Essays on Health Promotion

Introduction. 2

Strategic Plan3 Program Description.5 Leadership Challenges..6 Ethical Implications..7

Engaging communities and building constituencies.7

Budgeting, financing, and human resources.8 Performance management & Health Informatics..9

Appendix 1 SWOT Analysis10

Appendix 2 SMART Objectives..11 Appendix 3 Budget..13 References15 Introduction In the past decade, chronic lifestyle diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart/cardiovascular disease and stroke have increased exponentially in the state of Minnesota. Sedentary lifestyle and poor diet has led to an increase in obesity which in turn has led to an increase in heart disease and stroke. Most adults in Minnesota have poor lifestyle which has increased their risk to heart disease and stroke. As per the Minnesota department of health, ...

According to the 2012 census, the United States total population is estimated to be over 313 million; this represents a 9.7% increase within a period of 10 years (Thomas, 2014). Moreover, the composition of the population is one of the most diverse in the world; it’s made up of people with different racial and ethnic backgrounds ranging from Caucasians or the Whites, the Blacks or African Americans, American Indian and Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islanders, and the Hispanics or Latinos. As a result, the diverse U.S. population has serious implications on the United States ...

There is the need for seeing to it that the care which patients receive has been founded on evidence since such a move is aimed at achieving improved outcomes on the patient. In the same regard, the way a patient is assessed assists in developing the best forms of care which will adequately address all their healthcare needs. Therefore, the questions which I would ask my patients during all their visits for the purposes of providing them with individualized services will include the following.

How many times have you visited this healthcare facility?

Have you ever received some vaccination in this facility? Have you ever been vaccinated in ...

Health people is a program under the office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion that provides 10-year national goals based on science and evidence to improve the health of all U.S. citizens. With this regard, the Healthy People 2020 was launched on December 2, 2010; it has for main goals aimed at improving the health status of the nation by 2020 and ensuring all Americans live long healthy lives (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, 2017). One of the goals from the Healthy People 2020 that will have the greatest impact on my community is the first goal ...

The transitional phase between childhood and adulthood is a stage in human development and growth commonly described as adolescence. This stage begins at the age of around 11 to 13 years with the start of puberty which means the development of the reproductive processes. In the United States, adolescence is defined as the age span of 10 to 24 years (Edelman, Mandle & Kudzma, 2014). Unlike childhood stages where growth is slow and steady, adolescence is a period characterized by rapid changes in cognitive, physical, psychosocial, moral and spiritual growth as the shift from childhood to young adulthood takes place. ...

Health promotion is a procedure conducted so as to help a patient improve and take control of his or her health. Having a heart attack implies that a blood vessel supplying to the heart has been blocked. After a heart attack incident, it is advisable to adhere to some measures, to prevent the possibility of heart failure in the near future. This topic is important because usually after a person is discharged from the hospital they immediately hop into living their lives as though nothing had happened. It is, therefore, essential for patients to be taught on how to ...

As far as an ADN is concerned, it offers few advantages as opposed to the acquirement of a BSN. To begin with, the principal difference between the two is the time period and credits’ amount required for the program completion. While an ADN can be usually completed in two years, the person requires 4 years to attain a BSN. In addition, an ADN program is cheaper and allows one to quickly become a nurse considering the above-mentioned time period for completion. On the other hand, it is widely acknowledged that “BSN prepared nurses possess greater knowledge of health promotion, ...

The main objective of any health care system is to provide patient care with desirable patient outcomes. Simply put, a health care system strives to promote well-being and heath status of all human beings. It is also important to note that most aspects of the healthcare focus on prevention and management of pain among patients because freedom from pain is an essential dimension of health. Additionally, pain among patients is a multidimensional phenomenon that requires a broad, integrated and a comprehensive care model (Glare et al., 2014). Many studies that have been carried out by various scholars on health ...

