999 Search Results for Chronic Disease and Women
Health Care (PHC) and Colorectal Cancer
Authorities around the world have expressed the need for development of an incorporated health care system with augmented emphasis on primary health care, and integration of principles and practices of health Continue Reading...
Anorexics, even those who are outgoing and happy, may become withdrawn and non-communicative when they suffer from the disease. Dr. Lucas writes of one of his patients, "She withdrew even more. One evening her mother found her curled up in her close Continue Reading...
Green provides some clear guidelines to assist health education and promotion specialists in the identification and design of health promotion techniques for implementation in health promotion and disease prevention programs. Discuss how five of the Continue Reading...
Combined with the human development index these studies showed that using parameters that affect the standards like education, longevity, and standard of living it is possible to predict the environmental health factors, and find the actual health i Continue Reading...
Improving Healthcare Delivery in Nursing Homes: Focus on Broken Bones
The objective of this study is to focus on health care management issues, problems, and policies in a current organization and specifically that of a nursing home with a focus on Continue Reading...
Pharmaceutical Companies, Intellectual Property, and the Global AIDS Epidemic
For this case study, six questions had been asked. The first one is: Should pharmaceutical companies distribute drugs at low cost in third world countries? What are the pr Continue Reading...
Gout
Rakieh, C & Conaghan, P. (2011). Diagnosis and treatment of gout in primary care.
The Practitioner, 255 (1746):17-20
Gout, once called the 'rich man's disease,' is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis in men over the age of 40. Continue Reading...
Diabetes-related deaths are impacting Oklahoma minority groups at a disproportionate rate. For instance, the age-adjusted death rates are over 200% higher for Native Americans and over 130% higher for blacks compared to whites. Because diabetes is a Continue Reading...
During stage two, if the stress continues, the body adapts to the stressors that it is exposed to. There are changes at different levels take place in order to reduce the effect of the stressor, which indicates they are starving. At this point, the Continue Reading...
Novel CoronavirusThe research study \\\"A Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: A Teaching Case-Study\\\" presents a comprehensive examination of the COVID-19 pandemic, outlining its emergence, spread, and the multifaceted public health response (Bashier et al Continue Reading...
Such things, however, do not appear impossible given the state of science today.
There is one area of concern that science cannot totally resolve, unless it builds a time machine and can go into the future. That is, what are the total ramifications Continue Reading...
Atrial Fibrillation
Simply stated, atrial fibrillation describes a condition in which the human heart beats at an excessively rapid rate that can result in diminished blood flow to the body. While the condition is not typically life-threatening, at Continue Reading...
Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
I --all-natural, all-organic, locally grown/produced diet plus exercise
C --insulin injections
O --reduction in body's challenge to create/absorb insulin
In patients experiencing Type 2 diabetes (P), is the interven Continue Reading...
Margaret Lock and Patricia Kaufert have written an article examining menopause, biologies, and cultures of aging. The authors begin their discussion with acknowledging that menopause is a symbol of the end of menstruation, which was once regarded as Continue Reading...
Gay Serial Killers
Serial killers continue to hold a fascination on the American public. The crimes of this subset of murderers are frequently sexualized in nature, which perhaps adds to the titillation in media coverage. It is worth observing that Continue Reading...
There are remedies (albeit not easy ones for the individuals involved), as suggested by the research. However, and this is very important, the current public health approaches that the Saudi government has taken, as Mabrey et al. (2010) note, have Continue Reading...
Hypertension among African-Americans
Nursing Process and Health Promotion of Groups and Community Theory
Hypertension is very rampant in African-Americans, and health providers link it with three major chronic diseases, which include; stroke, kidne Continue Reading...
Obesity, overweight and underweight all have impacts that are negative on self-esteem of many children and adolescents that if not checked can have long-term effects on the success in lives of these children and their general happiness in the future Continue Reading...
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Type I diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults and results from the body's failure to produce insulin. Type 1 account for 5% to 10% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes (Centers for Disease Control, National Diabetes Continue Reading...
