Critically evaluate how environmental factors impact on the experiences and life events of an adult who you know, and how these factors influence that person’s health, wellbeing and use of support from others.
I am going to discuss an eighty two year old woman who I am going to call Mrs Smith (her name has been changed to protect her identity). Mrs Smith is the middle of five children, who has lived all her live in the South of England. She married at nineteen and had four children, all of whom are now grown up, happily married and with children of their own, giving her ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Mrs Smith’s husband died in 1998 and she has lived on her own ever since. In this essay I am will be drawing on five
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Especially as they grow older and increasingly dependant on others. In order to assess how family relationships affect Mrs Smith, it is important to look at her family background. As a child growing up during World War II, Mrs Smith’s father was away in the navy for most of her formative years (from age 9 to 15) and her mother was the sole carer for her and her siblings. In 1940 Mrs Smith and her siblings were evacuated from their home on the south coast and sent to live with an aunt in a small village outside Bristol. The children had had little contact with their aunt before going to live with her so she was practically a stranger to them and this arrangement, which they were powerless to prevent, had the effect of enforcing their resilience and making them all quite independent characters. Mrs Smith says she remembers returning home after the war and finding it difficult to rebuild relationships with her parents as this would mean giving up her independence. Mrs Smith was married at nineteen and had her first child within a year of her marriage. As she was a housewife she was the main carer for her children and was, according to her eldest daughter, quite a dominant character. As she has grown older, Mrs Smith has found it very difficult to relinquish her dominant role, even though her children are now parents themselves and this has caused some conflict within the family, with
Environmental conditions can directly impact one’s health and safety. Davis explains, that primary prevention through assessments of the home and community are
Since her mother paid her little attention and her brothers and sisters were older and had different interests, Clara often felt ignored or overly childish in this grownup family. In fact, her "childhood became a series of repeated attempts to express her own needs and proclivities, to shake off dependence, and to overcome the neglect and ridicule she felt were so often her lot" (Pryor 1987. p,10).
She tells of the feeling of shame which emerge from not even having a bed throughout her entire childhood (3). She does reassure that she has the security of her family being the only constant in her life, “Close and sweet and loving. Lucky me on my small pallet on the floor” (4). Travelling every summer “We never knew from one day to the next, from one year to the next, where we would go or live or what we would do” (127), her security of her family seemed always there “Having lived in other people’s houses, barns, and in migrant housing in various stages of decay and repair, it felt as though we could make a home out of anything” (99).
Write a report that gives an overview of how the social, economic and cultural environment can impact on the outcomes and life chances of children and young people. A description of the social, economic and cultural factors .
The purpose of this paper is to assess the town of Lusby, Maryland to determine any environmental concerns that could be a potential or real health risk to the community. A windshield survey was conducted by driving around the town to assess the environment, including air, water, and land. The location and surroundings, including manmade and natural, were identified and taken into consideration during the driving tour. Also assessed where the people themselves by observing community vitality and general appearance, social and economic conditions, health resources, social functioning, and attitudes toward health. Insufficiencies will be identified and diagnosed to help the community thrive to maintain or improve health.
This is evident in how the film frames health issues, framing them from a social and environmental perspective. With an ecological model in mind, the film shows that interactions from individuals, to society, to environment can impact health. Furthermore, it shows how ecological and environmental factors can intrinsically be health determinants.
This neighborhood is very culturally diverse and has a wide range of ages. There are both young and older families living in their neighborhood. Some aspects of the community that could affect resident's health are air pollution, aging populations, and noise disturbances. According to Health People 2020 leading health indicator for this population is environmental hazards. Some populations are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards. As a result, health disparities exist. Exposures to environmental
Whenever I saw the flyer and read the options for the essay topics, I knew I needed to share my mother’s story. Like Mildred Loving, my mother is strong, brave, and resourceful. She defied the social norms of her generation and married someone she loved. Although the marriage could not survive the hardships the young couple faced, she gave us a grandson, a son, and a brother whom we all
A person’s health can be affected by many factors such as housing, income and environment. This essay will define and explain the term ‘social determinants of health’, discuss why housing, income and environment are considered social determinants of health and how these determinants can have a negative affect on one’s health.
The most important family value that separates the Morrisons from others and permanently changes all Morrisons’ life, including Kate’s, is the unending desire for knowledge. Great-Grandmother’s thirst for
However, children living in rural areas and urban areas that were near nature were more likely to have stress significantly negatively impact their psychological well-being. Being around high levels of nature was also associated with significantly better physical health (Wells & Evans, 2003). Another study also found results that suggested a higher proportion of green space was associated with significantly better health. However, they also found that there is usually more green space in areas with a higher socioeconomic status. Areas that tended to have the worse impacts on their physical health from having little greenspace were suburban areas (Mitchell & Popham, 2007). A more recent study found similar results, suggesting that lower socioeconomic households were most at risk for lower physical and mental health whenever they were not around green spaces. Suburban residents were most at risk as they were the least likely to be around green spaces compared to rural and urban residents (Berg et. al,
Mothers are great people to have in young children’s lives. Maggie’s and Dee’s mother kills cows for them to have food on the table. She makes sure she can cook and be strong for her daughters. No matter what problem they have, their mama makes sure they are safe. Their Mama and mine share the similarities of how hardworking our mothers are. Since I am the first child, it was just me and my mother in one apartment where she worked two jobs to make a living. Then when my sister came along, my mother went back to college to get a better job. She put us before herself and she was just 30 years old. The mother in “Everyday Use” has a favorite child, and it is Dee. The difference between my mother and Dee’s mother is that my mother did not have a favorite. My mother treated her daughters with equal respect and equal amounts of
In this assignment I will attempt to explain how a persons health and wellbeing can be both negatively and positively impacted on depending on where they live.
In an attempt to protect and make life ‘better’ for his family, David gives up on his daughter: “I'm trying to spare us all a terrible grief" (Edwards, 19). As a result, David never had the chance to see Phoebe and all that she has become, much like adults who focus on their careers in order to make life ‘better’ for their family. But in consequence, they spend less time interacting with their family, creating a distance that is extremely hard to overcome in the future. As American author, Jim Rohn, says “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money but you cannot get more time.” And without time, money is meaningless. Family, whether biological or not, can be filled with love. In Phoebe’s case, she is raised by her surrogate mother, Caroline and later on, her surrogate father, Albert Simpson. But, she still leads a wonderful life, one where she “liked herself and she liked her life; she was happy” (Edwards 390). Phoebe lived an amazing life, with people that love her, yet everything would have been different if she went to the institution. This shows us that family, even an incomplete and unbiological one, can mean a lot. Children do not necessarily need an abundance of fancy toys, they just want someone who can play with them, talk to them and love them; children do not only grow up well if all their materialistic needs are fulfilled, but they do grow up well with love and care from those around them. Therefore, more time should be spent with family rather than at the office. The two families while significantly different, are just that; a family. Although they may be very messed up or untraditional, in the end they are able to work out their conflicts, to come together to form a bigger family. In a similar fashion, as a society, it must be understood that families come in all shapes and sizes, whether or not connected by blood, by race or by
Because of a dangerous illness of her mother, the young neighbour has to leave and couldn't take care of her children anymore. This is why Mamzelle Aurélie, who has never ever has children before, has to keep them.