Question 1

The roles which nurses play in the health care provision process cannot be understated. Ensuring that ailing patients have had their emotional, physical and spiritual needs addressed goes a long way in making sure that such patients emerge with desirable positive outcomes. Similarly, the functions of the advanced practice nurses in the process of providing healthcare services to patients, educational processes and in providing leadership in such settings are equally vital in ensuring that the healthcare system runs in a smooth manner. Imogene King in her theory of goal attainment stresses on the need for ensuring accuracies regarding the ...

Health care has always been a basic human need and a part of the heritage of people. As a result, health care can be considered as a product of the collective efforts of the previous generations. Moreover, taking into account the fact that every human being represents the human race, he or she has an undeniable claim upon medical aid. However, despite the fact that providing health care is the state’s obligation, its fulfillment encounters numerous problems in the US. American health care has gone through significant historical changes that have led to the recognition of the health ...

Promoting Family Lifestyles

Question #1: Politics, Stress, and Sleep Research has shown where politics has a great influence upon who gets the best treatment for HIV infections in America. For example, the drug used in treatment of the condition is very is very expensive. As such, only persons who can afford treatment will be cured or relieved of the infection side effects (Parker, 2013).

References

Parker, P (2013). The Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic, Structural Inequalities, and the Politics of International Health. Am J Public Health. 92(3): 343–347. Question 2: Weight Management and Exercise – Weight Hysteria Research shows where society has placed ...

Introduction

The jewelry manufacturing and sales industry has been posting exponential growth rates in the past years. A lot of companies that operate in this industry have likewise exhibited significant upward growth rates. One of those companies is Pandora. Pandora is a Danish multinational corporation whose core business involves the manufacture and retail of jewelries. The company was founded in 1982 by Per Enevoldsen. The company was, at that time, engaged in small scale jewelry importation. It imported pre-manufactured jewelries from Thailand and sold it to its customers for a profit. Enevoldsen, upon seeing that there is a great potential ...

Part 1

Objective: in this critical analysis, you are expected to demonstrate an understanding of public health ethics and legal issues. Also, you are required to actively engage with the subject and come up with a substantial perspective on it.

Introduction

This critical analysis will outline the main purpose of the public health ethics and legal issues for protecting and upholding public health. Public policies and social programs are some of the aspects that constitute a good public health. Also, some patients with distinct issues contribute to the wellbeing of the public health, especially in a situation of unethical event regarding health ...

Nurses play a key role in the care and management of patients across various healthcare settings. Health promotion is a key segment among nursing clinical practice which has been followed and practice for over 5 decades. The concept of health promotion is closely related to the needs of the patient with a focus on faster recovery and improved quality of life. Most patients recover faster when nurses implement health promotional activities that not only help them but also reduces the rate of readmission or casualties arising out of self-care or poor home-based care and management (Edelman, Mandle, & Kudzma 2014). ...

Introduction

Historically, healthcare professional practiced in communities where they shared the same culture with those who seek various services. As such, this made it easy for the provision of health care at both individual and institutional levels. With the increase in population diversity in the nation as well as other regions in the world, health care provision has been affected by cultural and social factors that arise with the diversity in population composition (Marshall, 2005). In realization of this issue, it is imperative that health care professionals and institutions develop cultural competency. In this light, this paper will discuss issues ...

Introduction

An agreed definition of dementia is a syndrome caused in most cases by an array of illness which affects memory, reasoning, ability to carry out daily duties and communication skills. Ethical concerns not only on issues of dementia but throughout nursing practice are a pivotal point for the practice. The condition of dementia raises some ethical issues during treatment as the diseases affects a person’s ability to make sound decisions by themselves without assistance. Ethical issues in caregiving to patients with dementia come in different shape and sizes. For example, questions arise on whether a nurse should give ...

A windshield or a walking survey is a way of observing the community to note its characteristics hence aiding in the assessment of the community. From such a survey, it is possible to better understand the general or specific conditions or an aspect within the community. This technique is useful when the area to be surveyed is large with limited personnel but the aspects to be observed should be seen from the road. This survey helps community health providers to identify the needs of the community especially those relating to health. This study is an observational assessment that aims ...

