1000 Search Results for Prevention Programs
Ecstasy Use by Adolescents in Miami-Dade County, FL
Ecstasy, also known as MDMA, Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, has become popular as a club drug and at techno dance events, such as raves, trance scenes and private parties. Many who attend raves and Continue Reading...
Furthermore, abstinence-only programs have not been shown to have an appreciable impact on teen pregnancy rates (Hunt). In fact, more and earlier safe-sex education appears to help reduce the number of teen pregnancies (Hunt). However, the most effe Continue Reading...
Originality, Applicability, and Relevance; Interdisciplinarity; Literature Review;)
It is the typically the norm for many offender programs follow the long-standing conventions that have been developed in the last few generations. However, the trad Continue Reading...
Interventional Project
Proposal for Early Intervention Project
In the recent past, the issue of family violence against children in the aboriginal communities has attracted significant attention of different stakeholders involved in the protection Continue Reading...
Patient Falls
Preventing Patient Falls
The primary goal of every hospital and care facility is the health and safety of their patients. While some problems, such as illness cannot be avoided, compounding illness with injuries can and should be avoi Continue Reading...
Prevention / Intervention
Screening tools can be a cost effective means of identifying patients who are at risk for developing pressure ulcers. These tools identify specific areas that need to be addressed and watched closely. After areas of risk Continue Reading...
Obesity
A website for Current Nursing touts a health promotion model as espoused by Nola J. Pender, a former professor of nursing at the University of Michigan. The model's focus is on three areas: 1) individual characteristics and experiences, 2) b Continue Reading...
New York City
New York City has typically been forced to take advantage of any innovative or highly publicized program in order to combat its high rate of both property crime and violent crime. One example of this is NYC 73rd Precinct's Clergy-Pol Continue Reading...
"It was tested on almost 600 kids in a desegregated Indianapolis middle school where there are a lot of aggressive kids," Bosworth says. "Those who used the computer were more aware of their own coping strategies and violence presentation. They also Continue Reading...
Although the severities of congestive signs may be similar, medical evaluation should be instructed to determine whether there is accompanying proof of cardiovascular disease. Physical proof of cardiovascular disease contains the narrow pulse pressu Continue Reading...
Child Abuse and Neglect Analysis
The placement agency that I am personally affiliated with is Operation Safehouse which is a transitional living facility for at risk homeless youth ages eighteen to twenty one. There are two primary locations. One is Continue Reading...
Health Assessment of Environmental Processes
Assessment of environmental processes includes agents and factors that may cause injury, illness, or death. Choose one of the following age groups: toddler, preschool, and school-age child. List some of t Continue Reading...
Michael Lauren who is struggling with drug problem. Michele Lauren is twenty-one-year-old girl, single and a resident of New York City. Michele lives with her parents and is addicted to marijuana. She was arrested on various circumstances, each time Continue Reading...
Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Nursing Home Patients
With growing numbers of the American population joining the elderly ranks, there has been a corresponding increase in the number of residents of long-term care facilities including approximately 16 Continue Reading...
In a study of the prevalence of elder abuse in the United States, financial difficulties on the part of the abuser did appear to be an important risk factor (Krug, 2002, pp. 130-131).
Relationship factors - in the early theoretical models, the leve Continue Reading...
Neighborhood Watches have been criticized for not attempting to integrate members of the community who are at a high risk of committing crimes, like juveniles, by incorporating after-school programs for at risk youths into the watch, but it could be Continue Reading...
Pollution and Prevention
In a multi-pronged approach, communities can institute public education pollution prevention programs that include publicly maintained depositories for collecting hazardous waste. Public education is crucial to reducing nonp Continue Reading...
Asthma and ER utilization
Asthma
Asthma is a particularly debilitating condition. Asthma is characterized by a tightening in the chest with difficulty in breathing and wheezing. This difficulty in breathing can result, at best, in a decrease in qua Continue Reading...
Social Work
Social Policies in Community Agencies
Hall (2013) opines that social workers practicing from a community organizing or development perspective try to tackle systemic problems that lead to negative social issues. Social policy attempts to Continue Reading...
