Essays on Factors Associated

Previous studies reveal that mental health conditions affect a significant percentage of the population. For example, statistics of mental health in England in 2014 showed that approximately one in three men was suffering from mental health with women reporting higher incidences than men (Rise in Mental Healthcare, 2016). The figures are too large to ignore. Studies of populations at risk of mental health have taken different dimensions. While some studies have focused on the prevalence, other studies have attempted to investigate the risk factors associated mental health disorders. According to Bitsko et al. (2016), a combination of sociodemographic, community, ...

Software engineering over the past decade has seen a tremendous drop in their level of professionalism. Risk factors associated with the decline in professionalism level are poor software qualities, a high cost of software development, failed deadline, poor implementation, poorly coordinated stages of software development, lack of proper staff motivation, and low return on investment. More surprisingly, a lot of unqualified and inexperienced software developers regularly are being hired to run software development at the expense of qualified software developer who has abandoned the industry and left to ruin. Statistics indicates that over 80 percent of software developments projects ...

Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention

Teen Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention The proposed public health leadership theory was developed to identify public health interventions that can address risky sexual behavior in teenagers, which is associated with teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence in teenagers. The risk factors contributing to risky sexual behaviors in the teenage population and the interventions public health leaders can use to address those factors are presented in Figure 1. Figure 1. Public health leadership theory on interventions for addressing risk factors associated with risky sexual behaviors in teenagers. Teen sex behaviors can be influenced by their socioeconomic ...

Discussion

There are ten exemplary early childhood programs outlined in the article. While all of the programs have specific features, which make them excellent, other programs seem to stand out as compared to others. One such program is the Children’s Village Child Care Center located in Philadelphia. What makes this program exemplary is the fact that it exhibits open communication, which transcends the obstacles presented by language and cultural barriers. The program embraces families with a myriad of diversities given that it is located in an urban setting. It unites and enables interactions of families of diverse constellations, economic ...

<Institution> Few months ago, on March 17, two daughters of Van Cliburn, an award-winning pianist, were found dead on their Benbrook home (Parry, 2016). Police reports revealed that Sofya Tsygankova, the estranged wife of Cliburn and the mother of the victims, killed her daughters by smothering them with pillow (Parry, 2016). This case is just one of the many cases of filicide ever reported. Merriam-Webster (2015) defines filicide as “the murder of one’s own daughter or son.” Each gut-wrenching case of filicide makes people’s mind wonder about how parents can possible cause an end to the ...

Diabetes is among the key health problems and one of the most widespread chronic illness in Alameda County that affects a conservable number of individuals. According to Alameda County Public Health Department (2014), about 6.4 adults in the county were diagnosed with the disease in 2014. Although, the disease is reported across all populations, various populations are at a higher risk in regard to the illness. In regard to this, American-Indians, African-Americans, Asians and Hispanics are among the key populations at risk of having the disease mainly due to genetic predisposition. In addition, individuals older than forty five years ...

Health Belief Model

In the past century, many health-based models have been developed and implemented in order to help nursing professionals to identify and incorporate key factors in improving patient-centric services and health outcomes. The Health Belief Model (HBM) is one such model that is associated with the psychological and health behavioural change model associated to change and predict health-related behaviours. The HBM was developed to be incorporated and adopted by healthcare services (Dardis MR, Koharchik LS, Dukes S. 2015). The HBM was developed by key psychologists in 1950 in the US. It is one of accepted theories in the US with ...

Healthcare facilities nowadays offer online services through their intranet services. Many patients however prefer researching about their healthcare conditions through the internet and knowing what they are suffering from before making the big step of going to the hospital. The Internet is however flogged with medical precisions which include symptoms, diagnosis and possible curative measures ("eHealth Initiative | A Report on the Use of Social Media to Prevent Behavioral Risk Factors Associated with Chronic Disease", 2016). For instance, there are medical institutions, which have Internet channels on YouTube for instance. They use these channels to air surgical procedures or basic ...

Abstract

Many behaviors showed by children and adults are learned from television shows, movies, and novels. Fictional characters in a movie demonstrate specific types of behaviors that viewers and readers end up adopting in reality. The analysis of a movie helps in associating these characters to a specific psychological disorder. The aim of the paper is to analyze the character of Ariel in the Disney Movie Show “The Little Mermaid.” Ariel demonstrated hoarding disorder in the cartoon movie. The behavior of keeping many items in an untidy manner characterizes the disorder. Risk factors associated with the disorder include personality, age, ...