Research current program and implement health and wellness program

Introduction Wellness Global proves to be one of the premier health and fitness centers that offer gym services by utilizing a chain of centers to ensure that they reach more clients. The company has a head office which primarily handles the appropriate office and paperwork which ultimately is devoid of a health and fitness program that caters for the employees at the head office. This paper will focus on creating a health and fitness program for the head office employees and report the same to the CEO.

Importance of health and fitness program to wellness global employees

Optimal health of the employees proves to be significantly influential to their ...

According to Edelman, Mandle, and Kudzma (2014), health promotion refers to the process of enabling individuals have or increase control over their health. This involves the consideration of social and environmental interventions that encourage healthy behavior and practices. Health care practitioners are required to uphold various values and encourage their adoption among patients to promote healthy living. However, these values may conflict with those held by patients, leading to an impasse between healthcare professionals and their patients. In such instances, it is advised by Edelman et al. (2014), that practitioners need to first understand the values held by patients ...

In the course of health promotion, health practitioners may be faced by ethical issues, or dilemmas, that may compromise their aim to promote health among their clients. As a result of the nature of the health environment and practice, such situations are inevitable and hence requires effective decision making. In my case, an ethical situation I faced when teaching health promotion strategies is that of confidentiality. The patient, an adolescent, had contracted a sexually transmitted illness but was afraid to inform her parents, who would be disappointed in her. The concept of patient-nurse confidentiality was a challenge to implement ...

Diabetes has become a major health problem in the 21st century and this is something that is majorly blamed on the rise of unhealthy lifestyles that annotated by increased inclination to unhealthy diets (fast foods) and lack of physical activity/exercise (Haas et al., 2013). The risk of developing diabetes increases with aging due to the physiological alterations that accompany the aging process. While genes and aging constitute the pathophysiology of diabetes, unhealthy diets and lack of physical exercise play a major role in increasing the overall risk of predisposition. Elderly people form a unique health group in as far ...

There are many determinants and health status of an individual or a society/ population. The social environment is one of the major aspects that affects health outcomes for an individual or a population (Nutbeam, Harris & Wise, 2010). Factors within the immediate social environment of a person; including diets, lifestyles and health beliefs play a vital role in shaping the concept of health. This being the case, when it comes to community health promotion, there is an accentuation to view a certain community with the lens of its unique social characteristics in order to understand the quality of interplay between ...

Career development plan

I started building up my career four years ago with a BA in Health and Social Care and later proceeded to further pursue an MA in public health. I gained a great interest to study public health after completing my coursework in people, places and inequalities and Health Promotion. The coursework is concerned with the general well-being of the community and public health. During my career development, I have worked with different types and groups of people from different departments and agencies. I have also worked as a clinic support worker set up in an NHS setting. I intend ...

Introduction

The healthcare system in Australia is termed as one of the most successful in the world when it comes to the delivery of good healthcare. Additionally, the health outcomes, as well as the control of costs by the system, are remarkably effective as stated by Hall (2015). Such achievements have however been achieved through the interaction of the public and private financial backing, public and private provision of services, and the sharing of key duties between the federal as well as the state governments (Hall, 2015). In the US, no single system of health insurance covers the nation. Health ...

According to Gulanick and Myers (2013), the nursing process has been identified as the most appropriate strategy which can be employed in trying to ensure that the most suitable care is provided to a particular individual. Ensuring that the patient gets the best out of the Caregiving process should form the primary objective of any nursing undertaking. Addition studies (de Oliveira et al. 2012; Weber and Kelley, 2013), show carrying out a thorough assessment of a patient is a significant step as it forms the basis of a care plan. Studies by (Papathanasiou et al., 2013; Morrissey, 2016) showed ...

The program design on the evaluation of health promotion and disease prevention focused on the state of the chronic disease. It was intriguing to learn that the effect of the chronic diseases has been appreciated to a negligible extent by the society and the various health institutions in relevance to the severe social and economic impact on the population (Fuster & Kelly, 2010, p. 26).The chronic disease is a national problem and as a result, consideration was in regards to the entire population from kids to the elderly, women to males. Chronic illnesses account for 60% of the total ...

