Essays on Ill Health

(the author’s name) (the institutional affiliation) Although the countries worldwide have been dealing with poverty issues for several decades this problem is still urgent. Even the international commitment to the problem has not lead to substantial progress in reducing poverty levels. As regards the United States, the recent statistics in poverty rate reveals 14.8% of the poor population amounting to 46.7 million (Bray & Schommer-Aikins, 2016, p. 579). Poverty is associated with individuals’ inability to sustain basic amenities which include decent access to adequate resources: food, clean water, housing, clothing, health services, and safety. Such deficiencies restrict human freedom ...

Fantasy Organization

Workplace safety is paramount in every organization, and OSHA requires that there should be OSH standards that have to be complied to ensure that the work environment is safe for the employees. Companies lose millions of dollars every year due to work-related injuries and penalties due to lack of compliance with this standard (Safety and Health Add Value, 2016). The US Department of Labor formulates safety policies, requires that every company comply with those regulations. Employee safety is often a priority for every company, and it is the role of the management to ensure that attaining the safety goals ...

The sick role of health and disease

The sick role concept as explained by Talcott Parsons (1951) illustrates the need to meet the expectations of the sick. This includes the norms, procedure of treatment and the care required. Ideally, being sick refers to the patterns that are necessary as opposed to being a condition. The American sociologist in his concept laid emphasis on the entering “sanctioned deviance”. Deviance illustrates the failure to follow the set norms (Varul n.d, 72). Notably, the functional perspective in sociological views that a sick individual is not productive hence needs attention to straightening the disturbed sociological functioning. Empirically, health refers to ...

Childhood Obesity

UNIVERITY Historically, overweight children were a symbol of wealth, and being well taken care of by their family(Gilman, 2008; A.C. Saguy, 2012). Currently, this does not seem to be the case, quite frankly, it is just the opposite. News media and medical research place blame on parents for jeopardizing their children's health by not monitoring their weight(Barry, Brescoll, & Gollust, 2013; Barry, Jarlenski, Grob, Schlesinger, & Gollust, 2011; N. C. Boero, 2010; Abigail C Saguy & Gruys, 2010). The purpose of this paper is to understanding society's response to childhood obesity through the lens of Agenda-Setting theory. This theory is ...

Action for health in the Sonagachi red-light area of Kolkata

The sex workers of the Sonagachi red-light area of Kolkata were a vulnerable and exploited group at the bottom rung of the societal ladder: they had no rights, little education, few opportunities and lived a life full of violence and with the very real risk of ill health. As well as the risk of ill health to themselves, there were also wider public health concerns – most notably of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV transmission. In this essay we shall look at how the sex workers were able to achieve a previously unheralded change and improvement in their lives ...

Alienation in the Workplace

- Why and to what extend should organizations be concerned with alienation in the workplace?

The workplace is where a lot of people, presumably, from different departments in an organization especially if we are talking about the workplace of a large corporation, collaborate to work on areas they are responsible for. Teamwork is an essential part of a highly productive workplace and workplace alienation according to Marx’s Alienation of Labor Theory, is one of the major hindrances to employee and corporate productivity .

- What is meant by the expression “alienation at work”; what are its main causes among employees and ...

According to the recent research, consumption of junk food is one of the significant reasons for ill health. Junk food has become a common place and gained an air of unavoidance. Health education plays an important role in preventing unhealthy eating habits and improving the lifestyle of individuals. The intake of junk food is unhealthy for individuals because processing of food at extremely high temperatures destroys all the nutrients, thereby leaving no goodness in the food . The preservatives, additives and other chemicals added to the food further take away the nutrients from the food. A steady display of junk food ...

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According to Taft, Mayer and Kuniholm, a good painting has the potential to make one inspired, informed, or happy by what one sees (2). However, while making a painting analysis it is important to explore ‘what the particular painter was trying to achieve’ (“Famous paintings..”). A full body is beautiful too is the artistic work I chose for the assignment. This is an excellent painting done by Noopur Goel. I chose this image for its thematic relevance and uniqueness. Although it has certain characteristics of modern art, it is not very complex for one to understand the matter ...

Enlightenment connotes to the transitional process that involve positive significant development. The cited enlightenment has been in existence from the 17th century to the contemporary times. However, the cited enlightenment for instance industrial revolution has elicited myriad debate on its effectiveness coupled with the success. Categorically, myriad challenges have been identified in the enlightenment process. The mentioned challenges such as political, economic and social have instigated untold suffering to the myriad populace. The paper endeavors to explicitly extrapolate on industrial revolution as the failure of enlightenment. Agreeably, enlightenment has significantly changed the status of specific nations. For instance, ...

The Australian health system entails several layers of responsibility, and mainly the funds are supplied by government authorities, individuals, health suppliers and private health insurance firms. From the Australian Health Care System, it is clear that the "Primary Care" is mainly offered locally by general practitioners (GPs) that are mainly self-employed. Furthermore, it is important to know that GPs additionally work as ‘gatekeepers, referring individuals to professional healthcare services were required. The second system is known as "Acute Care" that is basically offered by the Public or private hospitals. Secondly, the Public treatment option from the hospital is basically ...

