Health Status Health promotion among diverse populations Health status of a minority group: African-Americans As is the case with all precious commodities, good health is not distributed equally throughout the population. Profound disparities exis Continue Reading...
African-Americans in Louisiana & Type 2 Diabetes Rates The poor will be always with us, we are biblically admonished. And for Americans we might add to this ancient maxim that the African-American poor will be always with us. Despite the many ga Continue Reading...
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...
African-American people from a qualitative perspective. The literature review will provide a brief background on African-American people and leading health problems they face along with a brief inclusion of census data to create a general picture of 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...
healthcare system built dominant European-American cultural values, beliefs, practices. These differ Religion and spirituality have very different meanings, although these terms are essentially both related to a communion with supernatural forces. H Continue Reading...
Healthcare System Practice Guideline Introduce an overview of one healthcare system practice guideline There are numerous areas within health care that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare Continue Reading...
It also represents a series of extremely ingrained economic problems. The African Union proceeds from the OAU's ambition to bring some level of cohesiveness to the fiscal and monetary policies driving the continent. Like the EU and APEC before it, t Continue Reading...
Healthcare Disparity in Georgia HIV infection continues to be a substantial trouble in Bibb County, Georgia. This illness substantially impacts lots of areas and Bibb County shares among the greatest HIV rates in America. One reason Bibb County deal Continue Reading...
Health Promotion: American HIV Prevention in an Era of False Security - an Investigative Study AIDS is one of the most dangerous diseases to affect humankind. AIDS awareness is best-funded and best-taught in the United States of America. This reali Continue Reading...
13-15). Individuals who come to women's or STD clinics may not be representative of the population, and may be more likely to manifest prevalence of the ailment or not to manifest prevalence because of more frequent testing. Secondly, an additional Continue Reading...
Congregational Care in West African Churches in the U.S.IntroductionCongregational Care can be referred to Church\\\'s initiatives in addressing the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the sick, older adults, the physically challenged, and pe Continue Reading...
Flushing and Whitestone Disease Prevention Plan New York is a city that comprises of several different neighborhoods. What makes this city to be distinct are how diverse these areas are, their vast historical account and also the people. However, pro Continue Reading...
Overview Human immunodeficiency virus - HIV continues to be a serious health concern across the world. In essence, HIV brings about harm to the body of an individual by destroying infection fighting white blood cells. Not all persons with HIV end up Continue Reading...
Health Literacy CRITIQUE OF CONCEPT ANALYSIS (HEALTH LITERACY) Significance of Concept to Presenter Health literacy is very important to me because the concept is vital when it comes to health care in general specifically in nursing. It has a gre Continue Reading...
IntroductionThe Center for Promoting Health and Health Equity-Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (CPHHE-REACH) Initiative was created to reduce cardiovascular health disparities and risk factors among African Americans in Omaha, Nebrask Continue Reading...
As the text by Griner & Smith (2006) asserts, "There is a pressing need to enhance the availability and quality of mental health services provided to persons from historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups. Many previous authors have ad Continue Reading...
Migrant Health Problems Understanding the Migrant Health Problem Currently access to health and social services for the majority of migrants is based on their legal status. Needless to say undocumented migrants have little or no access to health c Continue Reading...
Diabetes Education and Prevention · Diabetes is a chronic disease related to the body’s ability to use insulin. · There is Type 1 diabetes which someone is born with and is a lifelong illness. · There is Type 2 diabetes tha Continue Reading...
forgiveness on human health. In its simplest form, the purpose of the study is to evaluate human psychological stress that might constitute a risk factor for heart disease. Further, the study will also evaluate the impact of forgiveness on heart dise Continue Reading...
cultural diversity issue of non-American employees communicating frequently in their own native language creating an environment of sensitivity and bias amongst the non-Hispanic community. Handling Diversity in an Organization The contents of this Continue Reading...
Presidential Campaign The current political campaign has been met with great controversy and division amongst the American People. On the one hand, we have an incumbent president that has led the country through the most tragic time in our history. Continue Reading...
Breast Cancer Treatment Breast cancer is not an illness which can be cured with medication, it is a fatal disease. If not detected at an early stage it is incurable. A famous Chinese proverb states "We cannot control the wind, but we have the power Continue Reading...
Applying Social-Ecological Model Social-Ecological ModelSocial-Ecological Model looks into a comprehensive interplay between individual, community, relationship, and social factors. It provides us with the knowledge of several factors that exposes pe Continue Reading...
The churches play a particularly important role in both the African-American and the Hispanic communities. They have both the charter and the means to assist teens and their families to provide a moral and ethical underpinning to their teachings ab Continue Reading...
Promoting Positive Health Behaviors Evaluating the Every Woman Matters program and other cancer screening programs Cancer rates continue to escalate in the U.S.: cancers of the breast, cervical, prostate, and colon are on the rise and despite impro Continue Reading...
Translational ResearchCurrent Nursing Practice in the Healthcare Setting Requiring ChangeThere are numerous areas within nursing that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare setting, an inven Continue Reading...
Translational ResearchCurrent Nursing Practice in the Healthcare Setting Requiring ChangeThere are numerous areas within nursing that demand change in everyday healthcare practice. More often than not, irrespective of the healthcare setting, an inven Continue Reading...
So who is an American and what an America can or cannot do are questions which are critical to the issue of legalizing immigrants. Does being an American mean you cannot show allegiance to any other country? The images of people raising and waving Continue Reading...
morbidity and mortality data in your state to facilitate planning for your community? Morbidity and mortality data enables health professionals to target which preventable health diseases are particularly acute within a given community, and design Continue Reading...
The chapters outlined the significance of the study, the intended objectives, the hypotheses statements, justification of the study, the research design, and the findings and conclusions. The examination carried out within the sections of this paper Continue Reading...
Allen-Meares, P. & Garvin, C. (Eds.). (2000). The Handbook of Social Work Direct Practice. New York, SAGE. This is not a primary source, but the definition of crisis could be used in the proposal. An assessment of the customary practices utilized by Continue Reading...
REFLECTION ReflectionSummary of Personal Change and New Knowledge AttainedFrom the onset, it would be prudent to note that over the last 8 weeks, I have made observations and gathered knowledge and insights that have adapted my opinions as well as be Continue Reading...
Introduction Without good nutrition, one cannot lead a quality and healthy lifestyle. Quite a number of diseases and health conditions in America and in the rest of the world are caused by poor nutrition. These diseases are known as lifestyle disease Continue Reading...
Imperialism and African Colonization: Imperialism is empire building and occurs when one state is more powerful than the other state's obstacles (such as peoples, geographic obstacles, physical obstacles and technological obstacles) to expansion. Continue Reading...
" This involves coming up with a list of the consequences of reacting to an event (Budman, 1992). This means that they describe what emotions the activating event made them feel. The principles facilitate being rational because they shift focus from Continue Reading...
OBESITY Childhood Obesity Childhood obesity: An epidemiological overview Community and population Childhood obesity is an increasingly serious problem in America and around the world. Obesity in all demographic categories in the U.S. is increasin Continue Reading...
For many, this is program of last resort. The author explains that To be admitted, clients must also have a substance abuse problem and a history of unsuccessful completion of other programs (Program Procedures Manual 1993). Therefore, all of the pr Continue Reading...
HIV patients. Identify and Describe the Aggregate This paper focuses on a particular section of HIV patients - that of men having sex with men, in the United States. There is also an identification and description of the aggregate, its needs and r Continue Reading...
