrolled into a public health insurance scheme. Eligibility for Medicaid (the U.S a governments’ insurance program) witnessed an expansion for eligible adults to include adults who fall below the federal poverty level (FPL) of 138%. However, the Supreme Court’s ruling which made this cap an option for states rather than an obligation meant that states could now extend the limit for persons to be covered under Medicaid Insurance. Among these ...

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The onset of the implementation of Electronic Health Records has had an effect on the professional and physical autonomy of highly trained professional physicians specifically in the healthcare organizations. Electronic Health Records trigger a certain take by HC professionals contributing to observable changes in Healthcare Organizations following a response from the HC professionals. Their response reflects the data collected from the physicians through interviews. The topic raises a controversy to whether the effects are more constraining due to the managers using the Electronic Health Records to exercise more control (McGimpsey, 2011). Some of the many positive effects that come with ...

Hospital CEO ad CIO perspectives on information technology issues in health care is a survey of 1400 US hospitals. The article is aimed at establishing the CEOs and CIOs think about Information technology I healthcare. The themes that were under survey are; implementation of electronic medical records and improving health care quality through information technology. Improved medical services include; security, accuracy and change management in hospitals. Other themes in this article include; healthcare supply chain, compliance with regulations, decision support systems, national database and consumer empowerment.
The article starts with an introduction to Healthcare Information Technology (IT) and how ...

An Article Review

Summary
In the article Commentary on a Framework for Multicultural Education by Karin F. Hammerich (2014), the purpose is to converse about whether a structure for multicultural education is necessary, following a line of investigation and study on cultural competency preparation. This article is about how multicultural aspects affected the quality of care offered by healthcare providers, especially the chiropractors. It also aims to uplift the proposal of expanding the educational college core curriculum in order to truly produce trained healthcare providers who will become diverse in terms of healthcare practices and services.
After researching, evaluating, and gathering details about ...

Healthcare ethics is sometimes also referred to as medical ethics or bioethics and simply defined, is a set of moral principles, beliefs, and values that guide medical practitioners in making important choices about giving medical care. Four core principles that define ethical responsibilities and within which medical professionals must act in the United States are: Autonomy which demands that the professional honors the patients’ right to decide on their own about the medical care to be given, Beneficence which on the other hand tasks the practitioner with the duty to assist the patients to enhance their own good, Nonmaleficence ...

Challenges in Integrated Healthcare SystemsOrganizations have to follow a good articulation of steps in order to regulate integration of healthcare systems. The primary aim of any healthcare organization is to provide a good medical facility to its patients and thereby increase its profits. The integration of healthcare organizations is a rapidly growing area. It is a viable option to provide best facilities to the patients. It makes their medical visits hassle free as the system brings all the specialties under than one roof and delivers it to the patients as a single package. Hospitals can also reduce the costs significantly by this approach. So, ...

1. State the purpose of the study and identify the problem.
The paper “Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities” by Lisa M. Black, presents research that was done on the attitudes of healthcare workers in Nevada regarding patient safety. The need to provide protection to patients in such settings is important as they are often profoundly affected by the prevailing beliefs and values that their caretakers have towards them. These cultural norms present an underlying problem when considering the results of poor patient care in a medical environment. The author’s intent ...

Abstract

This is a summary of the three religions Buddhism, Wiccan, and Jehovah Witnesses. This paper gives an insight into the healing perspective adopted by three religions: Buddhism, Wiccan and Jehovah’s Witness. It is a summary and what their faith is based on and how each faith approaches their healthcare. The paper gives an overview of how the three religions approach the subject of healing, and how this fundamental shift can be assimilated by healthcare practitioners for the purposes of improving health outcomes. Also comparing this to Christianity and what this will mean to you and how you will treat patients ...

Petrecca, L. (2012). 'Supersized' drinks on the way out in NYC. Accessed From http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012/09/13/supersized-drinks-on-the-way-out-in-nyc/57775970/1

This form of law is almost impossible to regulate on individuals considering that even if the supersized drinks are reduced to the 16-ounce cap, consumers still have the choice to consume more than one cup. A person may also opt to buy sugary drinks from the grocery and convenience stores which would not be affected by such law. To drink or not to drink is solely a personal choice. As such, a law seeking to reduce the quantity of supersized drinks as a way to improve health is myopic. Instead the government should endeavor to change the mentality of the consumers through ...