As afore identified, mental health forms an area of concern in as far as the achievement of overall community health is concerned. The health outcomes of an individual are majorly determined by their state of mental health (Jorm, 2012). Mental health issues such as stress and depression have an enormous impact on an individual’s quality of life. These issues affect many spheres of life including; social, economic and health (Thoits, 2013). This being the case, there is the need for a health promotion intervention purposely intended to promote mental health. Achieving an optimal level of mental at a ...

The health of U.S. racial and ethnic populations In this article, the author David R. Williams presented different patterns of health differentials with the help racial and ethnic disparities within the United States. For that, he used racial statistics to describe the health condition of the United States. It also presents the immigrant status on the basis of their race and socioeconomic status (SES) and their impact on the patterns of the diseases. Therefore, the focus of this article is on the research of those social factors that lead to the change in the health status of a country ...

This article states that the inequality within the healthcare provision is evident across the 22 nations in Europe. Among these countries, there was a comparison that was conducted in relation to the opportunities in reducing health inequalities. Based on the study, almost all of the 22 countries have considerably high death toll as well as poor health self-assessment. This is especially among individuals who belong to lower socioeconomic status. However, such issue in health inequality can be addressed through educational improvement, equal household income distribution, and most especially, equal opportunities in relation to health access.

Evaluating the Public Health Impact of Health Promotion Interventions (pp.189-196)

Health promotion provides better ...

Introduction

Health is a state of mental, physical and social wellbeing and it is largely influenced by large number of interconnecting factors. Mental health is one of the most significant elements of health and it is an asset and ingeniousness that helps us deal with daily stresses of life. A well balanced mental health protects us and help avoid risk taking behaviours that contribute towards overall bad health. The present paper presents a comprehensive review of literature and data sources regarding mental health promotion. The following is a literature review of some of the recent mental health promotion research studies ...

Child Obesity

Health Promotion Plan Childhood obesity has become an epidemic that is threatening more and more families in the USA. Overweight and obesity are used to describe a person who has excess body fat which can lead to adverse effects on their health and well-being. This occurs when the energy intake from food and drinks is greater that the energy that the body spends doing physical activities. It was revealed that children who are overweight are at greater risk of having health problems when they reach the adolescent and adult stages. Some of these conditions include cardiovascular diseases, type 2 ...

Smoking has been evidently linked with the progression and exacerbation of coronary and hence cardiac conditions. Plaguing of the coronary arterial lumen due to smoking leads to the narrowing of the arterial lumen, hence leading to blockage of the coronary artery and subsequently, reduced cardiac output and the progression of a cardiac condition (Lloyd-Jones et al., 2010). In this regard, smoking cessation is pretty essential in arresting the exacerbation or progression of coronary disease after a post coronary intervention. In any health promotion intervention, evaluation of outcomes becomes an integral component as it places the implementer at a vantage ...

Health promotion is crucial aspect that helps individuals to effectively control various elements in their life aimed at enhancing their health and ultimately their overall wellbeing (Raczynski & DiClemente, 2013). In reference to case scenario, health promotion is an effective intervention that would help in enhancing the health of all the family members and significantly minimized their risk for various illnesses especially the chronic diseases. In the light of this, physical activity as well as healthy nutrition are among the most crucial topics relating to health promotion that would help in enhancing the family’s health and minimize their risk ...

Introduction

Globally, an alarming increased rate of diabetes diagnosis has been reported with over 380 million diabetic cases reported in 2015. Diabetes has been found to cause death, stroke, amputations, or kidney failure. The increased rate of this global epidemic has been fueled by urbanization and lifestyle. It is projected that by 2030, over 600 million people will be suffering from diabetes (Henderson & Barry, 2014). Based on the findings of the American Diabetes Association that examined the cost of diabetes treatment released in 2013, an estimated total cost of the diagnosed diabetes rose to $245 billion in 2012 compared to $ ...