Next is that the research report provides all the details necessary to effectively assess the quality of the research method, including such revealing information as the sample size and composition, what control group or groups were used, the reliab Continue Reading...
Workplace Demands Influences Patient Safety
PICOT Question
PICOT Question: How can the implementation of accurate safety standards reduce errors that hamper patients' safety in healthcare facilities in the short and long run?
P -- Patients in hea Continue Reading...
Blood Pressure
The three factors of cultural empowerment according to the Pen-3 model can and should be taken into account when working with the target population. Each of the three factors of cultural empowerment: positive, existential/exotic, and Continue Reading...
Human Services
The field of human services is a burgeoning field that is fairly broad in definition. It requires an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge, one that focuses on prevention as well as solving human problems, and a commitment to impro Continue Reading...
Finally, domestic violence advocates argue against family counseling because the idea of family counseling may bolster a batterer's argument that his or her victim somehow contributed to or helped cause the violence. From a criminal justice point-of Continue Reading...
I am motivated to continue with my volunteering experience because of a caller I had one night when I had hotline duty.
The caller had been raped several years before and was a repeat caller, who just needed to talk when the nightmares came. In the Continue Reading...
7-11. Increase the proportion of local health departments that have established culturally appropriate and linguistically competent community health promotion and disease prevention programs and third: 7-2. Increase the proportion of middle, junior Continue Reading...
Minimizing Poverty Is a Government Initiative
The Progressive Era
Poverty reduction has remained a central debate in periodical democratic societies. Schemes have been established to enable citizens to be economically viable either at paid-employme Continue Reading...
A hazard is anything within food, which may cause harm to customers. This may include bacteria, viruses or foreign bodies, which might make a person ill or cause physical injury such as a broken tooth or cut lip. In addition to these, other food haz Continue Reading...
Domestic Violence
It has long been recognized that clients must have the mindset and goals set forth for themselves if they are to succeed in a therapeutic changing process. Whether the goal is to change behavioral or emotional problems, the client Continue Reading...
Alcohol Prohibition from 1920 to 1933 did not work. There are many parallels from this failed effort and the current laws prohibiting drugs in the United States. Alcohol prohibition was undertaken to reduce crime and corruption, solve social problems Continue Reading...
Gender and Crime
How would each of the three critical feminist perspectives -- Radical, Marxist, and Socialist -- explain this phenomenon? Do different life experiences by men and women impact the overrepresentation of men in the criminal justice sy Continue Reading...
Social Cost of Abstinence-Only Sex Education
Comprehensive Sex Education
The High Social Cost of Abstinence-Only Sex Education in the United States
The American Abstinence-Only Movement
In the United States there has been a social and legislative Continue Reading...
Its use on those with acute PAH should be performed with caution. The complication rate was observed at 2%
in patients with acute PAH. The use of the procedure was deemed relatively safe for chronic pulmonary arterial hypertension. Severely ill pat Continue Reading...
It is no longer acceptable to just pretend that there isn't a problem and hope that it all goes away (Cooper, Golden, & Kent-Ferraro, 2002, 164).
The problem of sexual harassment in the workplace is not a new problem and will continue to be a p Continue Reading...
.....ending terrorism in Africa, the methods employed should be oriented towards measuring outputs. The outputs that are expected with this particular study are the ending of terrorism in Africa. The inputs are the various strategies and programs tha Continue Reading...
Drawing information from around the globe the report suggests a number of social welfare organizations and outreach programs in order to prevent younger children from beginning to abuse either drugs or alcohol and assisting those members of the popu Continue Reading...
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" (1999) Moran states that it has been demonstrated in many studies that a "familial aggregation f risk factors for obesity exist and the family "provides the child's major social learning environment." (1999)
Surgical and Pharmacological Treatment
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Fall Reduction Project: An Evaluation of the Implementation Process
Chapter 3: Implementation
In Brief
Blank hospital had a significant increase in falls in the inpatient acute care setting. For this reason, the need for an immutable and comprehensiv Continue Reading...
What is significant about youth court is that the attorneys, jurors and even the judges are themselves adolescents and many times former defendants (Butts, Hoffman & Buck, 1999). The foundational premise or ideology behind youth courts is that t Continue Reading...