Essays on Health Behavior

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Clinical Question What would be the effect of competitive food and beverage (CF&B) policies on student weight outcomes in comparison to the students who have not followed the CF&B policies and those who have followed some other policy according to which some of the competitive foods are available to students?

How the clinical question indicates the type of study that will be done (quasi-experimental vs. experimental)?

This clinical question is showing the comparison of two groups. One comparison is that of the students following CF&B policies with the students who have not followed these policies. Second comparison is that of the students following CF&B policies with the students who have following some ...

Abstract

Numerous attempts to reform health care in the United States on the federal level have been made since the 1930s, but differences between each state represent a significant barrier to every previous federal health care reform. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, but the current implementation and effects of the law are not the same across different states. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the effects of the health care reform in California and Florida, as well as the positions of the two states. It was found that the insurance ...

Introduction

Positive social change can be one of the most significant factors in order to improve various aspects of human lives. There are various types of social change agents and each of them holds different characteristics. One of which is the ultracommitted change-maker. In definition an ultracommitted change-maker are the individuals who are dedicated in providing positive change in the society using their personal actions and philosophy (Walden University, 2013). If given the chance to be an ultracommitted change-maker, there are many things that I would like to do in order to improve the society.

Ultra-Committed Change-Maker

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) became a federal statute in March of 2010 (H. R. 3590, 2010). The PPACA required that group health plans and health insurance issuers cover all applicants for health insurance without regard to pre-existing conditions or sex of the applicant. Dependent insurance is required to cover uninsured children up to the age of 26. The PPACA further required that group health plans and health insurance issuers provide a stipulated minimum standard benefit at the same rates for everyone. Subsidies were available for eligible individuals, small business, and families. Government subsidies were made ...

1. Recommend the type or types of research you would propose. Answer. Owing to the current situation of pre-crisis phase for the organization, the research should focus on the assessment of those factors that might help to save the organization’s image during the crisis (Coombs, 2014). Hence, a comparative crisis communication oriented qualitative research is recommended for the current situation (Schwarz, Seeger & Auer, 2016). The comparative crisis communication research will focus on comparing the situation of the victims at the San Diego and Atlanta stores before and after their collapse. 2. Determine what kind(s) of information you ...

Abstract

Eating habits at the fast food joints by the university students was assessed, and conclusions were made on the same.  The aim of carrying out this research is to determine and learn the changes related to eating behavior of students in tertiary education colleges. The motivation statement under abstract is to determine how college students are affected directly or indirectly by their eating habits. To determine the result, students in different departments were interviewed and asked to fill in open or close- ended questionnaires. After conducting the study, various findings were reached. Through the student’s poor eating habits, ...

Annotated Bibliography

Brewer, N.T., Chapman, G.B., Gibbons, F.X., Gerrard, M., McCaul, K.D., and Weinstein, N.D. "Meta-analysis of the relationship between risk perception and health behavior: The example of vaccination." Health Psychology, 26(2) (2007): 136-145.

The study examines the relationship between perceived risk of flu and health behavior shown by the people. The study informs how higher perceived risk can increase the immunization rate and result into positive health behavior of the people. The source is very useful in understanding health behavior shown by different groups of the people, and also in understanding how rate of flu immunization can ...

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Page limit: 3 pages (not including title page and references) You must stay within the page limit: In this class, students are required to keep the page limit so they can improve their writing skills - many grants, journals, clients have very strict page/word limits (submissions that are longer are often not accepted/admitted for review). So hopefully after this class, students will be better prepared for this challenge:) Grading rule: for each additional page (over the page limit) 1-2 points are deducted – this rule is enforced so the grading is fair for all the students

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Application of Transtheoretical Model vs. Health Belief Model

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Introduction

Recently many research strategies have developed to identify the most efficient methods to achieve healthier outcomes. An accurate combination of personal behavior and health improvement has proffered the novel approaches to behavioral and medical experts. The outcomes of such intervention studies have provided potent insights in various chronic and infectious diseases and many theories that gained high appreciation are designed to define the scope of nursing practices. Currently, many conceptual models are applied in health promotion and education (Glanz, Rimer & Viswanath, 2008). The essay aims to ...