Several debates on legalizing the drug use with a lot of opposition to legalizing because there are major concerns on the public health effect of the drugs. A lot of evidence has shown drug has a threat to public health and community safety. If drugs are legalized their availability and intake would be increased hence increased negative health impacts. There exist different types of illegal drugs that include marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, amphetamines and club drugs. In this paper, the safety of the community will be analyzed if any type of drug is legalized. The factors associated with drug ...

Across most of the globe, the percentage of elderly persons has increased radically. The elderly frequently have outlived a spouse, particularly women, and find themselves living alone on a pensioner’s income. This population is particularly at risk for malnutrition. This paper will discuss some of the sources of nutritional risk, how they can be assessed, interventions available to a gerontological nurse practitioner, and some community resources. 1. Causes of malnutrition among the elderly As individuals age, physiological changes in several systems take place that can impact nutrition, specifically perceptual, renal, gastrointestinal systems (Guigoz, Vellas, & Garry, 1996). Also, chronic ...

Identifying the causes of aggression and pointing out ways to reduce or eliminate them can help to reduce aggression in both people and society. Understanding the importance of addressing aggressive behavior is important in limiting unwanted outcomes such as harassment, violence, and death. There are five major categories of aggression that should be assessed. These include gun legislation, reduction of media violence, understanding the social context of terrorism, reduction of self-harm, and values and regulations for activities such as bullying. Through analysis of these factors, a more informed perspective on how to reduce aggressive behaviors can be achieved. In ...

Abstract

The United States health sector continues to record more cases of breast cancer among women. The incident rates of breast cancer vary considerably with racial and ethnic categories, with Asian women reporting lower rates. Healthcare practices, lifestyle, and risk factors associate with the high prevalence of breast cancer among Asian women (Gomez, Quach et al., 2010). Purpose: The objective of the study was to determine factors associated with the high prevalence of breast cancer among Asian women. Methods: The study used correlation quantitative study design. A group of 200 Asian women diagnosed with breast cancer between 2010 and 2013 ...

The article to be discussed here is “The Positive Effects of Cognitive-Behavioral Programs for Offenders: A Meta-Analysis of Factors Associated with Effective Treatment,” by Nana A. Landenberger & Mark W. Lipsey (2005). The writers set out to prove that the meta-analysis of their own studies, and those of others, will better determine and measure the success of CBT. When identifying variables not necessarily addressed in other studies, and using meta-analysis for this purpose, the authors were better able discern what works and what doesn’t. They speculated that some variables in previous studies did not take into account certain factors ...

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Introduction Job planning is an essential factor for the success of an organization in the competitive business environment. It is important to design a compensation plan that will help to motivate an employee toward his job to improve the productivity of the organization. The compensation package is the necessary element for the success of human resource management. It helps in appraising the performance of the employees and keeps them happy with their job. The paper has been developed to understand the job of a Human Resources Representative for the PenFed Credit Union and prepare a job description for the ...

PATERNAL POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

Introduction Postpartum depression (PPD) affects both the father and the mother after childbirth. It is also referred to as postnatal depression. Currently, most of the studies and clinical practice have devoted much time to the maternal postpartum depression thus ignoring the psycho-social problems faced by new fathers. The lack of attention on the paternal postpartum depression (PPD) has significantly contributed to the reasons why paternal postpartum depression is widely unknown phenomenon today (Demontigny, Girard, Lacharite, Dubeau & Devault 2013). Fathers have been significantly affected by the coming of the newborn babies into the world as much as mothers are. It ...

Abstract

People all over the world have a deep concern for their health, taking whatever steps available to ensure that they observe a proper lifestyle and live a risk-free life. In adopting their lifestyle, the people have to shun some behaviors and adopt others. This process of acquiring some behavior while avoiding others involves the use of a model of behavior. This essay looks at how an individual can shun the unhealthy eating behavior and adopt a healthy one. To do this, the essay will compare the health belief model and the planned action model to assess which of the two would be most effective ...