Abstract

Spirituality involves actions and attitudes based on the belief there is a supreme being and hope even when faced with challenges. The incorporation of spirituality in the provision of nursing care facilitates the improvement the patients’ emotional, social and psychological health. This helps them in coping with the challenges associated with their ailments. Though this is a concept supported by most nurses and patients, it has not been effectively incorporated in nurse training. Its effectiveness relies on the nurses’ ability to understand ad apply this concept. The paper explores a research study carried out to determine nurses’ understanding and view on spiritual ...

In an era dominated by peace, citizens are more inclined to look into economic growth and development. In particular, individuals look at how economic growth will manage to make their lives or that of their loved ones better. In this perspective, a candidate aspiring to seek a position of power must provide their intended proposition on tackling economic issues. On the case of candidates seeking re-election, their previous record is scrutinized and compared with that of the contender. In the prevailing times, the biggest issue is how an individuals can be able to affect the per capitata income and output. Per ...

Culture can be termed as a pattern of customs, ideas, and behaviors that are shared by a particular group of people in a given society (Jeffreys, 2015). Culture has vast influence on health. It affects beliefs about a certain disease, perceptions of health, health promotion approaches, how to express pain and illness, where and how patients seek medical help and the type of treatment that patients prefer.
In western industrialized societies like the United States, a disease is as result of natural scientific phenomena and medical treatments are considered as the best method to treat the disease (Jeffreys, 2015). ...

Search Method

For the purposes of this paper an electronic search was conducted using the following databases:
CINAHL Complete
ProQuest Health & Medical Collection
Ovid
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Google Scholar
The search parameters included English-only, peer-reviewed articles published between the years 2010 and 2016.
The following keywords were used in the search:
Postpartum depression
Screening
Quantitative
Program
Education
The search produced a total of 1772 publications. The abstracts from these articles were screened and six studies were determined to be relevant to postpartum depression education and screening programs. Among these studies were one systematic review, one quantitative cohort study, two qualitative ...

The American hospital system is in a state of crisis. On the one hand there is competition to increase the profits that hospitals generate. On the other hand there is a concerted effort to improve the quality of care that is delivered by them. In some sense, these are competing values insofar as quality healthcare is an expensive proposition. Medical error accounts for a large portion of the failure in quality as well as the perceived lack of quality in care. In some respects, medical error is unavoidable. Physicians are humans and they will make mistakes. Furthermore, many hospitals are also teaching ...

New low back pain in nurses: work activities, work stress and sedentary lifestyle

In "New Low Back Pain in Nurses: Work Activities, Work Stress and Sedentary Lifestyle," Yip (2003) investigates the prevalence of new low back pain (LBP) in nurses as it relates directly to amounts of physical work and psychological stress endured in healthcare settings. A 12-month prospective study was conducted using 144 nurses from six Hong Kong district hospitals, in which the participants completed face-to-face baseline interviews with telephone follow-up sessions. Questions in the study included demographic characteristics, work activities and stress, as well as physical leisure and the extent and occurrences of new low back pain. Self-reporting was also ...

VA Hospital

When considering the VA, many do not think about the technology behind the institution. By some it is considered run down and dreary, too behind the times to have the technology necessary to draw hackers out of their lairs. By others it is considered a medical stronghold for America’s soldiers. By those who work at the Veteran’s administration, they are aware that since 2009, 181 pieces of electronic medical equipment were infected with Malware, leaving them vulnerable to cyber attackers and hackers.
One may ask why a cyber attacker would target the Veteran’s administration, or what ...

The Past Health Care Initiative

In order to solve the problems regarding the increasing cost on health care, different organizations in the United States developed a new integrated system wherein the components such as the system’s organization, the financing division, and healthcare processes are all assimilated into one governing system. The organizations believed that this new system, which is coined ‘managed care,’ will provide an adequate healthcare to all patients while preserving the resources (Shortell, Gillies, & Anderson, 1994).

Similarity and Difference

However, the article was written prior to the establishment of the Clinton health care initiatives, thus, there were changes that happened when the new initiative ...

The Effect of Medicare and Medicaid on the Social Work Field

Introduction
The American society is at the cusp of transformative change. With Baby Boomers of the sixties now reaching retirement age, the proportion of older people in society is going to increase. A smaller base of working population will have to support a larger slab of older people. As a result, existing frameworks of social security, Medicare and Medicaid would prove inadequate. New ways and means need to be explored to sustain the concept of an equitable and caring society that has been built in the USA. In this context, it is essential to explore the effect of the changing ...

