• Common occupations, unemployment level, and hazards from employment: The common occupations are 21% production, 16% sales and related, 10% management, 9% construction and extraction, 7% installation, maintenance and repair, 6% material moving occupations, 5% education, training, and library occupations (para 6). The unemployment level is 7.5%. The majority of the occupations in the area require great physical labor. Possible risks for this are injuries on the job, strained muscles, or inhaled substances.
• Access to transport; goods, services, grocery stores, and food prices: The town does not currently provide pubic transportation. Most of the stores and services are within walking distance to able bodied people, but to the ill
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23). The child neglect rate is 5.8% (pg. 23). There are no statistics on anima or malnourishment, but the temporary assistance program rate is 1.2% and food stamp eligibility is 20.8% (pg. 23).
• Utilization of programs: The food stamp usage is 20.8% in Smyth County (pg. 23). Temporary assistance programs are being used by 1.2% of the region (pg.23).
• Community lifestyle preventions: Saltville has several signs, posters, and even educational sessions involving driving safety. The medical clinic in Saltville has pamphlets and teaching programs on smoking preventions and substance abuse. Though from random survey I conducted 7/8 people believe that substance abuse is a major problem. When asking several high school students what they thought the biggest problem with their school was Jade Wyatt, senior at Northwood High School, stated, “Drug use a big problem with our community, especially in our schools.”, another student Katelyn Blevins, 10th grader, responded “I would say drug use is a major problem that seems to be constantly ignored in our school, but also health care access. You see so many people that are sick, but they can’t afford to visit the doctor due because they don’t have the financial ability”. A student who wishes to remain anonymous reported the use of drugs in the bathrooms at school, the usage include marijuana and vaping. The neighboring community of Chilhowie has a RU program that helps with substance
Food Stamp is a government-funded program in the United States. This is a program that helps people buy food for their families; in other words, it is a very important program to families living in poverty. It is the nation’s most important program in the fight against hunger. This program was developed in the 1960’s; it is made to improve the nutrition level and food purchasing power of people with low-income. This program is offered to people who cannot afford to buy groceries for their families, regardless of age, color, sex or religion. Food Stamps can only be used to buy food items not hygiene or household items, and it’s offered only on a monthly basis.
These programs may include Welfare, food stamps (SNAP), and government housing projects. According to the authors, the results showed from the analysis of how many families are on food stamps is, in 2011 over 1.5 million households with about 3 million children were surviving on less than $2.00 a day, including a family member in the work force (Edin, Shaefer, 2016). It is amazing that these families are living on so little when on when many people spend more than that before they go to school, or work. For example, grabbing a quick breakfast before work can cost almost $7.00. The authors noted that they researched about a total of 18 families, but only 8 total are featured in the book.
Regional School Unit (RSU) #64 is comprised of an elementary, middle and high school within a small rural community in the town of Corinth, ME. This community is largely supported by agriculture and local business. However, it is about 20 miles from Bangor, ME, the closest city with numerous resources. Unfortunately, this distance restricts Corinth residents with a lack of transportation from having access to these resources. Inadequate knowledge and awareness of health care promotion and prevention methods also have adverse results on community health. Whether the resource be obtaining a pair of glasses or medication from a pharmacy, even the seemingly effortless tasks can present challenges and go to show that members of this community suffer disparity due to their rural location.
Results of safe injection site studies have shown that an expansion may have a greater impact. This may reduce the chance of dangerous encounters between users of these safe injection sites and the public. Children not even out of elementary school, were getting involved in the drug scene. These runaways were a concern to the residents, who witnessed overdoses in the past decade. Over 2,000 lives were lost due to the Downtowns East side’s “drug-fuelled spiral” (MacQueen et al., 2003). Persisting the safe injection site can help in lowering risk behaviors by the drug users of SIS’s and community concerns that are related to public injection of drugs (McKnight et al,. 2007). Overall, SIS’s may have the ability to change the drug users and transform them into potential productive members of society.
The community I decided to research and compose this paper is one from which I live, Kent County Michigan. I gathered data from several different resources such as the Kent County Health Department and Michigan Department of Community Health in order to create a community assessment. The data I collected can be broken down into four different assessment pieces.
Health care professional, patients, families, and policy makers all struggle to understand how health is affected by behavior, economic and social structure and provided the knowledge to improve the health status of individuals and populations. Our health is affected by behaviors, economics, and social structure. Many behaviors and lifestyle patterns affect our health, such as: exposure to violence, vehicular accidents, alcohol, drugs, and infectious agents (Williams/Torrens). According to our textbook (Williams/Torrens), alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use creates several of problems that affect our health and society.