Introduction

Change is a perpetual in today’s fast paced world. What is modern today becomes obsolete tomorrow. New technologies mean a change in the way on thinks, learns and gets his information or uses it. Any organization may feel the challenges brought about by those new technologies and why they need to implement them within their culture. Any change within or outside an institution is sure to incite mixed reception and perception among its members and clients. The essay applies a change theory to an organizational-based on Kotter’s change model and plans a change process. The change process ...

The Nurse’s Role during an Infectious or Communicable Disease Outbreak

Nurses have a crucial role in the management of all forms of diseases in a hospital setting. However, there are instances when they are called upon to the field to apply their expertise in managing the spread of the diseases at the community level through clinical interventions such as vaccinations. Nurses are very important human resource personnel in the health sector, and thus there is the need to recognize their efforts in making the world a better place. The paper shall discus the study a pattern of a communicable disease and the role of nurses in managing its outbreak ...

A. Community health nursing is a concept that seeks to identify and analyze all vital data in relation to a community or a group of people to assist in the development of appropriate interventions that can improve the health status of the community or group. It is a concept that recognizes the importance of the social-health determinants and their influence on the quality of health and be quality of life depicted by the community (Stanhope, Lancaster & Stanhope, 2014). If applied, the community health nurse has to focus on the needs of the community across the economic, social, cultural and ...

Proposed Solution

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the prevalence of obesity among children has tripled from 6.5% in 1980 to 18.6% as of 2008. This is contrary to the prevalence of adults which has doubled. An effective solution for the overall problem of obesity should therefore focus more on children. Consequently, the proposed solution focuses more on school-going children given that a huge proportion of the target population (children) attends school, which is an important point of the socialization process for children. The solution involves inculcating practices and policies in schools that promote healthy habits with ...

Project Plan

The Ace Star Model of Knowledge Transformation will be used to help guide the planned change process. The ACE Star Model will describe the project and help recognize the process of knowledge discovery and transformation (Stevens, 2012). This model focuses on knowledge transformation for organizational or individual use, but this DNP project will base on organizational change. The ACE Star Model addresses factors that influence adoption of innovation and composed of five major stages. The first step in the ACE Star Model is discovery – search for knowledge. The second step is evidence summary - conduction a rigorous systematic review ...

It is worth noting that spirituality is inextricably related to physical and emotional health. When it comes to disease prevention and health promotion, the spiritual direction is extremely effective, since health care professionals deal with sickness and suffering on a daily basis. Religious involvement along with spiritual experiences tend to provide relaxation, thereby reducing physical and mental exhaustion. Spirituality entails certain moral guidance, thus spiritual practice seems to be pertinent in terms of preventing diseases and promoting health. People are likely to find comfort from religious and spiritual beliefs, and as the result become happier and less susceptible to ...

Interview with Healthcare Administrator

Interview with Healthcare Administrator

The health promotion initiatives are focused to incorporate the set of actions that enhance the health quality and wellbeing of the individuals in society. The objective of health promotion initiatives is to inform the individuals about the various aspects of their daily routines and how can they enhance their routine activities to remain healthy. It also ensures all the things are well-addressed that can influence the health and wellbeing of the individuals. In this manner, these initiatives play a prominent role in the prevention of chronic diseases caused by the prevalence of unhealthy activities (Nader ...

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 ...

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Almost all around the world, different organizations put their best effort to convince smokers to quit in order to avoid the negative effects of tobacco. The same holds true in the country of Thailand. In the year 2012, the Thai Health Promotion Foundation created a short video advertisement to convince smokers to quit. The foundation is a local agency that aims to promote health and well-being of individuals and the society as a whole. Because smoking causes serious health damage as well as environmental impact, it is not surprising that the Thai Health Promotion Foundation specifically targets ...

Nursing

Introduction The process involved in health promotion is to enable an effective dissemination of information about certain health problems in order for the people to improve their state of health or increase control over a certain health issue. Identifying the cause of health problem begins with probing, which involves determining the causation of the issue at hand. Difficulty in breathing is an example of a health issue that translates to several health conditions that people are not aware about. The discussion encompasses a short discussion about difficulty in breathing followed by articulation of the data collection process that entails ...