In the near future, the healthcare problems in the U.S will worsen while new challenges arise. Even though various forms of new technology are on the verge of increasing efficiency, the overall costs for new treatments add outweigh the savings (Niles. 2011). The physicians will get better in treating problems while at the same time lengthening patients’ lives. This increases the levels of people in need of care. Similar to the automobile insurance policies, the healthcare coverage will be necessary (Matcha, 2003). Members of a family will use different plans through changing plans yearly. The uninsured citizens in the past ...

Executive Summary

In their article “Specialties: Missing in Our Healthcare Reform Strategies,” authors Kuramoto and Kieffer discuss the possibilities and advantages of working with specialties to create viable referral systems and networks. In the summary, they note that specialties are often in greater demand by hospitals than there are practitioners to meet that demand. Even with this distinct employment advantage, specialists often choose to remain independent from hospitals and care networks. By doing so, they create their own system which often offers higher satisfaction and better results. Despite this setup, specialists and hospitals still stand to gain significant advantages from allying ...

This essay analyzes the published article: “Overuse of Antibiotics Spurs Vicious Cycle” (Jun 2010). The article is published by Dr Joseph Mercola on his website: “Mercola. Com: Take control of Your Health” and seeks to educate and persuade readers that current overuse of antibiotics in treating people is likely to cause patients to develop resistance to the drugs, which can have a residual effect for as much as a year after the medication is ended.
Summarizing Mercola’s article, he uses logos in suggesting that the more these antibiotics are prescribed routinely to treat mild illness such as coughs and ...

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Introduction

Obesity in children forms a major health problem as it could lead to complications in future. Rising numbers of obese children below the age of three, especially among the Hispanic population requires greater attention from the US healthcare authorities and appropriate healthcare policies need to be sufficed for dealing with the problem. Research article by Taveras et al (2010) that deals with the risk factors associated with obesity in Hispanic children, which was found to be relevant in this context, is reviewed and discussed in detail.

Health policy issue that addresses Hispanic population

The policy issue in the article that concerns the Hispanic population is ...

Discussion on Ethical Issue

The situation at the healthcare institute on moral grounds is not sound at all. The aggravated situation is caused by the added financial stress that is faced due to the Affordable Care Act and changing reimbursement strategies. Human Resource in the institution is lacking due to the reason that we have not opted to recruit any further new graduate nurses in order to tackle the financial stress that the institution is facing. Morally the situation is worsened, as the institution will have to deal with the situation with the remaining registered nurses. Human Resource is not that much which ...

Response to Post of Student 1:

I am convinced that the main paint being relayed was that at the onset, by having decided to pursue the profession in healthcare, practitioners have already manifested a genuine and innate drive or motivation to serve. Healthcare is such a challenging and dynamic endeavor that entices only those with distinct calling for the profession. As such, valance, or the perceived importance of the work is duly ingrained. Likewise, other motivational components (self-efficacy and expectancy) become motivating drives depending on the value systems and preferences of health workers. One therefore agrees that the provision of appropriate incentive systems could make the work ...

What are the specific financial, social, cultural, and other issues mentioned in the article that are impediments or barriers to Ms.Kaur receiving the care she needs for her eye condition?

Primarily Ms Kaur is denied treatment due to the fact that she is an immigrant and comes from India with her earnings level above that of Medicaid putting her in a complete quandary which is grossly unfair. The American healthcare system with all its complexities is also a huge barrier to Ms Kaur’s eventual treatment as she suffers substantially from discrimination even though her earnings are higher than the poverty ...

The delay problems arose from the failing of the software. A system that worked well with one team or one project could easily fall when used on a different team. The waterfall approach was also to blame for the delay problems. The system relied on the mass launch rather than a sequential launch of the software (Bright pg 2).
Why has the Waterfall Method "stuck around"? i.e. why is it still in use?
The Waterfall method has stuck around since waterfall method mostly offers the stepwise approach to any problem. It shows the developers the steps and the ...

Could there be a way for consumers to gain information on their predisposition to diseases or to tailor fit health care according to their genetic predisposition? Due to the onset of high technology, it is now possible for people to acquire their genetic information through direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing of personal genetic (PG) and personal genomic (PGM) testing. This is especially useful when they want to be knowledgeable about their inherited susceptibility to disease or to have disease treatment tailored fit. Direct to consumer genetic testing has both risks and potential benefits. I believe that consumers should have direct access ...