By educating patients on early warning signs of hepatotoxicity, this rare but potentially fatal consequence could be detected early to allow appropriate intervention." (Wright and Vandenberg, 2007) it is extremely critical to understand the nature o Continue Reading...
Osteoporosis
In a healthy adult the skeleton is maintained through a process of complementary bone resorption and deposition (Das & Crockett, 2013). The two cell types responsible for this process are the multinucleated osteoclasts derived from Continue Reading...
Most of the people in that area are still trying to rebuild from that, and they have put their health on the back burner for the time being. They are not as interested in tending to potential problems and going to doctors appointments when their hom Continue Reading...
Health belief model
During the 1950's, the Health Belief model (HBM) was developed from the field of social psychology. The theoretical framework offers an explanation of why individuals are motivated to participate in preventive health behaviors. Continue Reading...
Health Promotion Program for Alzheimer's Patients
The objective of this study is to construct a health promotion program for Alzheimer's Patients. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is "a form of dementia that interferes with a person's intellectual and socia Continue Reading...
The marketing plan strategies will use mass marketing for the marketing campaign. The mass marketing strategy is very advantageous because it will be tailored to reach the large number of potential buyers. Historically, most hospitals in the United Continue Reading...
Career opportunities and job outlook related to service to family and children look favorable in the upcoming years. Several fields offer stable job growth along with unique opportunities to not only showcase specific talents, but help children and f Continue Reading...
Novel CoronavirusThe research study \\\"A Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: A Teaching Case-Study\\\" presents a comprehensive examination of the COVID-19 pandemic, outlining its emergence, spread, and the multifaceted public health response (Bashier et al Continue Reading...
This means that while there are tremendous amounts of promise. The preferred method of embryotic cells is still the most utilized approach. However, in the future this could change dramatically. The reason why is because scientists have been aggress Continue Reading...
In the twenty-first century, women should have easy access to available resources to assist them in their pregnancy. In addition, available technology to detect difficulties during pregnancies is widespread in the medical field; however, disadvantag Continue Reading...
Hisory of Palliatve Care
Palliative Care
Palliative Care Methods
Palliative care entails assisting patients get through pain caused by different diseases. The patient may be ailing from any diseases, be it curable or untreatable. Even patient who Continue Reading...
al, 396). The study is also important because it outlines predictors of dispositional behavior. These include among other things the patients emotional well-being, understanding of their illness, general perception of their health and familial suppo Continue Reading...
Physical Activity in Prison
The effects that prison incarceration has on the health and well-being of inmates are multi-faceted and complex. The prison environment presents stressors not experienced outside of the prison context that can bring about Continue Reading...
Antipsychotic Medication and the Physical Health Problems of the Patient With Mental Illness
More and more attention is now being given to the mental disorders especially in U.S. And due to this increase in attention an increase has also been notice Continue Reading...
What this in essence means is that the patient would not be able to choose his own brands of medication; he must only buy what the committee has recommended, otherwise, he would lose out on his health insurance payments.
A woman who faced a problem Continue Reading...
* The effects on normal aging and metabolism is that after the age of forty, metabolism usually decreases by about 5% every ten years. That does not mean that metabolism cannot be controlled to some extent; it can. Metabolism is loosely defined as Continue Reading...
Alcohol abuse is a condition that is characterized by a pattern of excessive drinking in spite of negative effects resulting from the use of alcohol on an individual's occupational, legal, educational, medical, and/or social life. Alcoholism results Continue Reading...
Obesity in the United States
The extent of the Problem
Obesity as one commentator says, is not just a "matter of aesthetics" but has become a major public health problem in the United States. Similarly, Federal health officials have categorically s Continue Reading...
Psychology of Age and Euthanasia
Aging is inevitable; it happens to all of us and as much as we wish we could, there is simply no way to stop or reverse the aging process. It is defined as the accumulation of changes in an organism or object over a Continue Reading...
Smoking Cessation
Health Belief Model
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2012) smoking harms nearly every organ of the body. It is estimated that there are more than 43 million adults who currently smoke in the Unite Continue Reading...