Part 1

Health Promotion Proposal: Elementary School Age Obesity The goal of this project is to establish the major factors contributing to the increasing numbers of school-aged children been diagnosed with childhood obesity and its co-morbidities and recommend meaningful ways to stave off this alarming health problem in the present and future generations.

Interventions to Address the Goal

The role of the healthcare sector is to ensure the quality of health and wellbeing of every person in the society (Rice et al., 2013). Increasing numbers of obese children in the U.S. raise a health risk that requires quick intervention from health care stakeholders such as the ...

Introduction

An important indicator of the level of development of nations around the world is that of the existing policies towards healthcare, health promotion, wellness and prevention of outbreak of diseases . The preparedness of the government as well as historical records of success or failure to contain diseases and healthcare conditions help in providing an outlook on the overall healthcare condition in a nation . Sometimes it does happen that a major disease outbreak transforms into a national emergency which seeks to test present the true picture, especially when the healthcare policies and strategies are analyzed against that of a developed ...

As afore-mentioned, knowledge deficit is a major problem facing the management of pediatric asthma. Asthma management cannot be optimal devoid of a proper understanding of various self-efficacy and asthma monitoring skills. This explains why an asthma education program for this patient population is quite promising in terms of addressing the problem. Imparting this new knowledge (knowledge on asthma management and self-efficacy) can be viewed under the lens of the Diffusion of Innovations Theory by Everett Rogers. This theory is pretty relevant and in line with this EBP project since it essentially seeks to transmit new ideas or new knowledge ( ...

The U.S health care system has undergone changes over the years, with advancements in technology and education, promising more changes to occur in the future. Nurses and nursing practice are at the center of these changes. During this exercise, the views of three nurses; Simon Troy, Karen Smith, and Hannah Wesley were taken into consideration when analyzing the changes in both healthcare and nursing practice. The nurses were in agreement that the future for nurses in the U.S was characterized by both opportunities and challenges. The American health care system is rapidly embracing the concept of continuity of care, ...

Headache is a common complaint that afflicts most of the adult population at some point in their lives (Hainer & Matheson, 2013). Headaches are by and large a subjective phenomenon with few objectively measurable factors (McMurtray & Saito, 2014). Most headaches will be the benign, but a small percentage will indicate an underlying neurologic or systemic pathology (Hainer & Matheson, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to investigate the chief complaint, “I have headaches or a headache.” The paper will discuss the objective and subjective data that needs to be collected, headache triggers and drug treatments, and the health promotion strategies ...

Study question/ objective

Gonorrhea is a contagious disease that is often transmitted from one individual to the other one through sexual contact. It is one of the commonest sexually transmitted infections that affect young individuals of between ages 15 years to 24 years since the majority of them do not understand how well to take care of themselves (Kidd & Workowski, 2015). As such, it is vital that a program be developed with the intentions of ensuring that this portion of the populace can receive the utmost care which will satisfactorily address this problem. The purpose of this program, therefore, will be to ...

Web-based interventions are considered to be the advancement made in the nursing practice due to the dynamic changes when it comes to technology and computer systems. In addition, the higher priority for the funding of the technological aspects in the field of nursing led to the discovery and development of various interventions that utilizes computers and technology (Im & Chang, 2013; Chee, Lee, Chee, & Im, 2014). Web-based interventions refer to a self-guided intervention which was implemented and executed with the use of an online programs which can be operated using computers and internets. These programs can be accessed and used ...

Proposed solution

The development of suitable asthma education programs that involve self-efficacy, self-management as well as self-monitoring behaviors and other health promotion strategies for asthma tailored to the pediatric population is the proposed solution or intervention that could be used in addressing the issue of childhood asthma. More importantly, this intervention could help in optimal asthma management as well as foster the involvement of children in daily activities like school, sports as well as play and reduce exacerbation of the disease among pediatric patients. As such, the proposed solution is in agreement with the available evidence on the topic whereby various ...