Physical accessibility is a multifaceted problem facing individuals that reside in rural communities as well as urban areas. Closely related to deficiencies in supply and demand, physical accessibility is dependent on a sufficient number of providers to provide sufficient geographic distribution in addition to the ability of individuals to travel to a provider. If a patient is required to travel long distances to seek care then it is less likely that these individuals will readily seek care.
In conclusion, drugs are a major problem in our community and surrounding areas. They can affect your community greatly, in a negative way. Individuals who are infected by this terrible addiction are losing friends, loved ones and ones who want to help them get better. People need to come together to make the community great again, helping those around do good, helping them live a greater
A Wide majority of people with food stamps don’t spend that money on the food. They’ll buy clothes or toys and ruin their opportunity to put that money where it needs to
Now, 56,860 residents in the state, plus those cycled out of parole, will have access to receiving food stamps through programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) amounting to roughly $125 per month. Those receiving the assistance will be monitored to make sure they comply with the conditions of their parole and don’t commit a second offense while receiving assistance.
There is a lot of data that would need to be analyzed in order to fully understand the primary problem. One statistic to start with would be to find out how many people are in need of receiving food stamps. From there, it would be important to know how many of those people participate in the food stamp program, and how many people do not. For those who are eligible to receive benefits but chose not to, it would be important to find out the reason why they do not partake in the program.
Food Stamps originated in 1964 and they are vouchers issued by the government to those on low income. These are exchangeable for food. This program is officially named Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and it provides food vouchers to 47.6 million people or 23 million households. These people receive an average of $133 USD a month from these vouchers. There's another food stamp program specifically for nursing mothers and young children. The Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children provides vouchers, education, and referrals to help feed pregnant women and children up to age six. In 2017 about 7.7 million people received WIC each month. Of those, more than 75 percent were children or infants. The Child Nutrition Program provides free or reduced-cost lunches to 30 million children. These acts of aid support humans so they can achieve basic human needs for themselves and their families. It is the government's obligations to help their people. Another proactive Welfare Program in the US is The Housing Choice Voucher
In the United States the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is regulated and funded by policies made by our elected officials. The authors at the Food Research & Action Center complied the percentages of participants in the SNAP program by state and compared that to the national average. Maine households participating in SNAP is 15% and nationally it is 13% of the population.1 Focusing on our home state, Maine has 104,115 households and 199,689 individuals with SNAP.2 Working in a state with a higher percentage of SNAP participants than nationally, we need to direct our focus on making sure this program works well for those in need. To regulate this program, policies are made to assure the program is reaching its full potential.
Another criticism regarding SNAP is that by providing families or individuals with the means to purchase food, those people are encouraged to depend on the government for life or perhaps it will even create intergenerational dependence. Typically, households who qualify for SNAP utilize it for just 8 to 10 months (“Use the Media to…”). There are restrictions that limit healthy adults without dependents to only three months of food assistance every three years. Another myth that ties in with the dependency concern is the idea that only lazy people who do not want to work receive food assistance. According to the USDA, 42% of recipients are part of a household where someone works and 80% of recipients had a job in the year before or after receiving benefits (“Use the Media to…”). Additionally, it has been estimated that only 75% of the households who would qualify for SNAP actually utilize the program (Ribar & Swann, 2014). It is also important to note that children, the elderly, and people with disabilities make up more than half of the recipients of food assistance (SNAP-Frequently Asked Questions).
She suggest that funding needs to be increase to accommodate the elderly and disabled (Linda, 2014). The second Article called the “Transportation Barriers” Author Cronk informs about the struggles and frustration the elderly and people with disabilities face due to the lack of transportation services available to them. Furthermore, the author tells the story of an elderly man who was taken to the hospital by ambulance. But, on the day of his release from the hospital he had no family nearby and had no way to get home nor had money to pay for a taxi. The hospital was unable to assist him financially to pay for a cab, frustrated the elderly patient told his nurse he would walk eight miles to his home. Cronk informs that in populated communities although many people live near doctors and hospitals they continue to face the issue of poor transportation due to financial struggles. The author states that for those who are disabled riding public transportation becomes a great challenge. In addition to missing important preventive care appointments because they have no reliable access to transportation. Cronk states that the problems were worst among minorities, stating that a high percentage of disabled and elderly patients have missed appointments due to not having accessible transportation. Cronk continues to inform that many times they just wait for medical emergencies to visit a doctor. To