Introduction

Korrane in the article “The Role of the Long-Term Acute Care Hospital” discusses the complexity that defines long-term health care where patients present themselves with a wide range of system failures, organ transplant complications, trauma brain injuries, acquired brain injuries and complex wounds. These failures do not just require a need to be treated to facilitate normal physiologic functioning but also hold a significant concern for the patient’s survival. Korrane notes that the most challenging aspect is to monitor a host of dysfunctions of the vital body organs and implement the most reliable techniques to help the patient regain a normal life.

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Rationale

It is apparent that the entire healthcare system is grappling with nursing shortages-a phenomenon that is characterized by improper nurse-patient ratios. This has adamantly hampered the quality of care provided and adversely affecting patient outcomes and satisfaction. According to the American Nurses Association, proper staffing and hence patient-nurse ratios is an integral aspect in improving the quality of healthcare provided. High nurse-patient ratios means that nurse have to deal with huge numbers of patients leading to clinical errors, clinically acquired infections or premature discharges from hospital. This leads to high readmission rates and increased hospital costs due to recurrence ...

Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity

Patients who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
This article discussed the proper assessment and management of a patient who may be lacking with decision-making capacity (DMC). The lacking of decision-making capacity is the patient’s condition in which oftentimes diagnosed as to be suffering from dementia, delirium, or other psychiatric issues. Specifically, this article provided hospital discharge against medical advises (AMA) as an example, wherein a patient who lacks decision-making capacity would demand to leave the hospital. It was described that being discharged from the hospital against medical advice would occur to a higher chance of readmission and has been linked to higher ...

Introduction

Emergence of image guidance technology
Today’s computer-aided healthcare technology relies on much modality medical image and multimedia information. An image-guided radiation therapy was introduced due to the ever-increasing challenges originating from fast growth of the information technology sector and the global expansion of healthcare needs. Image guided technologies aid in the effective management of patients in the areas of detection, diagnosis and intervention. The image guidance technologies is a process that uses frequent imaging during a radiation therapy in order to improve accuracy and precision in delivering of treatment (Peters & Cleary 2008). Before the introduction of image guidance technology, ...

National health insurance by the current American regime is actually a good indication that the country has decided to avoid bad health. This may seem clear except for the fact that the insurance system is meant to reduce the expenses of a nation without necessarily making the person lose track of other expenses. This may be the case of America if the citizens did not have to have a rigid system of healthcare insurance. I must commend the idea of having a live insurance plan for the citizens but for the need to pay heavily for it. Currently, Americans tend to be the ...

Introduction

This article is authored by Hilary Lloyd and Stephen Craig. Hilary is a principal lecturer specifically in Nursing Practice, Development and Research in Sunderland, Unite Kingdom. The co-author, Stephen Craig is a senior nursing lecturer in Northumbria University, in Newcastle, United Kingdom. The title of the article is “A Guide to Taking a Patient’s History”. The article was accepted and published in the journal called “Nursing Standard”. The article was published on the twenty fourth or August in the year two thousand and seven.

Summary of the Article

The article is focused on the process of taking patient history. In authoring the article, Llyod & Craig ( ...

Summary of the Four Elements of Financial Management

Healthcare industry is riddled with high operation costs. In most instances, the revenues generated from offering medical services far exceed the revenue received from offering such services. As a result, facilities incur huge losses during their operation periods. Financial management information is very vital for controlling these costs through its four elements. To begin with, financial management begins by measuring the quantitative and qualitative performance of a healthcare facility. In addition to measuring the financial strength of the facility, they also measure the quality of care and the level of patient satisfaction. By using diverse categories of measures, health facilities can ...

Musculoskeletal pains are common and disabling condition to the elderly. Conditions predisposing people to rheumatic pain such as osteoarthritis and conditions of the soft tissue which include tendonitis are generally incurable. Pain management being paramount to maintain quality of life is diverse and unique for each patient. Management involves a combined use of non-pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical treatments which begin with educating the patients.

They are then encouraged by healthcare professionals to practice personal goals and be attentive to healthy habits including exercise and weight control. Although Studies on the efficacy of herbals and supplements on the elderly have proven limited, ...

Introduction

Provision of excellent health care services should be the key objective for any professional health practitioner. According to health policies and regulations, health care practitioners are required or expected to act within the Hippocratic Oath as stipulated by the governing policies and principles. One of the core principles or standard which a health practitioner is expected to uphold is to ensure maximum life protection is offered or created to the involved clients. Lack of meeting or adhering to such principles can be termed to be negligence of one’s duty. Consequently, the aftermath associated with negligence of duty can be ...

