Community Health

This author’s personal perceptions concerning patients facing a lingering terminal illness, have been shaped by over 20 years of critical care nursing experience. Facing death and illness on a daily basis requires self-examination and a high degree of comfort with one’s own mortality, limits and values. Constant exposure to the fragility of life forces respect for the whole person and the people who love them. A general approach to patients who are actively dying is to allow them to define what they want and need during this time. The nurse’s role

In the United States we are very fortunate. For the most part we do not live in fear of disease outbreaks from day to day. Our government along with the Centers for Disease Control and Public Health Departments have managed to have adults and children vaccinated and set up recommendations regarding those vaccinations. Despite all that is done our country allows freedoms. One of these freedoms is to not vaccinate your child from communicable diseases due to personal beliefs. With the worlds populations becoming more mobile, that sets your child up for dangerous encounters; because some countries are not as strict on laws regarding vaccinations and some

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Merriam-Webster defines Public Health as “The art and science dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social science” (Merriam-Webster). Throughout recent history, factors that have seriously threatened human safety whether it be disease, genocide, pollutants, or plague, have been identified as public health concerns by various governments and organizations. These situations are remedied by creating a solution to correct the source of the problem. For example, finding the cure to a fatal disease or shutting down factories that create environmental toxins. One of the most under-recognized public health emergencies in the United States is the violence caused by firearms, and the source of this violence is unregulated gun ownership. The high percentage of gun ownership among American citizens and the amount of injury and death that is associated with it constitutes a public health emergency in The United States of America, which constantly, consistently, and gravely endangers the American people; this violence must be controlled.

Background: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) requires that not-for-profit health agencies identify and prioritize the health needs of the communities they serve and determine approaches to address these concerns [1, 2]. Community and patient engagement in research process provided a structural framework for the identification of the leading health concerns for residents that live in the counties served by Mayo Clinic. This process enables multiple healthcare providers and academic partners to develop appropriate techniques to gain insight directly from the community [1, 3-6].Community health needs assessments (CHNA) emphasize areas that have more prevalent health disparities [4]. The CPER used provided information on

The causes generally fall in two categories infected with the TB bacteria, the first one are those people who immigrate from countries with high TB rates, homeless persons, employees of TB facilities, people living at shelters, hospitals and children less than 5 who had a positive TB test. TB can infect any part of the body but it usually infects the lungs. Classic symptoms include chills, fever, night sweats, cough, fatigue, cough and sometimes the coughing up of blood. Tuberculosis can be fatal if not treated; it can also spread to other parts of the body through the blood stream. TB can cause joint damage, spinal pain, meningitis, liver, kidney problems, cardiac tapenade, and visual

A. Analyze the community health needs assessment in the case study by doing the following:

When I was assigned this Community Health Agent Project I knew I would focus on the problem of individuals living a sedentary lifestyle. I have recently found a great passion for health and fitness; I was eager to research and learn more about how people

In January of 2015 Kanabec County and Pine County Public Health Departments merged into one entity; Kanabec and Pine Community Health Services (KPCHS), as the State revenue is going to start applying funding to larger demographic areas instead of smaller counties.

A community’s health is a reflection of the health experiences of its members (Kaakinen, Coehlo, Steele, Tabacco, & Harmon-Hanson, 2015). Family health nurses have a critical role in improving the health of the community by empowering families to lead a healthful life, as well as facilitating a family’s access to needed resources (Kaakinen et. al., 2015). The purpose of this paper is to discuss the varies roles of family health nurses in my community, as well as the assets their position provides our community. Huntington, the second largest city in the state, is a quaint community located in Cabell County, West Virginia along the banks of the Ohio River (COH, 2016). Huntington’s population of approximately 49,000 people relies on health care and education as its primary sources of revenue (COH, 2016).

“Obesity is a condition that is associated with having excess of body fat, genetic and environmental factors that are difficult to control when dieting.” Also, obesity is one of the leading cause of death in mortality, and mobility. According to World Health Organization, “health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity.” Health has two categories, personal health and community health. “Personal health is the decision that one makes that affects their own health while community health is for a population or a group of people to protect their health rather than an individual.” Based on how personal and community health are defined, obesity is developed because of a person food choice. To add on that, if there are no many resources in the community to get healthy foods, it might lead a person to eat unhealthy foods that are convenient to them. However, in the lecture we learned five determinants of health which are physical environment, built environment, social environment, access to health services, and individual behavior, biology, and genetics. First, individual behavior, biology and genetics has an impact on a person to have obesity. “Genetic factor contributes small to obesity risk and those who have obesity genes do not become over weight.” Second, built environment plays a big role in an individual everyday life. For example, “a person might not choose to bike or walk to the store because there

Public health may mean different things if you ask different people. However, the main definition is, “the health status of a defined group of people, or community, and the actions and conditions that protect and improve the health of the community (2002).” Public health can also be referred to as community health and truly involves the whole community and the issues that surrounds it. There are different health issues depending on the community meaning different assessments and implementations.

Guest parking is complimentary, and an outdoor garden setting allows guests to enjoy the peaceful scenery and colorful flowers when the weather permits. It is especially nice to be able to leave your car and just walk a few short blocks to plenty of neighborhood restaurants.

The roles of community in advancing the health status of the population are varied. While community participation is essential to advancing population health, evidence to support whether community participation directly advances the health status of the population is limited.1,2 It is limited because the role of community is constantly re-formulated to fit the needs of the population it serves.1,2 According to McLeroy et al, community can be defined in four ways: “community as setting, community as target, community as agent, and community as resource.” Due to the numerous ways community can be defined, generalizing the role of community and how it impacts health is difficult.

Which scenario is more suitable for sustaining a healthy community, meeting the needs of the many or the needs of the few? One could reconcile with all for one and one for all. I wonder how often this question haunts the minds of the Omela people. There comes a time in every Omela’s life when one is informed of the dark secret hidden in a small, locked room. Hidden in plain sight is a young, feebile child stripped from his family and freedom, spending treacherous days sitting in a dark, lonely room for the sake of Omela’s happiness and luxuries. The thought of living in a civilization that sacrifices the quality of life for one child to satisfy one’s own pleasure sinks into the pit of my stomach. Some choose to trade in beauty and prosperity for a destiny that is unknown; the knowing strictly belongs to those who have made it out of Omela. I would too choose to leave Omela but not alone and not without a fight. Staying in this town would mean standing amongst a group of people who refuse to stand up for what is good, only to protect the self-centered comfort and vain beauties of life; this is something that I simply will not do.