Essays on Stanhope

Nutritional stress is one of the basic causes of a variety of diseases. Food processing industries across the world convert whole grains, vegetables, meat, and dairy products into convenient forms for the consumption of the end users. For instance, most of the processed foods individuals consume nowadays are loaded with sugar and other chemicals. Sugar does not contain any essential nutrients and only provides the body excess calories and energy. Studies have repeatedly proven the harmful effects of sugar to the human body as it affects the normal metabolism (Stanhope, Schwarz & Havel, 2013). Processed foods cause obesity which in ...

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 ...

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This project serves to focus on the country of Saudi Arabia and how the nation, handles school preparedness when it comes to disasters. Saudi Arabia is a developing country. The researcher argues that more need to be done in making sure children are protected in a developing society when a disaster happens. Some of the disasters explored in the discussion include fires, earthquakes, hurricanes and terrorist attacks. The researcher believes that while there is potential to rectify this issue, more future research needs to be done. In the exploration of the topic, the author found that there were vulnerabilities ...

Introduction

Healthcare is a broad domain that requires proper planning and resource mobilization to guarantee the successful realization of various objectives that characterize its dispensation in the contemporary world. In most cases, professionals in the healthcare sector are involved in initiatives that improve services to the communities that they serve. The agency under consideration works to alleviate the states of individuals affected by the HIV-AIDS scourge in Canada (CDC, 2010).

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The agency is largely concerned with the provision of solutions for HIV-AIDS and all opportunistic diseases associated with the condition. Besides HIV-AIDS, the agency targets infections such as viral hepatitis, ...

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Abstract Researchers have long been exploring the various factors that affect the health condition of individuals and/or groups. They have reported the key factors that seemingly determine health outcomes for vulnerable populations, namely, socioeconomic status (e.g. income, education, and occupation), cultural practices, and social services (e.g. housing, medical care). These so-called social determinants of health largely contribute to health disparities. Health policy has also been reported to significantly influence the health condition of vulnerable population. For instance, in the U.S., health policy is more focused on 'cure' than 'prevention', which, in consequence, channels bulk of the resources toward clinical ...

The condition is described as the embryonic forebrain and the faces of human babies. The etiology is heterogeneous genetically and therefore is passed from parents to offsprings. It may also have some environmental inclination (Mallick et al, 2014, para 1). HPE is subdivided into four classes ranging from the least to the most severe kind (Nanni, Schelper & Muenke, 2010, para 2). The brain is bifurcated into two hemispheres. Only 3% of the fetuses develop to delivery. Two-thirds of the affected develop alobar HPE. Which is the most severe of them. The prevalence of the condition has been quoted as ...