Article critique

The title of the study provides a clear and succinct indication of the issues which will be touched on in the main study. The issues which will be discussed in the study includes nurse staffing, nurse work schedule and patient mortality have been clearly captured. Such a realization provides the reader with a sneak preview of what to expect when they read the study.

Abstract

The abstract of the study provides a clear breakdown of what the reader should expect to see while reading the paper. The problem of the study has been clearly stated as the independent effects which ...

Article Critique: Postpartum depression in mothers

FULL REFERENCE:
Kozhimannil, K. B., Trinacty, C. M., Busch, A. B., Huskamp, H. A., & Adams, A. S. (2011). Racial and ethnic disparities in postpartum depression care among low-income women. Psychiatric Services.

RESEARCH QUESTION:

Are there are racial or ethnic differences and disparities in the prevalence of postpartum depression among African American, Hispanic, Native American, and White women?

RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS:

In the context that there exist significant knowledge and evidence gaps on other ethnic and racial groups in regard to the prevalence of post-partum depression, there is a high correlation between postpartum depression in low income African American women as compared to their White ...

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is also known as the ObamaCare is a healthcare reform in the laws of the USA that improves and expands access to curbs spending and care via taxes and regulations. The major focus of this act is to provide more American citizens with easy access to affordable health insurance, regulating the health insurance sector, improving the quality of healthcare as well as health insurance, reducing the amount spent on health care in the United States. There are many different provisions in the Act that are used to address the different aspects of health care ...

Numerous industries in the United States have adopted the quality improvement policy in order to enhance certain practices as well as their outcomes. Among these industries is the health care industry whereby quality improvement strategies play a vital role in relation to supporting the public health system as well as improvement of outcomes. Due to this, leaders of public health are coming up with certain quality improvement approaches that are to be applied in public health settings (AH, 2009). The increase in demand of quality improvement in public health has led to growing accountability expectations. The quality improvements in ...

This is a review on the article titled Factors Affecting the Demand for Healthcare Services in the Philippines authored by Ching in 1992. Ching (1992) asserts that health care demand is an intricate subject because the various factors involved vary from person to person. Some of the predominantly noticeable factors predisposing populations to increased or decreased demand for health care services include socio-economic status (Johnson et al., 2006), physician supply, policies and beliefs of a nation (Niessen, Grijseels & Rutten, 2000), risk behaviors of a population, and finally, health status.
Some of the strengths of this article include a succinctly ...

Question 1. How do the economic inequality in our society place additional burdens on the working-class and the poor families?

Answer. The economic inequality brings the consequence of varying income capabilities for the families which further brings economic disparity in terms of disposable income available to them. As the essential amenities including the primary healthcare, education, food, lodging, clothing, and amusement facilities are almost evenly priced for all the economic level families, managing the expenses for above amenities becomes an extremely costly affair for the working-class and poor ones. Therefore, in the case of a healthcare emergency (say child healthcare) the management and arrangement of extra income resources become the vital questions that can be addressed only by placing ...

- GE’s main businesses are around the sectors of commercial finance, infrastructure, energy, healthcare and transportation. Healthymagination is an initiative by Jeffery Immelt, the current CEO of GE conglomeration. Innovation and entrepreneurial spirit among managers are the key values that govern the GE culture in the age of healthymagination. Jack Welch had promoted an organizational culture that focused on lean management and productivity, but Immelt is focusing on quick problem solving and entrepreneurial initiatives. “Imagination at work’ is the favorite punch line used by Immelt to drive the business.

As per the culture carved by Immelt, the ...

CDC Trends and Analysis

The health of Americans requires improvement in various areas and Healthy People 2020 focuses on improving the Health of Americans by:

- Identifying and prioritizing health improvement opportunities through research and evaluation
- Bringing together all relevant stakeholders including communities for a collaborative effort
- Empowering people for informed decision making (Healthy People 2012)

Improvement Suggestions

Cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers is highlighted as one key factor affecting the health of a population (Perez and Luquis, 2008). Consequently, Healthy People should list cultural and linguistic competency among healthcare providers as a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) that will help improve the nation’s health through reduction of health disparity. This should be followed by continued effort to increase ...

