999 Search Results for Promoting Physical Activity in the Community
Childhood obesity has become one of the most significant public health challenges of the 21st century. This epidemic is not confined to any single region or nation but is a crisis affecting children across the globe. The World Health Organization (WH Continue Reading...
Childhood Obesity Focused on 6 to 11-Year-Olds in Tyler, Texas
Obesity is associated with a condition of calorific imbalance in which the ratio of consumption of calories consumed and the ones expended is skewed such that the amount of the ones spe Continue Reading...
Barriers to provision of healthcare in rural areas include "provider shortages and infrastructure issues." (Hearne, et al. 2004)
Obesity related costs are inclusive of both direct and indirect costs which include 'medical costs and lost productivit Continue Reading...
Advocacy Through LegislationIdentify a problem or concern in your state, community, or organization that has the capacity to be advocated through legislation. Research the issue and complete the sections below. For each topic that requires the listin Continue Reading...
HHS Prevention strategies that is of interest to you and relevant to advance practice nursing
I CHOSE DIABETES PREVENTION
Diabetes disease management in the setting of a clinic is a multicomponent, proactive and organized approach in order to deli Continue Reading...
The biopsychosocial perspective is a comprehensive approach to understanding human health and illness. This model posits that biological, psychological, and social factors all play a significant role in human functioning in the context of disease or Continue Reading...
Obesity and Its Consequences
Obesity and its Prevalence Trends
Final Research Paper: Obesity and Health Problems
Obesity has significantly become an issue in the current century, which requires great intervention of the entire society. The researc Continue Reading...
Health Policy to Prevent and Manage Diabetes
Health Issue and affected Population
In the United States and other part of the world, the type 2 diabetes have become a major health concern for policy makers and health planners. Although, there are th Continue Reading...
obesity epidemic is a relatively recent social problem in America. As Ambinder notes in a useful summary article for the Atlantic Monthly, rates of obesity in America were stable from 1960 to 1980, "but then from 1980 to 2000 they doubled" (Ambinder Continue Reading...
Epidemiology Paper Part Three: Implementation and Evaluation - Asian Americans with type 2 diabetes
1. Identify a public health theory you will use to support the implementation of your prevention and health promotion activities. Provide evidence tha Continue Reading...
The study found that overweight children or those likely to be overweight tended to incur more medical expenses than non-overweight children (Johnson 2006). Socio-economic and demographic differences between them indicated the differences in expens Continue Reading...
products or service of your chosen organization, and two (2) key factors in the organization's external environment that can affect its success. Provide explanation to support the rationale.
De Beers is the world's famous diamond company, establish Continue Reading...
Roy Adaptation Theory
Callista Roy: Adaptation Theory
Not every idea is perfect and neither is any person, so the propagation of theoretical stances proliferate. In the field of nursing it makes sense that there would be theories which were designe Continue Reading...
Christodolous et al. (2006) find that "children who reported less than 30 minutes of daily participation in physical activity demonstrated lower prevalence rates for overweight and obesity as well as superior fitness performance. The detrimental eff Continue Reading...
Australian Suburbia
A suburb is a residential place existing as either part of the city outside the central business district or a residential community within a distance from the city. Suburbs in Australia have a degree of autonomy in administratio Continue Reading...
Transition From Disease Prevention to Health Promotion
Health Promotion
Health issues have been addressed in the past from the perspective of disease prevention rather than focusing on health promotion. Health promotion deals with a wide array of i Continue Reading...
Obesity Prevention
Marketing Plan
Obesity Prevention Nonprofit Organizational Marketing Plan
The primary purpose of this report is to help investors understand the need for a program which will help reduce obesity throughout the UK and then less d Continue Reading...
Health Behavior Model:
I would find that this examination would be best served by the values
of the health belief model. This is an appropriate way to gain a better
understanding of what causes people to make certain health behavior
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2009). The interventions used in this research study proved to be ineffective, however, and it has been suggested that more culturally relevant study leading to the development of more highly-culturally-specific practices is needed in this regard (P Continue Reading...