Introduction

Rational and other forms of discrimination, including ethnic discrimination have been the bane of major political discourse in the history of the United States. The steps that have been gained over the last several years have yielded tremendous success in the recognition of most of the basic rights of the minorities who according to the U.S. Census Bureau (2008) form at least forty percent of the population in the United. However, despite the successes of the human rights activists in ensuring that every citizen is accorded equal rights, the disparities that are still experienced in the provision of health ...

Health promotion Goal

The goal of the project is to establish major factors contributing to increasing numbers of obese school-going children and recommend effective plans to prevent the health problem in the future.

Interventions to address the goal

The role of the healthcare sector is to ensure the quality of health and wellbeing of every person in the society. The increasing number of obese children in the United States raises a health risk that requires quick intervention from health care stakeholders. Weight-related conditions traditionally associated with adults are currently more common among the young generation, especially school-aged children compared to the past. Addressing the project goal demands ...

Defining and describing the issue

The school-aged children experience many health challenges caused by poor diet. Children and young adults spend most of their time in school, and many have meals made in schools. The nutrition quality of these meals has a lot of impact on the health outcome of the child; hence, need to create a standard nutrition guideline that determines the type of food, the type of ingredients, and amount served to children during lunches. Many governments have implemented policies and legislations on school meals to prevent children from consuming unhealthy and unbalanced diets. The following paper uses the Local School Wellness ...

Introduction

The work of a healthcare professional is a complex and challenging one. There are just so many things that one has to consider in order to provide the highest quality healthcare. Aside from competence when it comes to medical and allied health skills, healthcare professionals also have to make sure that the sociocultural aspects of healthcare provision are not taken for granted. In this paper, the author discusses the integral relationship between cultural competency and cultural safety, emphasizing its role in improving the outcomes on various levels as a health promotion officer.

Description of the Relevance and the Relationship between Culture, Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Cultural Competence

Culture is an important part of healthcare ...

CDC (2012) defines social media as online communication tools that facilitate exchange of information, interaction, engagement, and sharing of ideas and other content over networks. In the recent past, the use of social has gained immense popularity, and the healthcare industry has not been left behind. Disease prevention through health promotion depends heavily on shared information, as the information empowers the public on issues affecting their health. Information access has been revolutionalized by social media, and as Heldman, Schindelar & Weaver (2013) posits, it is imperative to take the information to the people. 67% of internet users are active users ...

Affiliated Institution

Advanced Dental Health Practitioner (ADHP) The ADHA (American Dental Hygienist’ Association) developed the transformative model to improve the provision of dental care to the increasing dental health services demand. The ADHA developed the ADHP model to act as the professional nurse equivalent in the dental health field. The ADHP are meant to bridge the gap between the increasing demand and the availability of services from dentists. This transformation has brought about the mid-level dental care practitioners and therapists. Different states have endorsed the model with Minnesota having transformed its version of the ADHP into the American Dental Health Therapist. ...

Adolescent pregnancy is one family planning issue that is being addressed by initiatives under the Healthy People 2020. Adolescent or teen pregnancy is defined as pregnancy in females aged 19 years or younger (UMMC, 2011). Baseline figures show that in 2005, there were 40.2 pregnancies for every 1,000 girls between 15 and 17 years old and 116.2 pregnancies for every 1,000 girls between 18 and 19 years old (ODPHP, 2016). This issue needs to be addressed because of the physical, social, and economic consequences to young girls, their children, their families, and society. Teens have a higher ...

Background of the problem

Childhood asthma is among the major widespread chronic illnesses affecting the pediatric population. According to CDC, about 6.3 million children in the United States have asthma (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2016). Essentially, childhood asthma is mainly characterized by the inflammation of the lungs as well as the airways due to exposure of children to certain triggers that include respiratory infections and inhaling of airborne pollen. Pediatric asthma is associated with various bothersome symptoms that usually interfere with engagement of children in the daily activities such as sports, school and play. In addition, asthma contributes to incidences of ...