Abstract

Statistics have confirmed that children with Down syndrome are at a higher risk of suffering from obesity. The understanding of some of the risk factors that can increase obese cases among Down syndrome children is therefore vital among primary caregivers. The adoption of an effective and early management and screening mechanisms addressing diabetes risk facts will be of critical importance in reducing excessive weight gain among children suffering from Down syndrome. The adoption of reliable and sustainable strategies will also be of essence in dealing with negative psychological and physiological outcomes associated with obese.
Modern scientists and health care ...

The Physician assistants’ practice was introduced in the United States of America during the late 1960s. The introduction of Physician assistants was to address the shortage of doctors (Hooker, Roderick and Everette, 20) Physician assistants have provided remarkable support to the physicians alongside the nurses in the USA. Their contribution especially in the primary healthcare can, therefore, not be underestimated. The increase in the physician assistants’ number over the years has been due to the global shortage of primary care doctors. The employment of the physician assistants has been a reasonable strategy in the primary healthcare provision in diverse populations ( ...

Tort Law

Tort Law Article Review
The article was written by Becca Aaronson and was published at the New York Times in January 2013. It was about the case of Connie Spears who later suffered from legs amputation after an initial alleged misdiagnosis of her medical condition at Christus Santa Rosa hospital. The concept of this article is about the Tort Law's provision when it comes to being a state law that would help the people within the state of Texas. It aims to show how the Tort Law’s provision could affect an individual’s case proceedings right after it ...

Article Summary

The article explores the efficacy of the Active Generations program designed to combat the rising rates of obesity in USA. The Active Generations program is an intergenerational program that brings together the older generation as active participants in the prevention and control of obesity as a health issue that affects the community. The article begins by describing the current status of health. As per current statistics, the article describes that, since the 1980s, the prevalence of obesity and overweight among the populations has dramatically increased. The article indicates that the total populations of Americans, 65% are overweight, and a further 30% ...

Article Reviews: Law

Article 1: Question: Please review this article and respond with your thoughts on how this type of law may or may not go too far with respect to regulation of the individual.
In light of the serious obesity problem in the U.S., there is certainly a case for legislating to help those who lack the knowledge or the willpower to reduce their calories intake. Human nature being what it is, many people either find it difficult to resist those extra snacks or calories in drinks, so curbing the sale of the larger-sized sugary drinks could be seen as a positive ...

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Introduction

Childhood obesity is considered as a serious healthcare problem affecting children, from a very young age. As childhood obesity could lead to early death and other serious health issues in future, the issue requires greater attention from the healthcare authorities at various levels. Though the intensity of the problem might vary, childhood obesity forms a serious concern for almost all the nations across the world and so appropriate policies need to be taken at national as well as international levels for dealing with the issue. De Onis, Blossner & Borghi (2010) in the study on the global trends in child obesity ...

` Literature Review
Will the implementation of strict count process and other means lower the retention of surgical items (foreign bodies) in patients and during surgery and how does it help to increase patient safety?
Ali, A., Omar, B., Okacha, N., Abderrahmane, A., & Mohamed, B. (2012). Paraspinal Textiloma. After Posterior Lumbar Surgery: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing. World Neurosurgery, 77(2)375-380. doi:10.1016/j.wneu.2011.07.017
Paraspinal Textiloma is a complication that is common after posterior lumbar surgery. This study aims to inform spinal surgeons and radiologists on the experience of Paraspinal Textiloma so as to minimize unnecessary death that is ...

“How Will Genetic Technology Shape Personalized Medicine?”By Colleen Cancio, published on Discovery Fit & Health online magazine, gives a brief insight into personalized medicine. Initially, Cancio observes that contrary to the general perception, the practice of personalized medicine dates back to the ancient times of Hippocrates. He states that Hippocrates prescribed different elixirs to different patients (Cancio). In general, Cancio focuses briefly on three aspects: background information on genetic technology and personalized medicine, the genetic technology that are being applied currently in the practice of personalized medicine, challenges of their use in personalized medicine, and how they will influence healthcare ...

Article Critique

The article “The Importance of Supporting Mothers Who Breastfeed” by Rachel B. Barrientos and Paula Bylaska-Davies addresses the benefits of breastfeeding for child and maternal health as well as discusses the role that healthcare professionals play in encouraging breastfeeding and in educating parents about the benefits of breastfeeding. The authors reference several researches that have revealed that breast milk is very effective for preventing diseases, including those that develop later in life, it is an ideal natural source of nutrients and can even become a way to save money. The only frequently reported disadvantage of breastfeeding is nursing in public ...