Script and ReflectionScriptNP: Good morning, Mrs. Rodriguez. I\\\'m Nurse Practitioner Davis. How are you today?Mrs. Rodriguez: Good morning, Nurse Practitioner Davis. I\\\'m doing well, thank you.NP: I\\\'m glad to hear that. Today, we\\\'ll be disc Continue Reading...
Clinical Trial of Tailored Activity and Eating Newsletter With Older Rural Women
Does the report describe an explicit theoretical or conceptual framework for the study? If not, does the absence of a framework detract from the usefulness or significa Continue Reading...
Randolph County
Community Vitality
The area that consists of Randolph County, NC is quite vital for this region of the country. According to the United States Census, the 2012 population estimate is 142,466 people for this region. The population is Continue Reading...
Future community corrections should also address economic, social, and cultural development of the society. This involves executing correction programs such as work releases. Work release programs would enable inmates to focus on transition and hea Continue Reading...
This researcher rejects the existence of online communities because computer mediated group discussions cannot possibly meet this definition. Weinreich's view is that anyone with even a basic knowledge of sociology understands that information excha Continue Reading...
Historians are interested in a multitude of forces of influences that have led to the creation of the present status-quo and the history professors are focused on presenting those particular forces in a way that is understanding and relevant to the Continue Reading...
Community Advocacy Project-Health Policies
Course Project: Community Advocacy Project-Health Policies
Child obesity refers to a medical condition that mainly affects teenagers and children. This happens when their bodies store excessive body fat. A Continue Reading...
Bioecological Theory and the Family and Community Resource Conceptual Framework)
The Case History
"Kerry" has twin girls who are now 4 years old. She had been living with her defacto "Dean" for the past 6 years. She is a qualified beautician and h Continue Reading...
According to Rohe and his colleagues, though, "Over time, however, there has been a tendency for departments to expand their programs to involve a larger number of officers and to cover wider geographic areas. Besides these special units, a number o Continue Reading...
Registered nurses are both qualified, educated, and certified to provide a high quality of various care services that an individual may need in a home setting or elsewhere. Hence, providing these practitioners with the power to certify and provide h Continue Reading...
Adults, especially seniors need a place where they can learn new things and express themselves. Sometimes seniors go to a senior community arts program where they learn to paint and create things for themselves and for their loved ones. Art theory in Continue Reading...
Sunrise Foster Senior Community
The Older American Act (OAA) was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on August 14, 1965. The purpose of the law was to provide for the needs of an increasing number of older persons in the United States. The s Continue Reading...
Alzheimer Healthy Community
PLANNED, PERSONALIZED CARE
Alzheimer's Healthy Community
Dog-Assisted Therapy for Older People with Dementia
A review of nine studies on the subject produced loose conclusions on the value of this type of therapy (Perk Continue Reading...
Geagua County, OH
Planning -- The most effective strategy within a community for any public health issue is two-fold: education and focus. To accomplish this at the community level, there needs to be a broad level of focus and support from all level Continue Reading...
food increasingly popular a leisure activity. Background Information: Food people solely 'food fuel'. Food,, aspects a leisure activity: shopping [ farmer's markets], eating, cooking, reading, TV viewing, blogging .
Food as a Leisure Activity
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First, an individual must have a secure, local identity, and only then he or she can move out into the wider community and make a contribution. This is the importance of local affiliation -- it gives am emotional security to individuals, and enables Continue Reading...
Ecotourism and Community Development
Economic Impacts of Ecotourism
Ecotourism infrastructures often bring major economic gains to rural areas in many countries. A 2009 study of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Asian Russia by Watson et al., for example, Continue Reading...
2007)." The authors also explain that there is a great deal of interest in the concept of school engagement because it is believed to be influenced by environmental changes (Fredricks et al., 2004; Dotterer et al. 2007). As a result of racial and et Continue Reading...
Community Health Nursing Course DevelopmentPart ACourse OverviewBSN nurses must be prepared to practice and function effectively in a wide range of settings. Community health is considered an integral part of the public health sector. For this reason Continue Reading...
C919Course Title: The Role of the BSN Nurse in Promoting Community HealthPart ABSN Nurses play an undeniably crucial role in efforts to promote and sustain community health. To a large extent, community health happens to be focused on groups, familie Continue Reading...