Understanding the Navajo cultural beliefs and traditions is essential in improving a caregiver’s prediction of the health behavior of the tribal nation. The cultural beliefs in this group influence their health seeking behavior. Certainly, spirituality, beliefs, death rituals and healthcare practices are key to the welfare of the people of Navajo. The society is matriarchal as they belief that the universe belongs to the creator (goddess) they term as the First Woman or Spirit Woman. The women in the society have a higher position than that of men. Upon marriage, a man moves into a woman’s house. The major focus ...

Part 1

Self efficacy is the degree of a person’s belief in his ability to reach established goals and complete assigned tasks. This concept has been studied widely by psychologists through the many perspectives and developmental paths. Self efficacy can be seen in the resolve of an individual to stick to a diet or a workout regimen. High self efficacy or low self efficacy is one of the determining factors of as to whether or not a person will start a challenging task or will deem it impossible. Self efficacy transcends all aspects of human endeavor. By studying self efficacy, psychologists can determine the beliefs ...

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Theories in Nursing Abstract Health Belief Model has played a key role in predicting and understanding health behaviour. This paper studies the history and evaluation of the model, its description, applicability and a review of three articles on the appropriateness of the model. The paper cites one case of Osteoporosis healthpromotionprogramswhere the model was put into use in developing and implementing the program. Finally, the recommendation and conclusion of the model’s applicability and its relevance in nursing is provided. Key words: Health Belief Model, nursing, intervention, behaviour change Introduction According to Painter et al, (2008), theleadingcause ...

Introduction

Human resource management is the practice of allocating resources appropriately to achieve the firm’s objectives. Among its elements is taking care of the human resource by ensuring the employees are well represented and taken care of in order to yield positive returns in driving the firm towards its goal.

Article 1: Employee Engagement

Dr. Joe Folkman the president of Zenger Folkman says that developing the strength of leadership is important to helping employees abandon the prison mentality and enjoy happy and productive work (HRM Guide, 2012). According to him, making the average worker happy will increase their commitment. However, what makes people ...

Question: - 1 Identify the likely disease process responsible for the patient’s manifestations. Explain the evidence to support your interpretation. The likely disease process for this responsible for this patient’s manifestation is acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Supporting evidence from case study includes a HIV ELISA positive accompanied by a 5-day fever history, dyspnea, productive cough, and right sided pleuritic chest pain. Even though she does not admit to experiencing any chills, vomiting, headache or rashes there she experienced two pneumonia episodes within the past three years According to her reported history these pneumonias were not associated with ...

Human behavior is very essential in maintaining a good health, consequently preventing a lot of diseases. Obesity is the number one cause of death in America today; statistics shows that lack of intervention could lead to dire consequences in future. Health practitioners have thus taken a lead role in ensuring a remedy to this scourge, in that light, different strategies have been enforced by the nursing fraternity for quite some time. Growing evidence shows that effective program for health behavior change needs a multifaceted view, an approach that will help the people change and adopt, thus maintaining a particular behavior. Strategies have been formulated by ...

Introduction

Hypertension is one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses in America today (Thalacker, 2011). As such, it is important to implement interventions that will allow for the prevention of this disease. In this regard, this paper discusses the use of the Health Belief Model as a framework for developing health educational programs that aim to promote healthier behaviors among the population, particularly in relation to hypertension. This will be in consonance with the objectives of the Healthy People 2020 program, which advocates for the use of an ecological and determinants approach in the promotion of health and the prevention of ...

Part 1

Prison suicide is recognized as a serious yet underrated problem. In the United States, suicide is two times more common among prison inmates than in the general population (Arnaut, 2010). It is estimated that 200 prison suicides happen every year in the US (Suto & Arnaut, 2010). It is the third leading cause of deaths in the U.S. prisons after natural causes and AIDS (Metzner, 2002). The suicide rate in U.S. federal prisons is lower than the nationwide average (Federal Bureau of Prisons, 2012).

According to White, Schimmel & Frickey (2002), the prison suicide rate is often compared with the ...

Stimulus theory

Human being responds to alteration in internal and external environment, to produce a behavior that depicts their life. Availability of cigarette to someone for a long time makes him/her become acquainted with the smoking environment thus producing a stimulus effect. This stimulus effect makes one to view smoking as the order of the day and normal activity. Therefore, at the end of the day, the environment availability of the cigarette smoking and internal vision of smoking as order of the day result to smoking.

Social cognitive theory

Provision of the basic for intervention strategies help people acquire and maintain curtain behavior patterns. The strategies emanates ...