Spirituality has been embraced in disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, literature and health care. However, nursing profession has historically neglected the dimension of spirituality regardless of its significance in the healing process. Currently, medical institutions offer courses in spirituality. In addition, many medical centers have incorporated holistic health care and spirituality into their programs. In essence, trends towards embracing spirituality in nursing care include situations where patients demand that their spiritual requirements be addressed. Interestingly, patients desire that their mental, emotional or physical should be accompanied with spiritual concerns. Spiritual care identifies and considers the needs of people ...

The concept of equality comes in the picture when the debate about human worth and human rights is initiated. Equality champions often come up with mottos that claim that all human beings are equal and therefore they deserve equal treatment. On the other hand, counters of equality claim the equality is the enemy of incentive and creativity. Given the two notions, we wonder what is meant by equality. Equality is a term that indicates a quantitative relationship. It indicates connection between a group of different persons with similar qualities in at least one aspect and corresponds itself in all its features. The ...

Promotion of health condition in modern society is a multidisciplinary endeavour that ranges from surveillance of diseases and health in a specific population to the facilitation of health information and advice. The improvement of health status in the 21st century also involves actions at all levels including community level although to national and international levels. Health promotion also takes place in various places including streets, nightclubs, youth centres, hospitals, workplace, and schools. However, despite the existence of a collective initiative to address health complications in modern complicated and integrated society, cultural context on health and illness has been a major concern among modern ...

(City, State) In Australia, various factors have been identified as determinants of health status in any given population. These factors include class, gender, ethnicity or whether one is indigenous or non-indigenous. Understanding the effect of these determinants on health and their interaction poses a great challenge. Gender and ethnicity are some of the complex traits and are very useful since they include social dimension that are necessary in the understanding their impact on health. This paper is aimed at showing how class, gender, indigeneity or ethnicity impact on the health status of people living in Australia. In terms ...

Introduction

Food is at the center of our lives; it is the part of our culture, and how we socialize, discipline, and reward our children. However, with childhood obesity on the rise, food can be also recognized as a major problem for some children. With the excessive caloric intake and sedentary lifestyle, weight gain in our children is inevitable. Determining the cause of childhood obesity is essential, so that a preventative plan can be implemented, with an objective to decrease the incidence of childhood obesity; and help children lead a normal healthy life ahead, in the future. Many obesity researchers also believe that ...

Introduction

Nurses are responsible for the delivery of safe, effective, efficient, timely and patient centered health care services. The first step in delivering health care services is identifying the actual health problems a patient has and potential health care complication the patient will likely have based on the patients health history and the current conditions. In this report, nursing problems are stated for the case of a geriatric patient recovering from a TURP operation. Possible interventions to arrest the identified problems and evaluation of their effectiveness in keeping with the clinical reasoning model are evaluated. TURP is commonly used to benign prostatic ...

Introduction

Minority homelessness in London is an article by Kusminder Chahal that looks at the critical issue of homelessness in London, the vulnerable groups and the health risks they are exposed to. The article provides comprehensive information on the topic of study citing some of the research findings that were found. However, as the author notes from the research findings, they were biased and hence not providing true information on the state of homelessness in London. Most of the research techniques used could not allow the collection of correct information as it was more based on what was physical rather ...

Abstract

The below mentioned paper is a reaction paper on Poverty and Health. Both of them are correlated but through this paper we shall go through and discuss whether poverty leads to ill health or poor health leads to poverty. Several research results and findings have been mentioned to support the fact.

Introduction

Poor health been considered as a result of poverty for long. It has been widely acknowledged that areas with higher figures of ill-health and malnutrition are prone to widespread poverty. Improper and insufficient diet intake among children leads to infection and malnutrition respectively and thus leading to poor health of ...

Across the globe, approximately 1.7 people live in destitution today (Vetterlein 514). Poverty can be relative or absolute depending on the extent of the level of lacking. Many people living in absolute poverty cannot access basic facilities such as food, healthcare, shelter, clothing, and education. Apart from absolute poverty, other people live in relative poverty, whereby they cannot afford socially acceptable secondary items or income like the others in the same region. For a long time, communities and societies accepted poverty as a way of life, believing that nature could never be sufficient enough to offer the whole population a better living. ...

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This paper summarizes the story of the Motley Crew as narrated in the book “the dirt confession of the world’s most notorious rock band’’. The essay chronicles their lifestyles from formation, rise to power, moral decadency, and distinct highs and lows among other aspects. It concentrates on most remarkable events of the group as demonstrated in the autobiography. The work goes further to depict frightening scenarios of the Crew events taking place on and out of stage.

Introduction

The Motley crew depicts a group of hardcore Rock Music heroes who begun life at the very center of poverty. The most ...

Introduction

Sociology is about unraveling certain fundamental laws pertaining to the governing of the organization of social relationships and societal phenomena with a view of understanding problems that are being experienced by society. In the recent past, there has been a major focus on sociology and its relatedness to health and medical sciences. So as to interpret social reality it is important to have an image of the various interrelationships that define human interaction. Sociological research is important in the observation and analysis of social phenomena; it entails critical examination, empirical and rational collection and analysis of various aspects to arrive at a ...

Psychology:

Aging and adulthood are two aspects of our life that we cannot avoid. As human beings we undergo physiological and psychological changes in our body and mind throughout our life circle. This change is often multidimensional and has been scientifically known to either progress or decline depending on many social as well as psychosomatic factors. Stuart Hamilton (2006) differentiates aging as influenced by immediate as well as factors that can be traced back to our childhood. From a psychological point of view there is evidence to the fact that the inevitable aging process can be made subsequently easier by the ...